A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gordon, James (b)
GORDON. (Commander, 1834. f-p., 28; h-p., 9.)
James Gordon (b) was born 5 Aug. 1795.
This officer entered the Navy, 10 Dec. 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Rattler 16, Capt. Alex. Gordon, stationed off the coast of North America, where, until Aug. 1813, he further served with great activity in, among other ships, the Maidstone 36, Capt. Wm. Skipsey, Narcissus 32, Capt. Hon. Geo. Alfred Crofton, and Akbar 50, Capt. Chas. Bullen. He was next employed for upwards of three years in the Vengeur and Queen Charlotte, guard-ships at Portsmouth, and then successively joined the Rochfort and Revenge 74’s, flagships in the Mediterranean of Sir Thos. Fremantle, Sir Graham Moore, and Sir Harry Burrard Neale. While on the latter station he commanded a tender, the Express schooner, from Sept. 1821 until his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 27 June, 1826, and was employed for five months of 1824 at the blockade of Algiers. On the receipt of his commission Mr. Gordon removed to the Medina 20, Capt. Timothy Curtis, in which vessel he returned home and was paid off in 1827. He afterwards served, from 2 April, 1828, until 16 April, 1831, on board the Pearl 20, commanded on the Cork station by Capt. Geo. Chas. Blake. He attained his present rank 6 June, 1834, and has been twice invested with a command in the Coast Guard, first at Fowey, in Cornwall, and next at Whitby, in Yorkshire. The former appointment he held for three, and the other for five, years. He has since been on half-pay.