A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Martin, Nathaniel
MARTIN. (Commander, 1825.)
Nathaniel Martin died in 1847.
This officer entered the Navy, 17 Feb. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Diamond 38, Capt. Sir Rich. John Strachan; under whom, on being removed to the Captain 74, he assisted at the capture, 19 June, 1799, of Rear-Admiral Perreé’s squadron of three frigates and two brigs, and attended, as Midshipman, the expeditions of 1800 to Quiberon and Ferrol. In May, 1802, at which period the Captain, in command of Capt. Chas. Boyles, was at Jamaica, he took a passage home in the Vengeance 74, Capt. Geo. Duff; rejoining Sir R. J. Strachan, on his arrival, in the Donegal 80. Previously to leaving that ship, Mr. Martin was for some time employed in blockading the port of Cadiz, and contributed to the capture, 25 Nov. 1804, of the Spanish frigate Amfitrite of 44 guns. When subsequently with Sir Richard in the Caesar 80, we find him enacting a part in the action off Ferrol 4 Nov. 1805. On 1 July, 1806, he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Triumph 74, Capt. Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy, and again ordered to the West Indies; after cruizing for three or four months on which station, he went back to the Caesar in the capacity last-mentioned, and continued in her (his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant being confirmed 19 March, 1807) under the flags of Rear-Admirals Sir R. J. Strachan, Hon. Robt. Stopford, and Wm. Albany Otway, under the command of Capts. Chas. Richardson and Wm. Granger, until May, 1811. He was in consequence present, during the year 1809, at the destruction of three French frigates near the batteries of Sable d’Olonne, in Lord Cochrane’s attack upon the French shipping in Basque Roads, and in the expedition to the Walcheren. His last appointments were – 3 Oct. 1811, to the Lyra 10, Capt. Robt. Bloye, under whom he saw much active service on the north coast of Spain – 12 Aug. 1812 and 2 Feb. 1813, to the Venerable and Stirling Castle 74’ s, in the latter of which ships (the Venerable had been employed as the Lyra) he escorted Earl Moira to India – 7 Nov. 1814, to the Martin sloop, Capt. Hon. Jas. Arbuthnot, stationed, until Oct. 1815, on the coast of Ireland – 18 Aug. 1818, to the command of the Grecian cutter, in the Channel – and, 26 Sept. 1822, to the Ordinary at Portsmouth. The rank of Commander was conferred on him 27 July, 1825.
He had been left a widower in March, 1820. Agents – Holmes and Folkard.