Royal Naval Biography/Lynne, Henry
HENRY LYNNE, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made lieutenant in 1794, and appears to have been a passenger on board the Laurel 22, Captain John Charles Woollcombe, when that ship was captured, after a gallant action, near the Mauritius, by the French 40-gun frigate Canonnière, Sept. 12th, 1808. He subsequently commanded the Emma government transport, at Isle Bourbon, where he contributed by his “indefatigable exertions” to the re-establishment of our naval supremacy in the Indian Ocean, as was officially acknowledged. In Dec. 1810, he acted as commander of the Eclipse sloop, at the capture of the Isle of France; and in Feb. following, we find him taking possession of Tamatavé, thereby securing to the British “an unmolested traffic with the fruitful and abundant island of Madagascar.” He obtained his present rank on the 18th of April, 1811, and continued to command the Eclipse (latterly on the West India station) until July, 1814.