A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Salter, John
SALTER. (Lieut., 1813. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
John Salter entered the Navy, 11 Oct. 1805, as Midshipman, on board the Superb 74, Capts. Rich. Goodwin Keats and Donald M‘Leod; in which ship he fought under the flag of Sir John Thos. Duckworth in the action off St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806, and accompanied, in 1807, the expedition to the Dardanells. Removing, in Jan. 1808, to the Defiance 74, Capt. Hon. Henry Hotham, he served in that ship with a squadron under Rear-Admiral Hon. Robt. Stopford, at the destruction, 24 Feb. 1809, of three French frigates under the batteries of Sable d’Olonne, on the coast of France, after a contest in which the Defiance, added to severe damage experienced in her sails and rigging, sustained a loss of 2 men killed and 25 wounded. After much active service on the north coast of Spain, he followed Capt. Hotham as Master’s Mate,[1] in Sept. 1810, into the Northumberland 74, and on 22 May, 1812, was present in company with the Growler gun-brig, at the destruction, at the entrance of L’Orient, of the French 40 gun frigates L’Arienne and L’Andromache and 16-gun brig Mamelouck; whose united fire, conjointly with that of a heavy battery, killed 5 and wounded 28 of the Northumberland’s people. In the course of the same year we find him joining the Minden 74, Capt. Alex. Skene, and Nisus 38, flag-ship of Hon. R. Stopford, both on the Cape station, where he was nominated, 26 Nov. 1812, Acting-Lieutenant of the Racehorse 18, Capts. Geo. Fred. Rich and Jas. De Rippe. He was confirmed, 26 Oct. 1813, into the Lion 64, Capt. Henderson Bain; and was subsequently appointed – 11 July, 1814, to the Opossum 10, Capt. Thos. Woolrige, with whom he served in the Channel and off the north coast of Spain until sent, in the following Oct., to the Hospital at Plymouth – 9 Jan. 1815, to the Penelope 36, which frigate his health did not permit him to join – and, 29 June, 1821, for a short time, to the Windsor Castle 74, Capt. Chas. Dashwood, lying at Plymouth. He was placed on the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital 30 Jan. 1826.
- ↑ A rating he had attained on board the Defiance in Oct. 1809.