A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Moodie, Donald
MOODIE. (Lieut., 1816. f-p., 7; h-p., 32.)
Donald Moodie entered the Navy, 15 Dec. 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ardent 64, Capt. Jas. Vashon, bearing the flag of Sir Edm. Nagle at Leith. He removed in March, 1809, to the Spitfire sloop, Capt. John Ellis; and after serving for two years and a half in that vessel in the North Sea and Channel, at Quebec, and on the Spanish coast, he became Midshipman, in Sept. 1811, of the America 74, Capt. Josias Rowley, on the Mediterranean station; where, in 1813-14, he witnessed the unsuccessful attack upon Leghorn, the reduction of Santa Maria and the enemy’s forts and defences in the Gulf of Spezia, and the fall of Genoa. Quitting the America in Oct. 1814, he next, until Dec. 1815, served off Ushant and Madeira, and again in the Mediterranean, in the Glasgow 50, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan, and Impregnable 104, flag-ship of Sir Josias Rowley. His commission bears date 9 Dec. 1816. He has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Moodie has been for some time Acting-President of the Government Bank at the Cape of Good Hope. Agent – J. Hinxman.