Royal Naval Biography/Grant, James
JAMES GRANT, Esq.
[Commander.]
In 1800 and the two following years, this officer, then a lieutenant, commanded the Lady Nelson, alias “His Majesty’s TinderBox,” a brig of only 60 tons burthen, fitted with sliding keels, and employed on a voyage of discovery in the southern hemisphere. The published narrative of his proceedings includes remarks on the Cape Verd Islands, the Cape of Good Hope, and that part of New Holland opposite to Van Diemen’s Land; various details of his interviews with the natives of New South Wales; observations on the soil, natural productions, &c. of that country; an account of the then state of Falkland Islands; observations on the origin and utility of sliding keels, &c. &c. He obtained his present rank on the 12th Jan. 1805; and a pension for wounds received in action with the enemy, the present amount of which is £150 per annum, Jan. 23d, 1806. We subsequently find him commanding the Raven and Thracian, sloops.