A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Colman, George
COLMAN. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
George Colman entered the Navy, 1 June, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Cruizer 18, Capt. John Hancock, stationed in the North Sea, where he assisted at the capture, 13 Nov. following, of Le Vengeur privateer, of 14 guns. In Feb. 1806, he removed, as Midshipman, to the Ruby 64, Capts. Hardy and John Draper, employed in the Channel; and while afterwards serving, from June, 1807, to Feb. 1812, in the Racehorse 18, and Cornwallis, alias Akbar, 50, Capts. Wm. Fisher and Henry Drury, aided in taking L’Amiral Ganteaume privateer, of 4 guns, and, as we are informed, cooperated, in the capacity of Master’s Mate, at the reduction of the Isles of France and Java. Having returned home on board the Doris 36, Capt. Wm. Jones Lye, we find Mr. Colman joining, for a few months in 1813, the Ceres 32, flag-ship at Chatham of Rear-Admiral Thos. Surridge; after which he served, on the coasts of Spain and America, in the Dictator troop-ship, Capt. Hon. Geo. Alfred Crofton, Severn 40, Capt. Joseph Nourse, Ruby 64, Commodore A. F. Evans, Morgiana sloop, Capt. David Scott, Dictator again, and Tonnant 80, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane. During his latter attachment to the Dictator , Mr. Colman, who had previously acted as Lieutenant of the Morgiana, took part in the land-hostilities against Washington and Baltimore, as well as in those against New Orleans, where he was wounded. Since the date of his official promotion, 21 Feb. 1815, the subject of this sketch has – with the exception of a brief period, in 1839-40, when he held an appointment in the Coast Guard – been unemployed. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.