Royal Naval Biography/Russel, Robert
ROBERT RUSSEL, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant on the 1st Mar. 1805; and slightly wounded while commanding a sub-division of gun-boats, at the reduction of Flushing, in Aug. 1809. He obtained his present rank, together with an appointment to the Cygnet sloop, Jan. 3d, 1811; and lost that vessel, off Courantyn River, in 1815.