A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Peace, Richard
PEACE. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 18; h-p., 25.)
Richard Peace was born 25 Sept. 1790. This officer entered the Navy, 6 Feb. 1804, as Midshipman, on board the Dolphin 44, Capt. John Shortland, with whom he continued employed in the Trompeuse 18 and Squirrel 24, on the Irish, African, and Halifax stations, until Nov. 1808. Joining next, in Jan. 1809, the Success 32, Capt. John Ayscough, he commanded a boat belonging to that ship at the reduction of Ischia and Procida, and co-operated in the defence of Sicily against the threatened invasion of Murat. On 30 July, 1809, we find him serving in the boats, as Master’s Mate, at the capture, off Cerigo, of two French privateers, one carrying 9 guns, 4 swivels, and 78 men, the other 1 gun and 20 men. He shortly afterwards commanded a boat, one of two under the orders of Lieut. Geo. Rose Sartorius, at the taking of a ship of 6 guns and 30 men. On 4 April, 1810, he was reported in the highest terms for his conduct at the destruction (by the boats of the Success and Espoir sloop, commanded by the same officer) of several vessels well protected on the beach abreast of Castiglione;[1] and on 25 of the same month he had charge of a boat at the capture of an armed ship and three barks under the castle of Terracina. In the following Oct. he assisted, on the coast of Naples, in destroying 2 gun-boats and 34 sail of troop-ships. He was confirmed a Lieutenant of the Trident 64, Capt. Rich. Budd Vincent, after having acted tor a short time as Mate, 22 April, 1811; and was next, between Dec. of the same year and Oct. 1815, employed, on the Mediterranean, Home, and Barbadoes stations, in the Éclair sloop, Capt. John Bellamy, Trident again, Capt. R. B. Vincent, Minorca 18, Capt. Ralph Randolph Wormeley, Apollo troop-ship, Capt. Anthony Blagrave Valpy, and, as Senior Lieutenant, in the Raven 16, Capt. Edw. Lloyd. His last appointments were, in the capacity last mentioned – 19 Aug. 1818, to the Redwing 18, Capt. Fred. Hunn, stationed, until her return to England in the autumn of 1821, off St. Helena for the purpose of watching Napoleon Buonaparte – and, 18 May, 1827, to the Tweed 28, Capt. Lord Henry John Spencer Churchill, fitting for the Cape of Good Hope, whence he came home in Feb. 1831. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
- ↑ Vide Gaz, 1810, p. 1138.