A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Manico, Peter Smith
MANICO. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 13; h-p., 28.)
Peter Smith Manico entered the Navy, 26 March, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ocean 98, Capt. Rich. Thomas, bearing the flag of Lord Collingwood in the Mediterranean, where he soon attained the rating of Midshipman, and continued to serve, until Nov. 1815, in the Cambrian 40, Capts. Eras. Wm. Fane and Chas. Bullen, Undaunted 38, Capts. Rich. Thomas and Thos. Ussher, Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Pellew, and Undaunted again, Capts. T. Ussher and Chas. Thurlow Smith, of which latter ship he was confirmed a Lieutenant 16 March, 1814, after having for nearly three months acted in that capacity. On 13 Dec. 1810, being at the time in the Cambrian, he witnessed the destruction of a large convoy protected by two batteries in the Mole of Palamos, at which place the British, out of 600 officers and men, who had been employed in the boats of a squadron, sustained a loss of upwards of 200 killed, wounded, and taken prisoners. He was otherwise much engaged in the same ship in co-operation with the patriots on the coast of Catalonia; and, when Lieutenant of the Undaunted, assisted in conveying Napoleon Buonaparte from Frejus to Elba, and was present at the capture of the Tremiti islands. His last appointments were – 6 July, 1821, to the Perseus receivingship off the Tower, Capt. Jas. Couch – and, 13 Jan. 1824, to the Griper discovery-ship, Capt. Geo. Fras. Lyon. In the course of the latter year he joined in a disastrous attempt made to reach Repulse Bay – an enterprise whose harassing and distressing nature nearly ruined the constitutions of all connected with it. He was paid off in Dec. 1824, and has not been since afloat.