(Q24018445)
Statements
KEATS. (English)
0 references
Captain, 1826. f-p., 14; h-p., 28. (English)
0 references
1 reference
Sir R. G. Keats was born 16 Jan. 1757, and entered the Navy 25 Nov. 1780, on borad the Bellona 74, Capt, John Montagu. He served, at the commencement of the American war, at the burning of Norfolk, in an attack upon Hampton, Virginia, and at the capture of New York, Fort Washington, and Rhode Island. As a Lieutenant, a rank he acquired in 1777, he was on board the Ramillies in the action between Keppel and D’Orvilliers 27 July, 1778, also at the defeat of Don Juan de Langara 16 Jan. 1780, and at the ensuing relief of Gibraltar. In Jan. 1782, as a reward for the skilful manner in which he had conducted the naval part of an expedition against the enemy’s small craft at New Brunswick, he was made Commander into the Rhinoceros sloop of war. In Sept. 1783, being at the time in the Bonetta, another sloop, Capt. Keats bore a conspicuous part at the capture of the French 40-gun frigate L’Aigle. Attaining Post-rank in 1789, he successively commanded, between that period and 1807, the Southampton 32, Niger 32, London 98, Galatea 36, Boadicea 38, and, for upwards of six years, the Superb 74. In the Galatea he attended the expedition to Quiberon, and participated in the capture and destruction of several of the enemy’s frigates and other vessels. He was a long time employed, in the Boadicea, in watching the port of Brest, and on 2 July, 1799, commanded part of the force under Rear-Admiral Chas..Morice Pole in an attack on a Spanish squadron in Aix Roads; and in the Superb he acquired.. (English)
Sitelinks
Wikipedia(0 entries)
Wikibooks(0 entries)
Wikinews(0 entries)
Wikiquote(0 entries)
Wikisource(1 entry)
- enwikisource A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Keats, William