A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Wallace, Thomas
WALLACE. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 12; h-p., 32.)
Thomas Wallace died in 1847.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Hecla bomb, Capt. John Sykes; previously to accompanying whom in the Nautilus sloop to the Mediterranean, he twice, in July and Aug. 1804, assisted at the bombardment of Havre de Grace. Between 1806 and June, 1815, he was employed on the Home, Brazilian, West India, and North American stations, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the Princess of Orange 74, Capt. Joshua Sydney Horton, Aimable 32, Capt. Lord Geo. Stuart, Adamant 50, Capts. John Sykes and Matthew Buckle, Hermes 20, Capt. Hon. Wm. Henry Percy, Shelburne 14, Lieut.-Commanders David Hope and Wm. Hamilton, and Primrose 18, Capt. Chas. Geo. Rodney Phillott. In the Aimable, after escorting the army under Sir Arthur Wellesley from Cork to Portugal, he assisted at the capture, 3 Feb. 1809, of L’Iris French national ship, pierced for 32, but mounting only 24 guns, whose resistance was maintained until she had herself suffered a loss of 2 men killed and 8 wounded, and the Aimable, besides being materially damaged in masts, spars, sails, and rigging, of 2 wounded. He belonged to the Hermes when that vessel, having had 25 of her men killed and 24 wounded in an unsuccessful attack upon Fort Bowyer, Mobile, was set on fire and destroyed to prevent her falling into the hands of the Americans, 15 Sept. 1814. On leaving the Primrose he took up a commission bearing date 8 Feb. 1815. He did not afterwards go afloat.