A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Young, Daniel
YOUNG. (Lieut., 1822. f-p., 9; h-p., 25.)
Daniel Young entered the Navy, 15 Oct. 1813, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Cyane of 32 guns and 171 men, Capts. Thos. Forrest and Gordon Thos. Falcon. In the ensuing Jan. he was in company, off Madeira (he had already attained the rating of Midshipman), with the Venerable 74, at the capture of the French 40-gun frigates Iphigénie and Alcmène with the former of whom the Cyane was for some time alone engaged in a running-fight; and on 20 Feb. 1815, after having visited Quebec, Newfoundland, and Gibraltar, he was captured, simultaneously with the Levant of 20 guns and 131 men, by the U.S. frigate Constitution of 54 guns and 469 men, at the end of a fierce conflict, in which the Cyane, besides being cut to pieces, sustained a loss of 6 killed and 13, including himself, wounded. With his fellow-prisoners, Mr. Young, who, as well as the rest, had been plundered of all he had, was put on shore at Maranham, on the coast of Brazil. On his ultimate return to England he was received, in Oct. 1815, on board the Vengeur 74, Capt. Thos. Alexander, lying at Portsmouth, where he remained until Aug. 1817. During the next three years he was employed in South America in the Tyne 26, Capt. G. T. Falcon; he then, in Nov. 1820, joined the Iphigenia 42, Capt. Hyde Parker, in the Mediterranean; and in Sept. 1821 (nearly three months after he had left the Iphigenia) he was appointed Admiralty-Midshipman of the Severn 50, Coast Blockade-ship, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch. While attached to the Severn he lost his left leg and thigh. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 7 Dec. 1822; and has since been on half-pay.