A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Evans, Thomas (c)
EVANS. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
Thomas Evans (c) was born 5 Oct. 1791.
This officer entered the Navy, 23 May, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Leda 38, Capt. Robt. Honyman; during his attachment to which frigate, he assisted at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope in Jan. 1806; served, as Midshipman, with the troops at the storming of Monte Video in Feb. 1807; attended the ensuing expedition to Copenhagen; and was eventually wrecked, near the entrance of Milford Haven, 31 Jan. 1808. He next, for 20 months, served in the West Indies on board the Cherub and Epervier sloops, Capts. Geo. Ravenshaw, Alex. Nesbitt, Thos. Barclay, and Jas. Pattison Stewart; and while in the latter vessel he contributed, as Master’s Mate, to the capture and destruction of Le Cygne corvette of 18 guns, and two schooners, near St. Pierre, Martinique, 12 and 13 Dec. 1808. From Sept. 1809, until the conclusion of the war (with the exception of two years, in 1812-13, during which he served in the Impétueux, Stately, and Rodney, flag-ships off Lisbon of Vice-Admiral Geo. Martin), Mr. Evans was employed under Sir John Poo Beresford in the Theseus and Poictiers 74’s, and Royal Sovereign yacht. In the boats of the Poictiers he appears to have been for several months very actively engaged up the Tagus. He obtained his commission 2 Feb. 1815; and in the following Aug., after an intermediate servitude in the Caledonia 120, commanded at Plymouth by Sir Arch. Collingwood Dickson, was placed on half-pay. He has not since been employed. Agents – Case and Loudonsack.