The Iris was principally employed in co-operation with the patriots on the north coast of Spain, where Lieutenant Collingwood appears to have been a constant volunteer for boat and shore service; and on many occasions obtained the particular approbation of Captain Sir George Collier, senior officer of the squadron on that station. A sketch of the transactions in which he was engaged in the years 1811, 1812, and 1813, will be found in Vol. II. Part II. pp. 521–532.
In 1813, the Iris, then commanded by Captain H. H. Christian, captured three American letters of marque. In Nov. 1814, Mr. Collingwood was appointed first lieutenant of the Niger 38, Captain Peter Rainier, under whom he served for a short time on the Cape of Good Hope station. In Dec. 1820, he obtained the command of the Kite revenue cruiser, employed on the coast of Ireland, where he continued for the usual period of three years. During this time he had two ribs and his breast bone fractured, was wounded by a pike through the leg, and received two severe contusions on the head, hie was also washed overboard in a heavy gale of wind, and must have perished, all his boats having been previously lost, had not a following sea thrown him on the square-sail brace, to which he clung until assisted in-board. His promotion to the rank of commander took place Jan. 15th, 1828.
This officer married, in May 1822, Ellen second daughter of the late Rev. Samuel Collis, of Fort William, co. Kerry, by whom he has several children. His only surviving sister was the wife of Dr. J. D. Burke, late surgeon of H.M. dockyard at Pembroke, and is now the widow of the Rev. Hugh Taylor.
WILLIAM HARGOOD, Esq.
[Commander.]
Son of Admiral Sir William Hargood, G.C.B., commander-in-chief at Plymouth.
This officer entered the royal navy in 1813; and was made
