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commanders.


WILLIAM HOWARD M‘DOUGALL, Esq.
[Commander.]

Was made a lieutenant on the 9th May 1807; and couxmander Mar. 27th, 1826.



EDWARD REEVES PHILIP MAINWARING, Esq.
[Commander.]

Was made a lieutenant into the Plantagenet 74, on the 11th June, 1807; and continued in that ship, under various captains, until the end of the war with America, in 1815. He was appointed a supernumerary of the Severn 50, Captain William M‘Culloch, commanding the Kentish coast blockade, Nov. 4th, 1818; removed to the Ramillies 74, Captain Edward Brace, at Portsmouth, Aug. 1st, 1821; and promoted to his present rank on the 27th Mar. 1826. He is now an inspecting commander in the coast guard service.



WILLIAM JONES PROWSE, Esq.
[Commander.]

Passed his examination in July 1808; obtained his first commission on the 22d May, 1809; and served under Captain Sir Thomas Staines, in the Hamadryad and Briton frigates, from the spring of 1810 until July 1815. The manner in which those ships were employed has been fully stated in Suppl. Part I. pp. 94–104. Early in 1816, he was appointed to the Spey sloop; and on the 24th Oct., same year, to the Conqueror 74, fitting out for the flag of Rear-Admiral Plampin, commander-in-chief at St. Helena, from whence he returned home with that officer, in Sept. 1820. He obtained his present rank on the 27th Mar. 1826.



EDWARD CHAPPELL, Esq.
[Commander.]

When midshipman of the Kingfisher sloop, Captain R. W. Cribb, assisted in boarding and cutting out the Spanish privateer schooner Isabella la Demos, from under the batteries