North Sea station, Dec. 26, 1799. On the 7th Aug. 1804, being then in the Rambler brig, he attacked a French convoy near Isle Dieu, captured two vessels, and drove the remainder on shore. He was afterwards actively employed in the Childers brig, and Myrtle ship-sloop, until his advancement to post rank, Oct. 21, 1810.
Captain Innes’s lady is a sister to Captain George Sayer, C.B.
Agents.– Messrs. Stilwell.
RICHARD JAMES LAWRENCE O’CONNOR, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1810.]
Nephew to Admiral Sir Edmund Nagle, K.C.B.
This officer was made a Lieutenant in Dec. 1793; and promoted to the rank of Commander, about the latter end of April 1800. In Nov. 1804, he had the misfortune to lose the Hannibal armed ship, that vessel having parted her cables in the Downs, and drifted on shore near Sandown Castle, where she was totally wrecked.
In Oct. 1807, Captain O’Connor obtained the command of the Leveret; and on the 18th of the ensuing month he was tried by a court-martial for the loss of that sloop, near North Yarmouth.
“The Court having carefully and deliberately inquired into the conduct of Captain O’Connor, his officers, and ship’s company, were unanimously of opinion, that the loss of the Leveret, on the 10th Nov., proceeded solely from the zealous perseverance of her commander to assist and see the Waldemaar, a Danish 84, safe into port, the service on which he was previously ordered; and as it appeared that every exertion was made by Captain O’Connor, together with his officers and crew, to save the Leveret after she struck, the Court felt it their duty to severally and respectively acquit them.”
No sooner had this enquiry terminated, than Captain O’Connor was again tried, upon a charge exhibited against him by Rear-Admiral Wells, commander-in-chief at Sheerness, for “having been deficient in his duty on the evening of the 10th Nov. 1807, inasmuch as he did not afford, or cause to be afforded, any assistance to a frigate which he saw on her beam-ends on shore on the Long Sand.” The following will shew the result of this second investigation:
