A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ross, Richard Colmer
ROSS. (Lieutenant, 1812.)
Richard Colmer Ross entered the Navy, about 1789, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Carnatic 74, Capt. Robt. Fanshawe, guard-ship at Plymouth. He served next in the Channel and West Indies in the Bombay Castle and Orion 74’s, both commanded by Capt. John Thos. Duckworth; and during the French revolutionary war he was employed on the Home and East India stations, chiefly in the capacity of Midshipman, in the Cambridge 74, Capt. Boger, Impérieuse 38, Capts. Lord Aug. FitzRoy and Josias Rowley, and Intrepid 64, Capt. Wm. Hargood. After cruizing in the Channel as Acting-Master in the Sea Flower cutter, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Fitzwilliam Owen, and as Midshipman in the Téméraire 98, Capt. Elias Harvey, he was nominated, 21 March, 1805, Sub-Lieutenant of the Woodlark 10, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Innes, under whom, in the following Nov., he was wrecked and taken prisoner on the coast of France. Although promised further promotion, he did not in consequence attain his present rank until 20 Nov. 1812. His last appointment was, 3 Dec. 1828, to the Coast Blockade, in which service he continued for about two years as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.