A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lane, John William
LANE. (Lieutenant, 1828.)
John William Lane entered the Navy 8 June, 1809; and from that period until Dec. 1814 was employed on the Home and American stations in the Agincourt 64, Capt. Wm. Kent, Unicorn 32, Capt. Alex. Robt. Kerr, Amethyst 36, Capt. Mich. Seymour, Venerable 74, Capt. Andw. King, San Domingo 74, Capt. Chas. Gill, Caesar 80, Capt. Chas. Richardson, Namur 74, Capt. Alex. Shippard, Chanticleer 10, Capt. Rich. Spear, Paz schooner, Lieut.-Commander Dan. Pring, Ephira 10, Capt. John Strutt Peyton, and Edinburgh 74, Capts. Robt. Rolles, Rowland Mainwaring, Hon. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dundas, and John Lampen Manley. During his attachment to the Venerable he accompanied the expedition to the Walcheren in Aug. 1809; and when in the Edinburgh he witnessed, in 1813-14, the capture of Port d’Anzo, the unsuccessful attack on Leghorn, the reduction of the fortress of Santa Maria and of the enemy’s other forts and defences in the Gulf of Spezia, and the fall of Genoa. On 17 June, 1815, being then in the Pilot 18, Capt. John Toup Nicolas, Mr. Lane, who had previously served for a short time in the Boyne 98, Capts. Fred. Lewis Maitland and Jas. Brisbane, contributed to the defeat, near Cape Corse, of the French corvette Légère, of 28 guns, who made off at the close of a gallant conflict in which the British vessel sustained a loss, besides being otherwise disabled, of 1 man killed and 15 wounded, and the Frenchman of 22 killed and 79 wounded. He left the Pilot in June, 1816, and, passing his examination in the following Oct., was afterwards, between Jan. 1821 and 13 Dec. 1828, employed, as Admiralty-Midshipman, Acting-Lieutenant, and Admiralty-Mate, in the Medina 20, Capts. Robt. Hockings, the Earl of Huntingdon, B. Anderson, and Patrick Duff Henry Hay, Tweed 24, Capt. Fred. Hunn, Semiramis 42, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Robt. Plampin, Badger 10, Capt. Chas. Crowdy, Despatch 18, Capt. Robt. White Parsons, and Tribune 42, Capt. John Wilson, on the Mediterranean, Cork, Lisbon, and South American stations. He was then made Lieutenant into the Thetis 46, Capt. Arthur Batt Bingham, also in South America, whence he invalided 17 Aug. 1829. He has since been on half-pay.