4 wounded; the Fylla, her first Lieutenant (William Henry Pierson) and one marine slightly wounded.
On the 1st Nov. 1819, Captain Shepheard was appointed to the Brazen 26, in which ship he served on the St. Helena and Irish stations until Jan. 1823.
He married in 1796, Miss Reed, of Portsmouth, and by that lady, who died Dec. 16, 1821, had issue one son and a daughter; the former, a fine young man who had passed his examination, and acted as a lieutenant of the Brazen, was drowned in the Confiance, off the coast of Ireland, in 1822: his daughter is married to Lieutenant Frederick Hire, R.N.
Agent.– J. Dufaur, Esq.
JOHN TANCOCK, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1812.]
We first find this officer serving as a midshipman on board the Crescent frigate. Captain (now Sir James) Saumarez, at the capture of le Reunion of 36 guns, after a close action of 2 hours and 20 minutes, near Cherbourgh, Oct. 20, 1793[1]. In 1795, he followed his able and gallant commander into the Orion 74; and assisted at the capture of three French line-of-battle ships, by the fleet under Lord Bridport, off l’Orient[2]. He also participated in the glorious victory off Cape St. Vincent, Feb. 14, 1797; on which occasion two Spanish first-rates, one 80-gun ship, and one 74, were added to the British navy[3].
Soon after that celebrated event, Mr. Tancock was strongly recommended by Sir James Saumarez to the commander-in-chief, who immediately ordered him to act as junior lieutenant of the Orion, in which capacity he commanded her launch, and gallantly supported Sir Horatio Nelson in his attack upon the Cadiz flotilla, July 3, 1797[4]. He likewise fought under that immortal hero, at the mouth of the Nile, on the ever memorable first of August, 1798[5]. His commission as a lieutenant was confirmed by the admiralty, Mar. 9, 1799.
