A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lamb, James Thomas
LAMB. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., ! 1; h-p., 28.)
James Thomas Lamb entered the Navy, 22 Dec. 1808, as Fst-cl. Vol., on board the Amethyst, of 42 guns and 222 men, Capt. Michael Seymour; and on 6 April, 1809, took part in a severe intermittent action of about four hours, which terminated in the capture, with a loss to the Amethyst of 8 men killed and 37 wounded, of the French frigate Le Niemen of 46 guns and 339 men, of whom 47 were slain and 73 wounded. After attending the expedition to Flushing he accompanied Capt. Seymour into his prize, which had been added to the Navy as a 38-gun frigate. He continued with him in that ship, on the Channel and Irish stations, until the spring of 1812, when he again followed him, as Midshipman, into the Hannibal 74. In March, 1814, being then on a cruize off Cherbourg, Mr. Lamb was present at the capture of the 40-gun frigate Sultane. We then find him proceeding to the West Indies, where, in the course of the same year, he successively joined the Bedford and Venerable 74’s, Capts. Jas. Walker and Geo. Pringle – the latter bearing the flag of Sir Philip Chas. Burham, by whom he was at first sent on a cruize in the Adams tender, and then nominated Acting Sub-Lieutenant of the Grecian schooner. He was made Lieutenant, 1 March, 1815, into the Fairy 18, Capt. Henry Loraine Baker, part of the force present at the ensuing surrender of Guadeloupe, with the despatches relative to which she returned to England; and he was next, from 29 of the following Sept. until superseded at his own request 27 March, 1817, employed on the Irish station in the Helicon and Martin sloops, both commanded by Capt. Andrew Mitchell. His last appointment was, 29 Aug. 1833, to the Coast Guard, in which service he remained until the early part of 1836,
We understand that on one occasion, while in command of a merchant-ship, Lieut. Lamb performed service which was acknowledged by a reward from Lloyd’s.