A Naval Biographical Dictionary/James, Horatio
JAMES. (Commander, 1841. f-p., 24; h-p., 19.)
Horatio James entered the Navy, 28 Dec. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Jason 32, Capts. Wm. Burgundy Champain and Thos. John Cochrane; under the former of whom he assisted at the capture, 13 Oct. 1805, near Tobago, of the Naïade corvette of 16 guns, 4 swivels, and 170 men. Under Capt. Cochrane he was present as Midshipman off the coast of Surinam at the capture, 27 Jan. 1807, of La Favorite French national ship of 29 guns and 150 men; and in the course of the next Dec. he witnessed the surrender of the Danish West India islands. In the autumn of 1808, shortly after his removal with the same Captain to the Ethalion 38, he further served in an action with the French 40-gun frigate Amphitrite, as he did, in 1809, at the reduction of Martinique and the Saintes. The 19 months which immediately preceded his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 21 March, 1812, were employed by Mr. James on the Home and Brazilian stations in the Donegal, Marlborough, and Poictiers 74’s, Capts. Pulteney Malcolm, Graham Moore, and John Poo Beresford, and Foudroyant 80, flagship of Hon. Michael De Courcy. His subsequent appointments were – 21 April, 1813, to the Royal Sovereign 100, Capts. Jas. Bissett and Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, employed in the Channel and Mediterranean – 29 March, 1814, as Senior, to the Saracen sloop, Capts. John Harper and Alex. Dixie, in which he proceeded from the Adriatic to the Chesapeake – 22 Aug. 1815, to the Antelope 50, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral John Harvey in the West Indies – 9 Sept. 1822, to the Eden, Capt. John Lawrence, on particular service – 12 Nov. 1823, to the Surinam 18, Capt. Chas. Crole, again on the West India station – 29 May, 1828, to the Coast Blockade as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye – and 22 July, 1830, 15 June, 1831, and 27 Aug. 1834, to the command of the Surly cutter. Viper schooner, and Tartarus steam-vessel. Commander James, who has not been afloat since he was paid off in the early part of 1837, assumed his present rank 23 Nov. 1841. He is married and has issue. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.