Royal Naval Biography/Clephane, Robert

by John Marshall

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ROBERT CLEPHANE, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1811.]

Brother to the late Major-General David Clephane, M.P. for the shire of Kinross, N.B.

This officer received his first commission early in 1793; and was wounded when serving as senior Lieutenant of the Courageux 74, at the capture of four French line-of-battle ships, by the squadron under Sir Richard J. Strachan, Nov. 4, 1805^[1]: his promotion to the rank of Commander took place Dec. 24 in the same year.

Captain Clephane’s subsequent appointments were, about Mar. 1807, to the Charles hired armed vessel; Oct. following, to the Nautilus a new brig of the largest class; and, April, 1808, to the Acorn, an 18-gun ship-sloop, in which he remained until posted, Feb. 14, 1811. The Charles was principally employed in the Baltic, and the Acorn, on the Mediterranean station^[2].

The subject of this brief sketch died at Inveresk, N.B. in 1827.

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1. See Vol. I. pp. 289 and 570 .
2. See Captains Edward Chetham and John Duff Markland.