Royal Naval Biography/Parrey, Edward Iggulden
EDWARD IGGULDEN PARREY, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant into the Liverpool 50, Captain (now Sir Francis A.) Collier, on the East India station, Nov. 28th, 1820; and appointed to the Primrose sloop. Commander T. S. Griffinhoofe, fitting out for the African station, Aug. 9th, 1827. The following is taken from the “Hampshire Telegraph:”
“Letters from Sierra Leone, dated Mar. 2d, 1829, state that his Majesty’s ship Primrose was then lying there, waiting the event of the trial of a galliot (formerly the yacht of Alderman Sir William Curtis), which a pinnace under the command of Lieut. Parrey, first of the Primrose, had captured in the River Cachan, with thirty-eight slaves on board. This active officer had, on the previous day to the capture of the galliot, taken a Portuguese vessel of four guns and forty men, with two hundred and twenty-five slaves, by boarding. This vessel was formerly the Saucy Jack, American privateer. Lieut. Parrey proceeded up the River Noonaz, where he found two schooners, one French and one Spanish, quite ready for slaves. He also found there an English brig, the Lochiel, of Liverpool, and what is remarkable, without a living soul on board, the captain, mate, and all her crew having been discovered below dead. He consequently, with much praiseworthy exertions, brought her down the river, which is a dangerous one, and without a pilot, to the Primrose, which ship carried her to Sierra Leone, where her agent had allotted to the Primrose a salvage of 190l.”
Lieutenant Parrey was advanced to the rank of commander Feb. 10th, 1830.