A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Woolcock, William (b)
WOOLCOCK. (Lieutenant, 1810. f-p., 12; h-p., 34.)
William Woolcock (b) died, we believe, in 1846. This officer entered the Navy, 16 Sept. 1801, as a Supernumerary, on board the Révolutionnaire 38, Capt. Thos. Twysden, for the purpose of joining the Dryad 36, Capts. Chas. John Moore Mansfield and Robt. Williams, with whom he served on the coast of Ireland from the following Oct. until June, 1802. In Jan. 1804, after having cruized for 10 months in the Channel and Bay of Biscay in the Doris 36, Capts. Rich. Harrison Pearson and Patrick Campbell, he was received on board the Minotaur 74; in which ship he continued employed as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, at first under Capt. Mansfield and next under the flags of Admirals John Child Purvis, Sir Chas. Cotton, and Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, in the Channel, off Cadiz and Lisbon, and in the Baltic, until transferred, in March, 1809, to the Africa 64, Capts. Loftus Otway Bland, John Orkney (Acting), Geo. Fred. Ryves, and John Bastard. In the Minotaur he fought at Trafalgar and accompanied the expedition of 1807 against Copenhagen. He was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Africa 23 June, 1810; was confirmed, 28 Dec. following, into the Amaranthe 18, Capt. Geo. Pringle, on the West India station; and, having invalided thence in 1811, was subsequently, from March until Dec. 1813, and from March, 1814, until Aug. 1815, employed in the Channel and East Indies in the Warspite 74, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood, and Grampus 50, Capt. Francis Augustus Collier. He did not again go afloat.