ROWLAND BEVAN, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1808.]
Was second Lieutenant of the Brunswick 74, commanded by Captain John Harvey, in the great battle of June 1, 1794; on which memorable day that ship had no less than 44 persons killed and 114 wounded. Her damages were as follow: –
Mizen-mast and fore-top-gallant-mast shot away; bowsprit cut two-thirds through (near the gammoning); fore and main lower-masts greatly crippled; all the yards shattered; sails and rigging cut to pieces; eight lower-deck ports unhinged; starboard quarter-gallery displaced; cat-head, together with the best-bower, spare, and stream-anchors torn away (when swinging clear of her opponent, le Vengeur 7); and 23 guns dismounted[1].
The subject of this brief sketch was wounded in the above battle, and shortly afterwards promoted. His post commission bears date June 10, 1808; and he obtained the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital, May 2, 1810.
WILLIAM WARD, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1808.]
This officer’s gallant conduct, as senior Lieutenant of the Pique frigate, at the capture of two French national brigs, for which service he obtained the rank of Commander (July 23, 1806), is noticed at p. 736 of Vol. II. Part II. His post commission bears date June 10, 1808.
Agents.– Messrs. Stilwell.
SIR SAMUEL JOHN BROOKE-PECHELL, Bart.
A Companion of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath.
[Post-Captain of 1808.]
The Pechells were, for a series of generations, established at Montauban, in the province of Languedoc. Their ancestor, Jean Horace Pechel, appears to have been appointed Conseiller à la Chambre de l’Edit, and Maitre des Requestes
- ↑ The Brunswick’s proceedings between May 29 and June 12 1794, are fully detailed in the Naval Chronicle. Vol. iii. pp. 252–257. Captain Harvey’s gallantry and patriotism have been noticed at p. 613 of our first volume.
