A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Longchamp, John
LONGCHAMP. (Commander, 1822. f-p., 34; h-p., 16.)
John Longchamp entered the Navy, 18 July, 1797, as Midshipman, on board L’Espoir sloop, Capt. Henry Inman; continuing to serve with whom in the Belliqueux 64, Andromeda 32, and Desirée 36, he witnessed, in the Andromeda, an attack made on a French squadron in Dunkerque Roads 7 July, 1800, and was present, we believe, in the Desirée in the action off Copenhagen 2 April, 1801. In the course of the latter and the following year he successively removed to the Princess of Orange 74 and Leda 38, both commanded by Capt. Geo. Hope, Acasta 40, Capt. Jas. Athol Wood, and Princess Royal 98, Capts. Jas. Vashon, Herbert Sawyer, and Robt. Carthew Reynolds. He made a voyage, in the Leda, to the Mediterranean; and served on the Channel station, in the Princess Royal, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 5 Dec. 1806. He then joined the Fury bomb, Capt. John Sanderson Gibson, attached to the force in the Baltic, where he was taken prisoner in Oct. 1807; and he was subsequently appointed – 3 Jan. 1809 (three months after he had been exchanged), to the Cordelia 10, Capt. Thos. Fortescue Kennedy, lying in the Downs – 29 May following, to the Puissant 74, guard-ship at Spithead, Capts. Irwin, Hall, and Patterson – 2 Nov. 1811, as Senior, to the Tyrian 10, Capts. Fred. Burgoyne and Augustus Baldwin, employed in the Channel – 18 Nov. 1814, to the Boyne 98, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, on the Irish station – 25 Aug. 1815, to the Iphigenia 36, Capt. Andrew King, with whom he cruized for exactly three months in the North Sea – in July and Oct. 1816, to the command of the Industry and Watchful Revenue-vessels – and 27 March, 1819, to the Coast Guard, in which service he continued to discharge the duties of Inspecting Commander until the early part of 1832. He has since been on half-pay. The commission he at present holds bears date 26 Dec. 1822. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.