A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Seager, John
SEAGER. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 18; h-p., 36.)
John Seager died 7 June, 1846, at Florissant Rennes, near Lausanne, in Switzerland.
This officer entered the Navy, 22 March, 1793, as Midshipman, on board the Dove, Lieut.-Commander Stephen Rains, stationed in the Channel. From Sept. 1794 until Oct. 1796 he was employed in the Mediterranean, part of the time as Master’s Mate, in the Camel store-ship, Capts. Joseph Short and Edw. Rotheram, and Princess Royal 98, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Robt. Linzee; and after having again served for two years and a half in the Channel on board the Royal George 100, flag-ship of Lord Bridport, he was made Lieutenant, 20 April, 1799, into the Savage 16, Capt. Norborne Thompson, stationed in the Downs and North Sea. His succeeding appointments were – 19 June, 1800, to the Proselyte 32, Capt. Geo. Fowke, under whom he was wrecked on a sunken rock off the island of St. Martin, in the West Indies, 4 Sept. 1801 – 24 Aug. 1803 to the Repulse 74, Capt. Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge, in which ship he fought in Sir Robt. Calder’s action 22 July, 1805, and passed the Dardanelles with Sir John Duckworth in 1807 – 12 Aug. 1809, after six months of half-pay, to the Désirée 36, Capt. Arthur Farquhar, attached to the force in the North Sea, where he continued until Dec. 1811 – and, 2 June, 1813, to the San Domingo 74, bearing the flag of Sir John Borlase Warren on the coast of North America. He was promoted to the rank of Commander 15 June, 1814; but did not afterwards, we believe, go afloat. Agents – Messrs. Chard.