A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ingram, Robert
INGRAM. (Commander,1829. f-p., 13; h-p., 36.)
Robert Ingram entered the Navy, 1 Sept. 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Formidable 98, Capt. Jas. Hawkins Whitshed, stationed in the Channel. In the following Nov. he joined the Triton 32, Capt. John Gore, with whom he continued to serve, as Midshipman, in the Medusa 32, on the Home and Mediterranean stations, until July, 1802; witnessing, in the former ship, her capture, 18 Oct. 1799, when in company off Cape Finisterre with the Naiad 38 and Alcmène 32, of the Santa Brigida, a Spanish 36-gun frigate, having on board 1,400,000 dollars, besides a cargo of equal value; and participating, in the Medusa, in an attack made by Lord Nelson during the year 1801 on the Boulogne flotilla. After an intermediate servitude in the Mediterranean on board the Cyclops and Termagant sloops, commanded by various officers, Mr. Ingram rejoined Capt. Gore, in Feb. 1804, in the Medusa, and on 5 Oct. following was present at the further capture of three Spanish frigates laden with treasure, and the destruction of a fourth, off Cape St. Mary. In the course of the following year he successively became Sub-Lieutenant of the Fervent and Rebuff gun-brigs, and also of the Favourite sloop, Capt. John Davie, stationed on the coast of Africa, where we find him displaying an eminent degree of zeal and perseverance in towing and sweeping the latter vessel during an arduous chase of three days, which terminated in the capture, iii Dec. 1805, of Le Général Blanchard, privateer of 16 guns and 130 men.[1] He was made full Lieutenant, 1 Sept. 1806, into the Princess of Orange 74, flagship in the Downs of Vice-Admiral John Holloway; and in May, 1807, after he had been for a short time re-attached to the Favorite, Capt. John Naime, on the Guernsey station, he was appointed to the Mutine sloop, Capt. Hew Steuart, part of the force employed in the ensuing expedition to the Walcheren. Quitting the latter vessel in April, 1808, Mr. Ingram did not again go afloat until July, 1826; on 27 of which month he received an appointment to the Gloucester 50, Capts. Joshua Sydney Horton and H. Steuart, with whom, it appears, he served until advanced, 28 Oct. 1829, to the command of the Aetna bomb. He paid that vessel off 26 May, 1830; and has not since been employed.
Commander Ingram married, 7 Sept. 1806, Miss Wilmot, of Oyster Street, Portsmouth.
- ↑ Vide. Gaz. 1806, p. 448.