A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Potts, John
POTTS. (Lieut., 1808. f-p., 13; h-p., 34.)
John Potts died in 1847.
This officer entered the Navy, 7 Oct. 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Assistance 50, Capt. Rich. Lee in which ship (he had attained the rating of Midshipman) he was wrecked between Dunkerque and Gravelines 29 March, 1802. Joining next, in March, 1803, the Conqueror 74, Capts. Thos. Louis and Israel Pellew, he served, under the latter officer, in Nelson’s pursuit of the combined squadrons to the West Indies and back, and at the battle of Trafalgar. On 7 May, 1808, a few days after his removal to the Hibernia 120, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Cotton at Lisbon, he was made Lieutenant into the Eclipse sloop; and in that vessel, commanded in succession by Capts. Geo. Adey Creyke, Thos. Ball Sulivan, Geo. Henderson, and Henry Lynne, he was employed, on the Channel, East and West India, and Cape of Good Hope stations, until July, 1814. He remained thenceforward on half-pay.