A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Wood, George
WOOD. (Retired Commander, 1842.)
George Wood died 30 Aug. 1846. He was uncle of the present Lieut. Jas. Wood (c), R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1790, as A.B., on board the Dictator 64, Capt. Thos. West,, stationed in the Channel. Being discharged in the course of the same year, he next, in March, 1793, joined the Leviathan 74, Capts. Lord Hugh Seymour and Geo. Hope; in which ship we find him present at the occupation of Toulon and in Lord Howe’s action 1 June, 1794. After serving for upwards of three years under the flag of Lord Hugh Seymour as Midshipman in the Sans Pareil 80, on the Channel station, he was there made Lieutenant, 16 Oct. 1798, into the Chapman armed ship, Capt. Robt. Keen. Ill health caused him, in a few weeks, to be superseded. He was subsequently appointed – in Dec. 1799 and Jan. 1805, to the command of the Adder and Aimewell gun-brigs, employed in the North Sea, on the coast of France, in the Baltic, on the Welsh coast, and in the Downs – 21 Nov. 1807, as Senior, after 18 months of half-pay, to the Namur 74, flag-ship of Admiral Thos. Wells at the Nore – 30 May, 1808, to the Turbulent gun-brig – next, again to the Namur – and 18 April, 1810, and 18 July, 1828, to the command, on the Baltic and Home stations, of the Cheerful and Nightingale cutters. The Adder was twice engaged with the French flotilla; the Turbulent, after a gallant defence of two hours and a half, was captured, while in escort of convoy, by a Danish flotilla, near the south end of Saltholm, 9 June, 1808. Mr. Wood was Senior of the Namur in the expedition of 1809 to the Walcheren; and while in command of the Cheerful he captured a vessel under the batteries of Bruens Haven. He was placed on the Junior List of Retired Commanders 24 Dec. 1830; and on the Senior 28 March, 1842. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.