A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Elvy, George
ELVY. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 8; h-p., 32.)
George Elvy entered the Navy, 27 March, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Minotaur 74, Capts. Chas. John Moore Mansfield and John Barrett. While in that ship, he assisted at the bombardment of Copenhagen in Sept. 1807, served for some time off Lisbon under the flags of Sir Chas. Cotton and Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, and, on 25 July, 1809, was wounded in the head, while employed, as Midshipman, in the boats of a squadron under Capt. Thos. Forrest, in a long and desperate action with a Russian flotilla, near Fredericksham, in the Gulf of Finland, which, although the British lost 60 men in killed and wounded, terminated in the total defeat of the enemy, of whom 87 met a similar fate.[1] Mr. Elvy was afterwards one of the few who were saved from the Minotaur, when she was lost, on the Haak Sands, at the mouth of the Texel, 22 Dec 1810. From the latter period he remained a prisoner of war at Verdun until May, 1814, when, hostilities being at an end, he was allowed to return to England. He obtained his commission 4 March, 1815; but has not since been employed.
Lieut. Elvy, we understand, still suffers acutely from the effects of the wound he received in the Baltic.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1809, p. 1346.