A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dodd, Henry Winship
DODD. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 8; h-p., 34.)
Henry Winship Dodd, born 27 Aug. 1787, is youngest son of the late Robt, Dodd, Esq., a celebrated marine painter. His maternal grandfather, a Master, R.N., died about 1791, at the advanced age of 95.
This officer entered the Navy, 24 July, 1805, as A.B., on board the Dictator 64, Capts. Jas. Macnamara and Donald Campbell, employed blockading the Dutch fleet in the Texel, and afterwards stationed in the Great Belt, where he appears to have been involved, during the Copenhagen expedition, in frequent skirmishes with the Danish gun-boats. Having attained the rating of Midshipman more than two years previously, he rejoined Capt. Macnamara, in March, 1808, on board the Edgar 74; while subsequently detached in the barge belonging to which ship, it was his fortune to be the first medium of communication between the Spanish army in Denmark, under the Marquis de la Romana, and the squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Rich. Goodwin Keats. On 9 Aug. in the same year, immediately previous to the embarkation and escape of those patriot troops from Nyeborg, he served in the Edgar’s launch at the capture, after a gallant resistance, of a Danish brig, the Fama of 18, and her consort, the Salorman cutter of 12 guns. On next accompanying Capt. Macnamara into the Berwick 74, Mr. Dodd assisted, near Barfleur, in causing the self-destruction, 25 March, 1811, of the French 40-gun frigate L’Amazone. After an unemployed interval of 17 months, occasioned by ill health, he was appointed, 7 Jan. 1814, to the Dragon 74, Capt, Robt. Barrie, then in the Chesapeake, where he removed, 8 May following, to the Jaseur 18, Capt. Geo. Edw. Watts, under whom he took part in several warm encounters with Commodore Barney’s flotilla, previous to its destruction on 22 Aug. Since his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 20 Jan. 1815, Mr. Dodd has been unemployed.