Royal Naval Biography/Luckraft, William
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WILLIAM LUCKRAFT, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant on the 11th Dec. 1807. Previous to the peace he served in the Sheldrake sloop, Meteor bomb, and Bombay 74, and subsequently in the Spartan and Pyramus frigates, the latter commanded by Captain Francis Newcombe, C.B., at the Leeward Islands. He obtained his present rank on the 27th July, 1825.
This officer married, in 1815, Charlotte, only daughter of J. Camsell, Esq. of H.M. brewery at Weovil, near Gosport; and became a widower in Oct. 1827.