A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Pain, Martin
PAIN. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 21; h-p, 23.)
Martin Pain entered the Navy, 4 June, 1803, as Midshipman, on board the Sulphur bomb, Capt. Daniel M‘Leod; and while in that vessel was frequently in action with the enemy’s gun-boats and batteries in the neighbourhood of Boulogne, was, engaged in an attempt to sink two stone-ships at the entrance of the harbour at that place, and united in the bombardment of Granville. After a servitude of nine months in the Utrecht 64, commanded in the Downs by Capts. Fras. Pickmore and Henry Inman, he joined, in April, 1805, the Hebe 32, Capt. Micajah Malbon, with whom he continued actively employed in the Adamant 50, at first off Boulogne, and then on the West India station, until Oct. 1808. In May and June of the latter year we find him acting as Prize-Master of the Spanish schooners Gallina and Magdalena. On quitting the Adamant he became in succession attached to the Princess of Orange 74, Capt. Fras. Beauman, Agincourt 64, Capt. Wm. Keat, and Monmouth 64, Capts. Hyde Parker and Wm. Wilkinson. In the course of 1814 he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Griffon brig, Capt. Geo. Barne Trollope, Midshipman of his former ship the Monmouth, Acting-Lieutenant and Commander of the Viper cutter, and Master’s Mate of the Impregnable 98, Capts. Chas. Adam and John Wentworth Loring. In the Viper he was sent by H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence to Calais with despatches, and was employed by Rear-Admiral Foley in escorting convoys from Deal to St. Helen’s. In the Impregnable, after conveying Marshal Blücher from Boulogne to England, and taking part in the grand naval review held at Spithead, he proceeded to Bordeaux for the purpose of bringing home the first and second battalions of the German Legion. While attached, in the early part of 1815, to the Bombay 74, Capt. Henry Bazely, he cruized among the Western Islands, in company with the Chatham 74 and Larne 20, in quest of two American frigates. He took up in April of that year a commission bearing date 7 of the preceding Feb., and, since 12 May, 1837, has been employed in command of a station in the Coast Guard. Agent – J. Chippendale.