A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Reed, Nehemiah John
REED. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
Nehemiah John Reed entered the Navy, 20 Nov. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Pompée 74, Capt. Rich. Dacres, in which ship he served under the flag of Sir Wm. Sidney Smith at the passage of the Dardanells in Feb. 1807, and, if we mistake not, accompanied the expedition against Copenhagen. After an attachment of a few weeks to the Victory 100, at Chatham, he joined, in March, 1808, the Foudroyant 80, bearing the flag of Sir W. S. Smith on the coast of Brazil; where, in May, 1809, he removed, as Midshipman, to the President 38, Capt. Chas. Marsh Schomberg. He returned to England in the early part of 1810 in the Elizabeth 74, Capt. Hon. Henry Curzon; and between June in that year and Oct. 1815 was employed on the Cape of Good Hope, Mediterranean, and Home stations, in the Astraea of 42 guns and 271 men, Capt. C. M. Schomberg, Galatea 42, Capt. Woodley Losack, Hibernia 120, flag-ship of Sir W. S. Smith, Castilian sloop, Capt. David Braimer, and Towey 24, Capt. Hew Steuart. On 20 May, 1811, being in the Astraea, and in company off Madagascar with the Phoebe and Galatea, frigates similar in force to that ship, and 18-gun brig Racehorse, he assisted – after a long and warmly-contested action with the French 40-gun frigates Renommée, Clorinde, and Néreide, and a loss to the Astraea of 2 killed and 16 wounded – at the capture of the Renommée, and, on 25 of the same month, of the Néreide and the settlement of Tamatave. In Oct. 1815 he took up a commission dated 11 of the preceding March. He has since been on half-pay.