memorable battle of the Nile; and of the Windsor Castle 98, Captain Charles Boyles, in Sir Robert Calder’s action with the combined fleets of France and Spain, July 22d. 1805. We next find him flag-lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Thomas Wells, at Sheerness, where he continued from the end of 1808 until promoted to the rank of commander, May 4th, 1810. The out-pension of Greenwich Hospital was granted to him in Nov. 1827.
PETER PROCTER, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant in 1798; and presented with the Turkish gold medal for his services during the Egyptian campaign, in 1801. He appears to have been first of the Ajax 80, Captain the Hon. Henry Blackwood, when that ship was destroyed by fire, in the night of Feb. 14th, 1807; and we subsequently find him commanding the Thistle schooner, of ten 18-pounder carronades, with a complement of fifty officers, men, and boys; in which vessel he captured the Dutch national corvette Havik, of ten guns, principally long 4-pounders, and fifty-two men, having on board a flag-officer, late lieutenant-governor and commander-in-chief at Batavia, and partly laden with spices and indigo, Feb. 10th, 1810. In the action which took place on this occasion, each party had one man killed; and the Dutch admiral, and seven of his men, Lieutenant Procter, and six of the Thistle’s crew, were wounded.
Mr. Procter was promoted to the rank of commander, whilst serving on the Halifax station, June 2d, 1810; and afterwards appointed to the Post-office packet Prince of Wales, which ship he had the misfortune to lose on the S.W. side of Heneaga, when proceeding with a mail from the Bahamas’ to Jamaica, July 19th, 1811[1]. He subsequently commanded the Lady Wellington packet; and died in Mar. 1826.
- ↑ See Nav. Chron. vol. xxvii, p. 47.
