A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Edwards, Adams
EDWARDS. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 21; h-p., 22.)
Adams Edwards entered the Navy, 6 Nov. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Courageux 74, Capt. Chas. Boyles; on accompanying Whom into the Windsor Castle 98, he bore a part in Sir Robt. Calder’s action, 22 July, 1805, witnessed Sir Sam. Hood’s capture of four French frigates near Rochefort, 25 Sept. 1806, and passed the Dardanells in Feb. 1807. Shortly after his removal to the Amethyst, of 42 guns and 261 men, Capt. Mich. Seymour, he assisted at the capture, 11 Nov. 1808, off L’Orient, of the French frigate La Thetis, of 44 guns and 436 men, including soldiers, which was boarded and carried at the close of a furious contest of more than three hours, in which the British lost 19 men killed and 51 wounded, and the enemy 135 killed and 102 wounded. On 6 April, 1809, he also shared in a severe intermittent action of about four hours, which terminated in the capture, with a loss to the Amethyst of 8 men killed and 37 wounded, of another of the enemy’s frigates, Le Niemen, of 46 guns and 339 men, of whom 47 were slain and 73 wounded. After attending the expedition to Flushing, Mr. Edwards followed Capt. Seymour, in Sept. 1809, into his prize, the Niemen, which had been added to the British Navy as a 38-gun frigate. With the exception of about two months, from April to June 1811, during which we find him officiating as Acting-Lieutenant of the Jalouse 18, Capt. Henry Gage Morris, he continued to serve with Capt. Seymour, latterly in the Hannibal 74, on the Home station, until 1812. He obtained his commission 13 March, 1815; and since 10 March, 1835, has been employed in the Coast Guard.