a tremendous fire from the Principe d’Asturias, Spanish first-rate, which ship, in conjunction with three two-deckers, continued cannonading her, until engaged by the Dreadnought and Thunderer.
The exposed situation of the Revenge occasioned her damages and loss of men to be very severe. Her bowsprit, three lower-masts, maintop-mast, and gaff, were badly wounded; she received nine shot between wind and water; her stern, transoms, and timbers, also several beams, knees, and riders, were much injured; several chain-plates shot away; some of the lower-deck ports destroyed; three guns dismounted; 2 petty-officers and 26 men killed; and her captain, 1 lieutenant, 2 other officers, and 47 men wounded. Her first lieutenant was made commander Dec. 24, 1805.
Captain Hole’s subsequent appointments were, in Dec. 1807, to the Hindostan 50; May 1808, to the Egeria 18; and, April 1813, to the Bacchus 16. In the first named sloop he captured the following Danish armed vessels.
Naesois privateer, of 10 guns and 26 men, off the Scaw, Dec. 21, 1808; Aalborg cutter, of 6 guns and 25 men, bound to Norway, with army clothing. Mar. 2, 1809; and Alvor privateer, of 14 guns and 38 men, in theNorlhSea, Dec. 31, 1811.
Captain Hole obtained post rank Dec. 4, 1813; but continued to command the Bacchus, on the Irish station, until Feb. 1814. He married the daughter of the late William Finch, Esq. barrister-at-law, and master of the Grocer’s Company, by whom he has several children. One of his brothers is a commander in the navy, another a captain of royal marines.
WILLIAM WESCOTT DANIEL, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1813.]
Received his first commission shortly after the death of his uncle. Captain George B. Westcott, who fell, on board the Majestic 74, at the battle of the Nile; and was made commander for his own gallant conduct, as senior lieutenant of the Achille 74, Captain (now Sir Richard) King, at the defeat of the French and Spanish fleets, near Cape Trafalgar.
