A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Meech, Radford Gundry
MEECH. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 10; h-p., 34.)
Radford Gundry Meech entered the Navy, 25 Sept. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Britannia 100, Captain (afterwards Rear-Admiral) the Earl of Northesk, employed at first in the Channel and then in the Mediterranean; where, after enacting a Midshipman’s part in the action off Cape Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805, he removed to the Royal George 100, flag-ship of Sir John Thos. Duckworth, whom he accompanied in Feb. 1807 in the expedition to the Dardanells. During the next three years we find him serving in the North Sea and Baltic, at the Nore, and in the West Indies, on board the Brunswick 74, Capt. Thos. Graves, Owen Glendower 36, Capt. Chas. Selby, Namur 74, Capt. Alex. Shippard, and Neptune 98, Capt. Sir Jas. Athol Wood. In March, 1810, he became Acting-Lieutenant of the Freija frigate, Capt. John Hayes, also in the West Indies; where he remained until three months after his official promotion, which took place 15 June following. His last appointments were – 17 Nov. in the same year, to the Orion 74, Capt. Sir Archibald Collingwood Dickson, with whom he served in the Baltic until Jan. 1813 – and, 19 May, 1815, as Senior, to the Weser 44, Capts. Bartholomew Kent and Dan. Lawrence, on the North American station, whence he returned in the following Nov.