A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Greenaway, Richard
GREENAWAY. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 11 h-p., 33.)
Richard Greenaway entered the Navy, in July, 1803, as Midshipman, on board the Ruby 64, Capt. Fras. Farington Gardner, flag-ship afterwards of the late Sir Edw. Thornbrough, in which he served, on the North Sea, Cadiz, and Lisbon stations, the last three years as Master’s Mate, until transferred in that capacity, in April, 1809, to the Eagle 74, Capt. Chas. Rowley. While under the latter officer he attended the expedition of 1809 to the Walcheren, co-operated in the defence of Cadiz in 1810, assisted at the capture, 27 Nov. 1811, of La Corceyre frigate, carrying 28 guns, together with 170 seamen and 130 soldiers, and beheld the fall, in 1813, of Fiumé, Trieste, and other places in the Adriatic. He also, on 8 June, 1813, partially commanded the boats at the destruction, close to Omago, of a 2-gun battery and the capture of four scuttled vessels loaded with wine;[1] and on 8 of the following month he led the storming party which took and annihilated the fortress of Farasina, mounting 5 long 18-pounders.[2] After further escorting Louis XVIII. to France, Mr. Greenaway, who had been created a Lieutenant 13 Dec. 1809, and had been a long time First of the Eagle, was advanced to the rank of Commander by commission dated 26 May, 1814. He has not since been afloat.
He married, 8 Nov. 1837, Catherine, youngest daughter of the late John Cookson, Esq., of Clapham. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1813, p. 2010.
- ↑ In the preceding April he had commanded the boats of the Eagle, in conjunction with those of the Elizabeth 74 under Lieut. Mitchell Roberts, and had assisted, much to his credit, at the capture of one, and destruction of another of an armed convoy who had run themselves on shore into a tremendous surf, under the protection of a galling fire from a 2-gun battery, two schooners, and three settee gun-boats. – Vide Gaz. 1813, p. 1793.