A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Reid, John
REID. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
John Reid passed his examination 24 Feb. 1836; and after officiating as Mate, on the North America and West India and East India stations, of the Winchester 50 and Agincourt 72, flag-ships of Sir Thos. Harvey and Sir Thos. John Cochrane, was promoted, for service he had performed in China, to the rank of Lieutenant 23 Dec. 1842.[1] Being reappointed to the Agincourt, 15 Feb. 1844, he took command of a gun-boat manned from that ship, and served, 19 Aug. 1845, with the boats of a squadron, carrying altogether 530 officers, seamen, and marines, at the destruction, under Capt. Chas. Talbot, of the piratical settlement of Malloodoo, on the north end of the island of Borneo, where the British, encountering a fierce opposition, sustained a loss of 6 men killed and 15 wounded.[2] He returned to England in 1847 as First-Lieutenant of the Agincourt; and, since 8 June, 1848, has been employed in the same capacity on board the Frolic 16, Capt. Henry Vansittart.