patre, a French national ship of superior force, off the Start Point, June 18th, 1793, on which occasion he appears to have heen wounded whilst leading a division of the boarders. He afterwards served on board the Impregnable 98, flag ship of Rear-Admiral B. Caldwell; and we have heen told by one of his messmates, now a peer of the realm and a flag-officer, that he frequently amused himself and the inmates of the wardroom, by saying “Here am I, George Luke, the son of an ironmonger, who don’t care a d___n for any of you.” He was promoted to the rank of commander in Nov. 1791; subsequently employed in the Sea Fencible service; and granted the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital, Jan. 15th, 1812.
Commander Luke died in 1824; previous to which one of his daughters was married to Captain Dale, of the 84th regiment; and another to G. C. Tucker, LL.D. of Ashburton, co. Devon.
THOMAS DALBY, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant in 1778; a commander in Dec. 1794; and appointed to the Sea-Fencible service, in Hampshire, April 3d, 1798.
HENRY WRAY, Esq.
[Commander.]
Commanded the Advice cutter, on Channel service, during the Spanish armament, in 1790; and the Flora hired armed ship, employed in convoying the trade to and from Ireland in 1794. He obtained the rank of commander in June 1795; and was soon afterwards appointed to the Seagull sloop, in which vessel he continued, on the North Sea and Channel stations, for nearly five years. He died in 1825.
