A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Nightingale, David Thomas
NIGHTINGALE. (Lieutenant, 1812. f-p., 10;[1] h-p., 32.)
David Thomas Nightingale died 22 Dec. 1844.
This officer entered the Navy, 14 Sept. 1803, as Ordinary, on board the Magnanime frigate, Capt. John Broughton; and in May, 1804, after having cruized in the Bristol Channel, removed as Midshipman to the Atlas 74, Capts. Wm. Johnstone Hope and Sam. Pym. In March, 1806, on his return from the West Indies, where he had been serving a short time in the Beaulieu 44, Capt. Chas. Ekins, he became attached to the Clyde 38, Capt. Edw. W. C. K. Owen, off Boulogne. Rejoining Capt. Ekins, in Feb. 1807, on board the Defence 74, he witnessed, during Admiral Gambier’s ensuing operations against Copenhagen, the surrender to the Comus 22, Capt. Edm. Heywood, of the Danish frigate Fredericscoarn. After this he visited Lisbon, and then, a second time, the West Indies; on which station he was successively received on board the Belleisle 74, Neptune 98, and Pompée 80, all flagships of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane; by whom, subsequently to the reduction of Martinique, we find him nominated, 18 Dec. 1809, Acting-Lieutenant of the St. Christopher sloop, Capts. Michael Head, Henry Nathaniel Rowe, and Wm. M‘Culloch, part of the force employed at the taking of Guadeloupe in Feb. 1810. On 27 Jan. 1811, at which period he was serving as a Supernumerary in the Dragon 74, flagship of Sir Fras. Laforey, he was placed in command, with the rank of Acting-Sub-Lieutenant, of the Orange schooner. He left that vessel in Jan. 1812; and was next, between the following Sept. (on 21 of which month he was officially advanced to the rank of Lieutenant) and Nov. 1814, employed on the West India, North American, and Home stations, in the Narcissus 32, Capt. John Rich. Lumley, Statira 38, Capt. Hassard Stackpoole, Negro prison-ship, Lieut.-Commander Isaac Strutt, and Favorite 22, Capt. Hon. Jas. Ashley Maude. His last appointment was, 26 Nov. 1823, to the Coast Blockade, in which he served some time as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Ramillies 74, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot.
- ↑ Independently of the time he passed in the Coast Blockade.