EDWARD AUGUSTUS DOWN, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1812.]
Was wounded, while serving as master’s mate on board the Excellent 74, Captain Cuthbert Collingwood, at the defeat of the Spanish fleet, off Cape St. Vincent, Feb. 14, 1797. He obtained the rank of Lieutenant Dec. 26, 1798; and was made Commander Jan. 12, 1805. We subsequently find him in the Bittern and Redwing sloops, on the Mediterranean station, where he captured El Verga del Rosario, Spanish privateer of 2 guns and 20 men, Aug. 2, 1807; le Victorieuse, French privateer, of 4 guns and 40 men, Sept. 16, 1811; and a small Neapolitan armed vessel. May 8, 1812. He also assisted at the capture and destruction of a French armed brig, a trabacolo, and two store-houses of wine and oil, in Feb. 1809[1]. His post commission bears date Aug. 12, 1812.
Captain Down married, Dec. 6, 1815, Elizabeth, third daughter of Admiral Philip Patton[2].
Agent.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son.
THOMAS WHINYATES, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1812.]
Was made Lieutenant Sept. 7, 1799; and Commander May 16, 1805. In Mar. 1807, we find him removing from the Zebra, bomb, to the Frolic, a new brig, of 384 tons, fitting at Plymouth, for the West India station.
On the 12th Sept. 1812, Captain Whinyates sailed from the bay of Honduras, with the homeward bound trade under his protection; and on the 18th of the following month, he was captured by the United States’ sloop of war Wasp, Captain Jacob Jones, after an action of 50 minutes, in which 15 of his crew were slain, and himself, all his officers, and 43 men wounded.
The Wasp was a ship of 434 tons, mounting sixteen 32-
