Royal Naval Biography/Down, Edward Augustus
EDWARD AUGUSTUS DOWN, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1812.]
Was wounded, while serving as master’s mate on board the Excellent 74, Captain Cuthbert Collingwood, at the defeat of the Spanish fleet, off Cape St. Vincent, Feb. 14, 1797. He obtained the rank of Lieutenant Dec. 26, 1798; and was made Commander Jan. 12, 1805. We subsequently find him in the Bittern and Redwing sloops, on the Mediterranean station, where he captured El Verga del Rosario, Spanish privateer of 2 guns and 20 men, Aug. 2, 1807; le Victorieuse, French privateer, of 4 guns and 40 men, Sept. 16, 1811; and a small Neapolitan armed vessel. May 8, 1812. He also assisted at the capture and destruction of a French armed brig, a trabacolo, and two store-houses of wine and oil, in Feb. 1809[1]. His post commission bears date Aug. 12, 1812.
Captain Down married, Dec. 6, 1815, Elizabeth, third daughter of Admiral Philip Patton[2].
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