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the destruction, 24 Feb. 1809, of three French frigates under the batteries of Sable d’Olonne, on which occasion the Defiance, besides being much cut up in her masts and rigging, sustained a loss of 2 men killed and 25 wounded; after which he actively co-operated with the patriots on the north coast of Spain. In March, 1812, Mr. Coleman removed to the Victory 100, bearing the flag in the Baltic of Sir Jas. Saumarez, where he soon again joined the Defiance, then flag-ship of Sir Geo. Hope. After a short attachment, as a Supernumerary, to the Devonshire 74, Capt. Ross Donnelly, lying at Sheerness, he proceeded, early in 1814, to North America on board the Spencer 74, and on his return to England in June, 1815, found that he had been awarded a Lieutenant’s commission on 16 of the previous February. His succeeding appointments, until promoted to his present rank, 5 Dec. 1837, appear to have been, on the Mediterranean station – 28 Feb. 1824, to the Medina 20, Capt. Chas. Montagu Walker – 4 Oct. 1828, to the Spartiate 76, Capt. Fred. Warren – and, 25 Feb. 1831, and 23 April, 1834, to the St. Vincent 120, and Caledonia 120, flag-ships of Hon. Sir Henry Hotham and Sir Josias Rowley. Commander Coleman, since 1837, has been on half-pay.
He married, 29 Nov. 1843, Eliza Ann, eldest daughter of the late Robt. Bullock, Esq., Commissary-General of H.M. Forces. Agent – J. Hinxman.
COLES. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Cowper Phipps Coles pdssed his examination 1 Aug. 1838; was employed for gome time in the Mediterranean on board the Ganges 84, Capt. Barrington Reynolds; joined, in 1842, the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings; and was appointed, towards the close of 1843, to the Virago steam-vessel, Capt. Geo. Graham Otway, again in the Mediterranean. He obtained his commission, 9 Jan. 1846; and since 30 of the following April has been serving in the St. Vincent 120, on the Home station.
COLES. (Lieutenant, 1810, f-p., 11; h-p., 33.)
Richard Coles entered the Navy, 17 March, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Tonnant 80, Capt. Sir Edw. Pellew, whom, on his hoisting his flag in the Culloden 74, he accompanied to India. He there served (until his return home in Aug. 1810) on board the Blanche and Dédaigneuse frigates, Capts. John Bastard, Wm. Dawson, Geo. Bell, and Wm. Wilbraham, in which latter ship, after holding for 12 months the appointment of Acting-Lieutenant, he was officially promoted, 18 April, 1810. After a residence of two years on shore, occasioned by ill health, Mr. Coles next joined, on the American and Home stations – 6 Aug. 1812, the Melpomene troop-ship, Capts. Gordon Falcon and Robt. Rowley – and, 16 Sept. 1814, the Rover sloop, Capt. Henry Wm. Bruce. He was paid off in Sept. 1815, and has not since been afloat.
COLES. (Lieutenant, 1838.)
William Coles entered the Navy, 7 March, 1822; passed his examination in 1828; obtained his commission 28 June, 1838; was afterwards appointed, 18 March, 1839, and 25 June, 1842, to the Winchester 50, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Harvey, and, as First Lieutenant, to the Albatross 16, Capt. Reginald Yorke, both on the North America and West India stations; and, since 24 Dec. 1844, has been employed in the Coast Guard.
COLLARD. (Rear-Admiral of the Blue, 1841. f-p., 22; h-p,, 41.)
Valentine Collard died at Teddington, Middlesex, 18 March, 1846, aged 76. He was brother of the late Messrs. James and Sampson Collard, the first of whom, a Master’s Mate of the Terpsichore, died, we believe, in 1794, and the other, a Lieutenant of the York 64, was lost about Jan. 1804. He was also first cousin of the present Lieut. Sampson Edwards, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 22 May, 1783, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Shark sloop, commanded by his uncle, Capt. Valentine Edwards, on the Home station, where, until March, 1793, he further served, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the Champion 24, Capt. Sampson Edwards, and Iphigenia 32, Capt. Patrick Sinclair. On subsequently proceeding to the Mediterranean in the St. George 98, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral John Gell, he witnessed the capture of the St. Jago, a rich Spanish galleon, and after being for some time in constant collision with the enemy’s batteries during the occupation of Toulon, and assisting at the capture of La Modeste 36, and two armed tartans, in the port of Genoa, was promoted, 17 Nov. 1793, to a Lieutenancy in the Tartar 28, Capt. Thos. Fras. Fremantle, and immediately sent in charge of a tender to Sardinia, with despatches for Commodore Linzee. Assuming next the command of Le Petit Boston schooner, Mr. Collard actively co-operated in the sieges of St. Fiorenza and Bastia. At the close of a servitude of two years and a half on board L’Eclair 20, commanded by Capt. Robt. Gambler Middleton and others, he joined, 12 Dec. 1796, the Britannia 100, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Chas. Thompson, and was First Lieutenant of that ship on 14 Feb. 1797. Having obtained command, 8 March following, of the Fortune sloop, which he lost near Oporto, 19 July in the same year, Capt. Coleman was subsequently appointed, 6 Feb. 1800, and 30 June, 1804, to the Vestal frigate, armée en flûte, and Railleur sloop. In the former of these vessels he served at the reduction of Genoa, and in the expedition to Egypt; and, while in the Railleur, he was employed, in charge of an explosion-vessel, on the celebrated catamaran mission against the Boulogne flotilla, in Oct. 1804,[1] as also at the capture, 24 April, 1805, of 7 schuyts, carrying altogether 18 guns, 1 brass howitzer, and 168 men. For his meritorious exertions as Superintendent, in 1805-6, of the naval operations in the river Weser, during the occupation of Hanover by an Anglo-Russian army under Lord Cathcart and General Bensigen, including the re-embarkation of the British troops, and his attention in safely convoying the last division of transports to the Downs, Capt. Collard was ultimately, on 13 Oct. 1807, promoted to Post rank. Previously to that event, however, he had been further employed, in command of a small squadron of sloops and gun-brigs, protecting the trade in the Baltic, and had joined in the attack on Copenhagen. We afterwards find Capt. Collard obtaining command – in Nov. 1807, of the Majestic 74, flag-ship on the North Sea station of Rear-Admiral Thos. Macnamara Russell – in the course of 1809, pro tem., of the Gibraltar 80, and Cyane 22 – and next, of the Dreadnought 98, bearing the flag in the Channel of Rear-Admiral Thos. Sotheby. He was finally placed on half-pay in 1810, and, on 23 Nov. 1841, was promoted to Flag rank.
Rear-Admiral Collard, whose intrepid conduct in twice plunging overboard when in command of the Vestal and Railleur, and saving the lives of two of his crew, procured him the appellation of “the animated life-boat,” had been twice married. His first wife having died 5 June, 1821, he wedded, secondly, 25 Sept. 1823, Mary Ann, daughter of Geo. Kempster, Esq. He again became a widower 1 Dec. 1844.
COLLETT. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Charles Frederick Collett died in 1846. This officer entered the Navy 13 Aug. 1824; passed his examination 30 March, 1831; was appointed to the Coast Guard 19 Dec. 1840; and obtained his commission 23 Nov. 1841.
He married, in 1839, Maria Elizabeth, only daughter of the late J. Cantrell, Esq., of Nenagh, co. Tipperary. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1804, p. 1237.
