Royal Naval Biography/Kempe, Nicholas

by John Marshall

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NICHOLAS KEMPE, Esq.
[Commander.]

Entered the royal navy in 1769; obtained his first commission in 1780; and served as second lieutenant of the Inflexible 64, Captain the Hon. J. Chetwynd, in the last action between Sir Edward Hughes and Mons. de Suffrein, fought off Cuddalore, June 20th, 1783^[1]. He was promoted to the command of the Princess 26, on the Cape of Good Hope station, July 14th, 1797; a»d lastly employed in the Sea-Fencible service, between Flamborough Head and the River Tees. He appears to have died in the summer of 1829.

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1. See Vol. I. Part II last par. of note at p. 425.