A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Galloway, James
GALLOWAY. (Commander, 1806. f-p., 21; h-p., 33.)
James Galloway died 12 Aug. 1846.
This officer entered the Navy, in April, 1793, as A.B., on board the Berwick 74, Capt. Sir John Collins, and during the six following years served, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the Britannia 100, flag-ship of Admiral Wm. Hotham, Tartar 28, Capt. Hon. Chas. Elphinstone, Queen 98, flagship of Sir Hyde Parker, and Ceres 32, Capts. Robt. Waller Otway and R. Pearson. During that period he officiated as Signal-Midshipman of the Britannia in the actions of 14 March and 13 July, 1795; was wrecked in the Tartar, off St. Domingo, in April, 1797; and was on board the Ceres at the evacuation of Port-au-Prince in May, 1798. Being promoted to a Lieutenancy, 24 July, 1799, in the Roebuck 44, Capt. John Buchannan, he attended the ensuing expedition to Holland; after which he joined the Success 32, Capt. Shuldham Peard, and on 13 Feb. 1801 was captured in the Mediterranean by a French squadron under M. Ganteaume. On being released a few days afterwards, he went on board the Hector 74, bearing the flag of Lord Keith; for his services under whom, during the expedition to Egypt, he received the Turkish gold medal. At the cessation of hostilities we find Mr. Galloway paying off, as First-Lieutenant, the Foudroyant 80, to which Ship Lord Keith had transferred his flag. From 1803 until advanced to the rank of Commander, 22 Jan. 1806, he further served with the latter nobleman, as his Flag-Lieutenant, in the Monarch and Edgar 74’s, on the Mediterranean and Home stations. In 1809 he obtained a command in the Sea Fencibles at Killybegs, in Ireland; and he was afterwards appointed – 24 May, 1810, to the Princess guard-ship at Liverpool – 19 Dec. 1812, to the Despatch 18, in which sloop he appears to have been very actively employed at the blockade of Santona and San Sebastian in 1813,[1] and at the destruction of Stonington, in America – in Oct. 1814, pro tem, to the Narcissus 32, off New London – and, in Dec. following, to the Penelope frigate, armée en flûte which he had the misfortune to lose in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 30 April, 1815. He was not afterwards employed.
Commander Galloway obtained the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital 11 Feb. 1830. He married Jane Athol, youngest daughter of Wm. Duthie, Esq., of Cambusbarron, Stirlingshire, N.B.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1840, p. 2601.