Royal Naval Biography/Miller, Simon
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SIMON MILLER, Esq
[Superannuated Rear-Admiral.]
This officer commanded the Experiment, a 44-gun ship armed en flute, at the reduction of Martinique, Guadaloupe, &c. in 1794, and was posted by Sir John Jervis into the Vanguard 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Charles Thompson, in which ship he convoyed home a fleet of merchantmen in 1797. His post commission bears date Nov. 4, 1794. During his continuance in the West Indies he was attacked three times by the yellow fever. He was superannuated August 16, 1814. Mrs. Miller died Dec. 31, 1823, aged 67.
Residence.– Twyford, near Winchester.