A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lambrick, John
LAMBRICK. (Retired Commander, 1837. f-p., 15; h-p., 49.)
John Lambrick entered the Navy, in 1783, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Fairy sloop, Capt. W. Thomas, and was for three years employed in that vessel in the Channel. For several months in 1788, and from 1790 until the commencement of the French revolutionary war, we find him serving on the Newfoundland and Home stations, as A.B. and Midshipman, in the Echo, Capt. Robt. Carthew Reynolds, Termagant, commanded by an officer whose name has escaped us, Nymphe, Capt. Geo. Campbell, and Spider, a small vessel commanded by a Lieutenant. During the next four years Mr. Lambrick was uninterruptedly employed in the Mediterranean on board the Leda, Berwick, and Terrible, all under the orders of Capt. Campbell, Britannia 100, flag-ship of Admiral Hotham, Dolphin, Capt. Rich. Retalick, and Inconstant, Capts. Thos. Fras. Fremantle and G. Oakes. Of the Dolphin he was confirmed a Lieutenant 23 May, 1796. After serving for two years on the North Sea station in the Agamemnon, Capt. Fancourt, he obtained command of the Signal station at the Lizard; and he was lastly, between the years 1801 and 1803, employed off Cadiz and in the Channel on board the Audacious 74, Capt. Shuldham Peard, and Royal Sovereign 100, Capt. Rich. Curry. He became a Retired Commander on the Junior List 26 Nov. 1830, and on the Senior 4 July, 1837.