Royal Naval Biography/Buchannan, William
WILLIAM BUCHANNAN, Esq.
[Commander.]
Obtained the rank of lieutenant in Dec. 1805; and served as such under Captain (afterwards Rear-Admiral) Donald Campbell, in the Audacious 74, on the Baltic and North Sea stations. He was next appointed first of the Dictator 64, Captain James Pattison Stewart, who, when reporting the performance of a very dashing exploit on the coast of Norway, in the night of July 6th, 1812, described him as “a most gallant and excellent officer”[1]. Eleven days after this affair, he was advanced to the rank of commander.