A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Weld, Daniel
WELD. (Commander, 1825. f-p., 17;[1] h-p., 37.)
Daniel Weld entered the Navy, in Feb. 1793, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Amphitrite frigate, Capt. John Child Purvis; with whom, in the following month, he removed to the Princess Royal 98, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sam. Cranston Goodall. In that ship he served as Midshipman at the occupation of Toulon, at the reduction of Corsica, and in Hotham’s partial actions, 14 March and 13 July, 1795. After he had been for nearly three years employed in the Channel and North Sea, off the port of Cadiz, and again in the Mediterranean, part of the time as Master’s Mate, in the Prince 98, flag-ship of Sir Roger Curtis, London 98, Capt. J. C. Purvis, and Ville de Paris 110, and Queen Charlotte 100, flag-ships of Lords St. Vincent and Keith, he was made Lieutenant, 10 Sept. 1799, into the Leander 50, Capt. Michael Halliday; in which ship, as First-Lieutenant in the Lynx sloop, Capt. Alex. Skene, and in the Zealous 74, Capt. Sam. Hood Linzee, he served continuously in the Mediterranean, North Sea, and Baltic, again off Cadiz, and in the West Indies, until July, 1802. While at Cadiz in the Zealous he was often engaged with the enemy’s flotilla. After he left her he was employed – from March, 1803, until March, 1804, in the Minotaur 74, Capt. Chas. John Moore Mansfield, in the Channel – from April, 1804, until Dec. 1805, in command of a squadron of gun-boats on the coast of Ireland – from Jan. 1806 until Aug. 1808 (with one or two intervals) in the Ocean and Queen 98’s, both commanded by Capt. Fras. Pender, Princess of Orange 74, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral John Holloway, and Valiant 74, Capt. Jas. Young, off Cadiz, and in the Downs, Baltic, and North Sea – from July, 1810, until Sept. 1812, as First-Lieutenant (a rank he had held in the Ocean), in the Banterer sloop and Mermaid 32, armée en flûte, Capts. Chas. Warde and Hon. Wm. Henry Percy, off Lisbon and again off Cadiz – and from 1 April until 19 Aug. 1815, in the Impress Service in London. He was advanced to his present rank “for long and active services,” 27 May, 1825; and was appointed an Inspecting-Commander in the Suffolk Coast Guard District about June, 1827. Since he left that service he has been on half-pay.
Commander Weld was left a widower 24 Jan. 1837.
- ↑ Exclusive of Coast Guard time.