Royal Naval Biography/Camilleri, John
JOSEPH CAMILLERI, Esq.
[Commander.]
We first find serving as midshipman on board the Active frigate. Captain (now Sir James A.) Gordon, stationed in the Adriatic, where he was employed in her boats at the capture and destruction of three gun-vessels and twenty-eight sail of merchantmen, chiefly laden with grain for the French troops at Ragusa, July 27th, 1811[1]. He was made a lieutenant on the 25th Feb. 1815; appointed to the Dover 28, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral (now Sir Robert W.) Otway, on the Leith station) Oct. 20th, 1819; and advanced to the rank of commander Jan. 1st, 1829.