Royal Naval Biography/Grint, William
WILLIAM GRINT, Esq.
[Commander.]
Served as midshipman on board the Britannia first rate, bearing the flag of Earl Northesk; and appears to have been wounded at the memorable battle of Trafalgar. We next find him master’s mate of the Latona frigate. Captain James Athol Wood, at the capture of Curaçoa, Jan. 1st, 1807[1]. His promotion to the rank of lieutenant took place on the 27th July following. He was third of the Anson frigate. Captain Charles Lydiard, but fortunately absent in a prize, when that ship was totally wrecked in Mount’s Bay, Dec. 28th, 1807[2]. His subsequent appointments were:– about April 1808, to the Vulture sloop, Captain Joseph Pearse; – about Nov. 1810, to the Pompée 74, Captain J. A. Wood; – and Nov. 20th, 1811, to the Zenobia sloop, in which he served under various commanders, until the end of the war. He obtained his present rank on the 7th Dec. 1818.
- ↑ See Vol. I, Part II. note [8] at p. 741.
- ↑ See Nav. Chron. XIX. pp. 55, et seq. and 452, et seq.