A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Le Mesurier, Edward
LE MESURIER. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 30.)
Edward Le Mesurier entered the Navy, in Sept. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Inconstant 36, Capt. Edw. Stirling Dickson, in which ship and in the Diomede 50, and Victory 100, all flag-ships of Sir Jas. Saumarez, he continued to serve as Midshipman, on the Guernsey station, until April, 1810, He then joined the Euryalus 36, commanded off Toulon by Hon. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dundas, and after a short attachment to the Ville de Paris 110, Capt. John Duff Markland, was received, in March, 1811, on board the Unité 36, Capt. Edwin Henry Chamberlayne; under whom, on 1 of the following May, he assisted, in company with the Pomone 38, and Scout, at the destruction, after a gallant action of an hour and a half in Sagone Bay, of the store-ships Giraffe and Nourrice, each mounting from 20 to 30 guns, and both protected by a 5-gun battery, a martello tower, and a body of about 200 regular troops. On 29 May in the same year we find him further contributing to the capture, at the close of a severe running fight of four hours, of the 26-gun store-ship La Persanne, supposed, until the moment of her capture, to be a fully armed frigate. Removing, in July, 1814, to the Undaunted 38, Capt. Chas. Thurlow Smith, Mr. Le Mesurier was present, in that ship, during the war of 100 days, at the reduction of the Tremiti islands and the cutting out of a convoy from Barletta. On being paid oif in Oct. 1815, he took up a commission dated on 24 of the preceding March. His last appointment was, 19 March, 1816, to the Florida 24, Capts. Wm. Elliott and Chas. Sibthorpe John Hawtayne, stationed in the North Sea, where he was superseded at his own request 16 Oct. 1817. Agent – J. Hinxman.