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DRAKE
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Built in 1808, Ipswich (Cherokee class).
Wrecked in 1822. |
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- 1810 Eyles MOUNSHER, Channel. She destroyed a large French privateer schooner near Camperdown on 7 March 1810 and captured the TILSIT, of 18 guns and 64 men, on 9 April.
- 1811 Colin CAMPBELL. H. BARWELL.
- 1812 Gregory GRANT, Downs.
- 1815 orders for the West Indies.
- 1816 Jamaica station.
Capt. GRANT was superseded by C. JACKSON in the spring of 1816. - 1817 Out of commission at Portsmouth.
- 1818 Henry SHIFFNER, 01/1818, fitting out for the Newfoundland station.
He removed to the CARNATION in May 1819.
From May until December 1819 DRAKE was commanded by William Nugent GLASCOCK.
Ill health forced him to resign his command. - 1820 Octavius Venables VERNON, 02/1820, Newfoundland.
Charles Adolphus BAKER, 12/1820.
On 20 June 1822 DRAKE was wrecked off Newfoundland.
Many lost their lives, including Capt. BAKER.
Among those saved was the cook, John POWERS, who had received his warrant on board PILOT seven years earlier.
On 17 June 1815 he had been lying on his back under a skylight undergoing amputation of his thigh when he astonished the surgeon by pointing out an error in a hawser being reeved on deck above him.
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