from whence he was obliged to return home in consequence of ill health. His next appointment was Mar. 6th, 1813, to the Rippon 74, Captain Sir Christopher Cole. On the 21st Oct. following, he assisted at the capture of the French 44-gun frigate Weser; and in Feb. 1814, he was present at the recapture of a Spanish treasure ship of great value, by the Menelaus frigate, off L’Orient.[1]
In 1821, Lieutenant Crowdy was appointed to the Bulwark 76, flag-ship of the late Sir Benjamin H. Carew, stationed in the river Medway. He was made commander from the Maidstone frigate. Mar. 25th, 1824; appointed to the Badger sloop, on the North Sea station, Dec. 29th, 1825; and advanced to the rank of captain, from half-pay, Jan. 13th, 1834. On the 3d Mar. 1828, a court-martial was held on board the flag-ship at Portsmouth, to try Lieutenant Raymond Evans, of the Badger, on a charge preferred against him by Commander Crowdy, of a breach of part of the 22d article of war, in disobeying his commander’s orders relative to a proposed alteration in berthing the men; when, after a minute investigation of all the circumstances, the court declared that the charge had not been proved, and did adjudge Lieutenant Evans (who had been six weeks under arrest on the charge) to be fully acquitted. On the 11th of the same month. Commander Crowdy was tried by court-martial on charges preferred against him by Lieutenant Evans, for unofficerlike, ungentlemanly, and oppressive conduct to the officers and crew of the Badger. On the 17th, the court reassembled to hear Commander Crowdy’s defence, and agreed, that part of the first charge (striking some of the crew when the ship was in danger, they not exerting themselves), was partly proved, for which the court adjudged him to be admonished.
This officer married, in 1816, the only daughter of the late John C. Lewis, Esq. of Westbury, near Bristol, and niece to Charles Lewis, Esq. of St. Pierre Park, near Chepstow, co. Monmouth, by whom he has had several children.
