A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Jackson, John (a)
JACKSON. (Retired Commander, 1845. f-p., 20; h-p., 30.)
John Jackson (a) entered the Navy, in Aug. 1797, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Veteran 64, Capts. Geo. Gregory, Jas. Robt. Mosse, and Sir Archibald Collingwood Dickson, under the last mentioned of whom he was present in the action off Copenhagen 2 April, 1801. Joining next, in 1802, the Centaur 74, Capt. Bendall Robt. Litthales, he sailed for the West Indies, where he served for upwards of ten years – at first with Capt. Conway Shipley in the Ste. Lucie, Cyane, and Hippomenes – then again with Sir Sam. Hood in the Centaur, as also with Capt. Hon. Geo. Cadogan in the Cyane, and with Sir Alex. Cochrane in the Northumberland 74 – for a short time with Capt. Wm. Hargrove, as Acting Lieutenant (order dated 11 Oct. 1805) in his former ship the Cyane – and finally, as Acting-Lieutenant and Lieutenant, in command, from Jan. 1806, to Oct. 1812, of the Mozambique schooner, and Netley brigantine. He assisted, during the period of his original attachment to the Centaur, at the reduction of Ste. Lucie in June, 1803; and when in command of the Mozambique (in which vessel, mounting 14 guns, he was confirmed a Lieutenant by commission dated 16 June, 1808) he was the gallant cause, although in company with the Lily 18, and Express 4, of the capture, on 21 April in that year, of the Jean Jacques French privateer of 6 guns.[1] His last appointments afloat were – 27 July, 1813, to the command, at Portsmouth, of the Sprightly cutter – 7 Feb. 1814, to the Spencer 74, Capt.Rich. Raggett, off the coast of North America – and 1 Oct. 1814, and 25 Aug. 1815, to the command of the St. Lawrence and Whiting schooners, on the latter and Plymouth stations. He went on half-pay in Oct. 1816, and after having been further employed in the Coast Guard from 28 Jan. 1835, until the close of 1836, was invested, 30 April, 1845, with the rank of Retired Commander. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1808, p. 872.