A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Young, Alexander
YOUNG. (Retired Commander, 1840. f-p., 28; h-p., 25.)
Alexander Young is brother of Retired Commander Geo. Young, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 26 Aug. 1794, as A.B., on board the Bristol, Lieut.-Commander Hutchinson, lying at Chatham; where, in Dec. 1798, nearly eight months after he had been discharged from the latter vessel, he was rated Midshipman of the Vryheid prison-ship, Lieut.-Commander John Maston. In April, 1800, he removed to the America 64, bearing the flag of Sir Wm. Parker at first at Halifax and next in the West Indies. In Dec. of the same year, the America having struck on a rock and been rendered unfit for further service, he was received as a Supernumerary on board the Hind 28, Capt. Joseph Larcom. He afterwards served in the Channel, in the West Indies, and again in the Channel, in the Brunswick 74, Capt. Geo. Hopewell Stephens, Port Mahon 18, Capts. Walter Grosett and Neville, and Impétueux 74, Capt. Thos. Byam Martin; and on 5 Sept. 1805 he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant in the East Indies of the Hindostan 50, Capt. Alex. Eraser. He was confirmed, 30 Aug. 1806, into the St. George 98, Capt. Thos. Bertie, on the Channel station; was employed next, in the Baltic, from June, 1808, until Dec. 1809, as Flag-Lieutenant, in the Vanguard 74 and Stately 64, to the officer last mentioned, who had been promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral; and was appointed afterwards – 26 March, 1810, and 6 Feb. 1812, to the Ardent 64 and Helder 36, Capts. Robt. Honyman and John Serrell, both in the Baltic – 17 May, 1813, for nine months (he had left the Helder in the preceding Jan.) to the Bellona 74, Capt. Geo. M‘Kinley, stationed off Cherbourg and Rochefort – 25 Aug. 1814, to the Beaver 10, Capt. Edw. O’Brien Drury, employed in escorting convoys to the Baltic – 11 Jan. and 26 Aug. 1815, to the Namur and Bulwark 74’s, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Rowley in the river Medway, where he remained, we believe, until 1818 – and in 1827 (after many applications for employment) to the Transport Service, wherein he continued, as Agent Afloat, until wrecked in 1833, in the Wanderer, at the back of the island of Barbadoes. He accepted the rank of Commander on the Retired List 9 July, 1840.