Royal Naval Biography/Price, Samuel
SAMUEL PRICE, Esq.
[Captain of 1831.]
Served as midshipman under Captain (now Sir John P.) Beresford; passed his examination, at Plymouth, in May 1812; and was promoted into the Edinburgh 74, Captain the Hon. George H. L. Dundas, on the Mediterranean station, July 3d following. At the close of the war with France we find him proceeding to North America, in the Bacchante frigate, Captain Francis Stanfell. His promotion to the rank of commander took place Sept. 18th, 1815; from which period he remained on half-pay until Sept. 16th, 1828, when he was appointed to the Trinculo of 18 guns, on the Cork station, where he continued until the summer of 1831. His commission as captain bears date June 25th in the latter year.