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The Manor of Lackham IV : 19 th & 20 th century owners time in Veteran he allegedly took part in an attack on the French Boulogne flotilla by the ship’s boats 445 ’ However it has also been said that “FW Rooke was Mid of the Sirius…. served in her boats in the attack on the French flotilla off Bologne 446 ” . Sirius was off Boulogne at this time as well, and it is unclear which version of events is correct. In January 1805 Rooke was made Sub-Lieutenant of the gun brig HMS Attentive 447 in the West Indies under Lieutenant John Harris and later that year was in command himself as an Acting Lieutenant. He returned to England in HMS Proselyte 24 448 , Captain John Charles Woolcombe 449 commanding, in the summer of 1805 and was confirmed Lieutenant on 15 th November of that year 450 . On 12 December 1805 he returned to HMS Achille 74 and Capt., now Sir, Richard King in the Channel Fleet. 444 1767-1811. There is a portrait of him in the NMM at Greenwich. 445 O’Byrne, WR (1849) Naval Biographical Dictionary vol Q-R p54 446 The New Navy List (1842) p132 447 Attentive was a 14 gun brig built in Bridport in 1804 and commanded in Jamaica in 1805 by Lt. Harris. She was broken up in 1815 [http://www.ageofnelson.org/MichaelPhillips/info.php?ref=0249] 448 http://www.ageofnelson.org/MichaelPhillips/info.php?ref=1800 Proselyte was purchased in 1804 and escorted 150 merchant ships with 3 regiments of infantry to Barbados under her first commander, Capt. George Sayer. Capt. Woolcombe took command when Sayer went to command HMS Galatea in July 1805 449 Brown, AG (1999) Persons, Animals, Ships and Cannon in the Aubrey-Maturin Sea Novels of Patrick O'Brian p335 His dates are unknown. He was made Commander in 1804 and post rank later that year. In 1808 his HMS Laurel was captured by the Cannoniere 48 450 The New Navy List (1842) p30, O’Byrne, WR (1849) Naval Biographical Dictionary vol Q-R p54 137
The Manor of Lackham IV : 19 th & 20 th century owners In July 1806 Achille was part of Samuel Hood’s squadron which captured the French ship Caefar. The Prize money for this vessel, spread amongst many ships and men only came to a few pounds to a few shillings each 451 . In September the same year the squadron engaged 7 French ships, of which 4 were captured 452 . Sir Samuel Hood reported that he was satisfied “at the Endeavours of Captains Boyles, King, Sir John Gore and Masfield, in getting up with the Enemy, although they could not succeed” 453 . There were no reported causalities on Achille; Sir Samuel lost his right arm. Rooke remained in Achille until 10 October 1806, when he was detached for six months in charge of the signal station at Swanage, returning to Achille on 14 July 1807 454 . For the next 2 years Rooke and Achille were stationed off the coast of Spain and in the Channel. In July - August 1809 Rooke served at the siege of Flushing. In July 1809 the largest British expeditionary force ever assembled weighed anchor off the Kent coast and sailed for the island of Walcheren in the Scheldt estuary. French naval activity at Antwerp had made the Dutch coast “a pistol held at the head of England,” and the government was keen to strike a decisive 451 London Gazette 16131 dated 26 March 1808 p 439 £ s d Seaman 2 nd Class 2 5 11 ½ 3 rd Class 1 10 11 ½ 4 th Class 0 7 11 ¼ 5 th Class 0 1 4 ¼ 452 London Gazette 15962 dated 30 September 1806 pp 1306-7 The captured ships were La Gloire 46, L’Infatigable 44, La Minerve 44 and L’Armide 44. 453 London Gazette 15962 dated 30 September 1806 pp 1307 454 O’Byrne, WR (1849) Naval Biographical Dictionary vol Q-R p54 138
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