Royal Naval Biography/Lawrence, Daniel
DANIEL LAWRENCE, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1816.]
Entered the navy in 1798; and served as midshipman on board the Cynthia sloop. Captain Micajah Malbon, in the expedition to Holland, Quiberon, Ferrol, and Egypt. His first commission bears date May 19, 1808[1]. We subsequently find him in the Heureux brig, Captain William Coombe, stationed at the Leeward Islands.
On the 28th Nov. 1808, Captain Coombe (who had previously lost a leg in action[2]) received information that seven French vessels, some laden and ready for sea, were lying under the protection of two batteries, in the harbour of Bay Mahaut. Thinking it practicable to cut them out, and having a good pilot, as well as a person to guide his men to the enemy’s works, he immediately resolved upon conducting the enterprise in person, and accordingly prepared three boats
- ↑ Captain M. Malbon died agent for prisoners of war, at Stapleton, in 1813.
- ↑ See Vol. II. Part I. p. 353.