Royal Naval Biography/Undrell, John
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JOHN UNDRELL, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was wounded, while serving as midshipman on board the Prince of Wales 98, bearing the flag of Sir Robert Calder, in action with the combined fleets of France and Spain, July 22d, 1805. He obtained a lieutenant’s commission in Sept. 1800; served as such under Captains George Pigot, and (now Sir) Edward Codrington, in the Blossom sloop, and Blake 74, on the Lisbon and Mediterranean stations; and subsequently acted as commander of the Jalouse, Rinaldo, and Shark, sloops. He was advanced to the rank of commander on the 13th June, 1815.