A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Simmons, George Valentine
SIMMONS. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 14; h-p., 30.)
George Valentine Simmons entered the Navy, in April, 1803, on board the Salvador del Mundo, Capts. Chas. Henry Lane, Cooke, and John Loring, lying at Portsmouth, where he remained for three years. He then, in May, 1806, joined the Ferret 18, Capt. Hon. Geo. Cadogan, on the West India station; where, in Nov. 1807 (after he had again been for three months employed at Portsmouth as Midshipman in the Salvador del Mondo), he became attached to the Captain 74, Capt. Isaac Wolley, and, in Nov. 1808, to the York 74, Capt. Robt. Barton. In that ship he assisted at the capture of Martinique, the Saintes, and the 74-gun ship D’Haupoult, accompanied the expedition to the Walcheren, and then proceeded to the Mediterranean. From Oct. 1812 until Aug. 1815, when he took up a commission bearing date 10 of the preceding March, he served in South America, on the coast of France, and on the Canadian lakes, as Master’s Mate, in the Hermes 20, Capt. Philip Browne, Warspite 74, Capt. Lord Jas. O’Bryen, and Confiance sloop, Capt. Geo. Downie. His last appointment was, 30 July, 1825, to the Coast Blockade, in which service he continued for upwards of 12 months as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Ramillies 74, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot.