A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Youel, Edward
YOUEL. (Lieutenant, 1812. f-p., 34; h-p., 13.)
Edward Youel entered the Navy, 22 Feb. 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Atlas 98, Capt. Theophilus Jones, attached to the blockading force off Brest. After serving for two years in the North Sea in the Amethyst frigate, Capts. Henry Rich. Glynn and Alex. Campbell, he became, in June, 1804, Midshipman, on the Channel station, of the Defender gun-brig, Lieut.-Commanders Geo. Hayes, John Geo. Hope, Geo. Plowman, and Fred. Wm. Burgoyne; the last mentioned of whom he followed, in July, 1809, into the Transit gun-brig. In her he was for 11 months employed, still in the Channel, and nearly the whole time as Second-Master. We subsequently find him proceeding from Greenwich to Plymouth in command, as Second- Master, of the Trial cutter; from Plymouth to the Isle of France (at the reduction of which he was present), and thence to Portsmouth, as Master’s Mate, in the Actaeon brig and Boadicea 38, both commanded by Lord Viscount Neville; from Portsmouth to Ceylon, in the capacity last named, in the Africaine 38, Capt. Hon. Edw. Rodney; and from Colombo to the Cape of Good Hope in the Alert government schooner, Master-Commander Wm. Young. On 17 July, 1812, he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Racehorse 18, Capts. Jas. De Rippe and Geo. Fred. Rich, stationed off the Isle of France; he was confirmed to that vessel 21 Nov. following; and he was employed next – from 20 Nov. 1813 until 15 Oct. 1815, in the Orestes 14, Capt. Wm. Rich. Smith, in the Channel – from 17 April, 1816, until 13 June, 1817, in the Opossum 10, Capt. Lord John Hay, on the coast of North America – from 16 Feb. 1822 until June, 1834, in the Coast Guard – from June, 1834, until June, 1837, in command of the Harpy Revenue-cruizer – and from June, 1837, until 1839, again in the Coast Guard. He has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Youel married, in Dec. 1830, Miss Goodridge, of Devonport.