her being re-commissioned by Captain Cooke he again joined that officer, through whose recommendation he was appointed one of her lieutenants, by commission dated July 6, 1796.
After cruising for a considerable time on the coasts of France, Portugal, and Spain, la Sybille was ordered to convoy the Scotch brigade from Gibraltar to the Cape of Good Hope. In 1797, we find her escorting a fleet to China, on which occasion she was accompanied by the Fox frigate, and Trident 64, both commanded by officers junior to Captain Cooke. Her subsequent proceedings have been fully described at pp. 584–588 of Vol. I. Part II. It is therefore sufficient to state, that Lieutenant Kennedy, with 10 men, boarded and took possession of one of the the Spanish gun-vessels mentioned at p. 585; and that he commanded her until she was broke up after the attack upon Sombangen, in the island of Majindinao. On the 10th Jan. 1708, when one of the other prizes broke adrift from the Fox and foundered, his little craft was towed under water by la Sybille, and only saved through great promptitude in cutting the hawser.
Being obliged to leave la Sybille, in consequence of ill health, Lieutenant Kennedy returned to England from Canton, a passenger on board the Hon. Company’s ship Warley, in Oct. 1708. His next appointment was, Nov. following, to the Triumph 74, in which he served under Captains William Essington, Thomas Seccombe, Eliab Harvey, and Sir Robert Barlow, on the Channel and Mediterranean stations, until the autumn of 1802.
In Oct. 1803; the subject of this memoir commanded a tender, employed in conveying impressed men from Dublin to Plymouth; and while absent on that service he was applied for by Captain Harvey, to be his first lieutenant, in the Temeraire 98. The very conspicuous part borne by that ship at the glorious battle of Trafalgar, is thus minutely described by Mr. James:–
