A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Goose, William
GOOSE. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 24; h-p., 19.)
William Goose entered the Navy, 29 April, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Vesuvius bomb, Capt. Jas. Lillicrap; as Midshipman of which vessel, and of the Rénomée frigate, Capt. Sir Thos. Livingstone, he appears to have been frequently engaged with the enemy’s flotilla and batteries in the neighbourhood of Boulogne. The Rénomée afterwards, on 4 April, 1806, captured, under Fort Callartes, near Cape de Gata, the Spanish man-of-war brig Vigilante, of 18 guns and 109 men. During the last seven years of the war, Mr. Goose successively served, on the Mediterranean and Home stations, in the Bombay 74, Capt. Wm. Cuming, Perlen 38, Capts. Joseph Swabey Tetley and John Allen, Rodney 74, Capt. Edw. Durnford King, Maes 74, Capt. Henry Raper, Scarborough and Namur 74’s, flagships of Rear-Admirals John Ferrier and Sir Thos. Williams, and Merope 10, Capt. Wm. Benj. Suckling. The Perlen, on 22 Nov. 1811, was pursued, and for several hours endured a close running-fight with a French line-of-battle ship and frigate from Toulon; yet she succeeded in gallantly effecting her escape. Mr. Goose, who attained. his present rank 8 Feb. 1815, was afterwards employed in the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant, from Dec. to Oct 1828, of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye. He has been in command, since 23 Jan. 1835, of a station in the Coast Guard.