Royal Naval Biography/Sanders, Thomas
THOMAS SANDERS, Esq.
[Commander.]
Served as midshipman under Captain (afterwards Rear-Admiral) Percy Fraser in la Nymphe frigate; and lost two of his fingers by the breaking of her spanker-boom, on which he happened to be standing while a smuggling vessel was endeavouring to effect her escape to leeward. He obtained his first commission on the 19th Sept. 1806; served in the Raleigh sloop. Captain George Sayer (b), during the Walcheren expedition; afterwards in the Egmont 74, Captain Joseph Bingham; lastly, as senior lieutenant of the Leander 50, Captain Edward Chetham, C.B. at the battle of Algiers; and was promoted to his present rank, Sept. 16th, 1816.