co. Surrey, the former aged 84, and the latter 83 years: he was the last survivor of the officers wounded on the memorable 12th of April, who were granted pensions; and, at the time of his death, the senior master in the navy.
In Sept. 1782, the Russell, being in a defective state, was put out of commission, and Mr. William Love transferred, pro tempore, to the Prince Edward 60, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Roddam, commander-in-chief at the Nore. He subsequently joined the Salisbury 50, fitting out for the broad pendant of Sir John Jervis, from which ship he was paid off soon after the termination of hostilities, in 1783. During the Dutch armament in 1787, he served on board the Conqueror 74, bearing the flag of Admiral Edwards; and subsequently in the Arrogant of similar force, commanded by Captain John Harvey. At the commencement of the French revolutionary war, we find him again joining the Russell, then under the command of Captain John Willet Payne. His promotion to the rank of lieutenant took place in April 1794; and on that occasion he was appointed to the Falcon sloop, a vessel bearing no other officer of the same rank, commanded by Captain James Bissett, and most actively employed on the Coast of Flanders.
In Oct. 1794, after the expulsion of the British army from Holland, the Falcon was placed under the orders of Rear-Admiral Henry Harvey; and she appears to have been the only vessel out of eleven sail (including eight frigates) which kept company with the flag-ship during a most tempestuous three months’ cruise, on the coast of Norway. At the commencement of this cruise, she was short of provisions and stores, particularly of slops and fuel; she had not been long at sea before her guns were obliged to be thrown overboard, and her pumps kept constantly at work. On her return to port, after contending for so considerable a time against heavy seas and violent gales, she had but a single boat left; and on being docked at Sheerness, she was found in such a state that her preservation appeared truly miraculous: we need scarcely add, that the sufferings of her officers and crew were extreme, both from cold and privation, the
