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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dabine, Thomas Dymock Jones

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​DABINE. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 41; h-p., 6.)
Thomas Dymock Jones Dabine was born at Glastonbury, co. Somerset.
This officer entered the Navy 29 Oct. 1800, as L.M., on board the Russell 74, Capts. Herbert Sawyer and Wm. Cuming, one of Lord Nelson’s victorious fleet in the battle off Copenhagen, 2 April, 1801; after which he joined the Puissant 74, guard-ship at Spithead, and became, 11 June, 1804, Midshipman of the Princess Royal 98, Capts. H. Sawyer and Robt. Carthew Reynolds, employed on the Home station. Removing, as Master’s Mate, in April, 1807, to the Procris 18, Capts. Eras. Beauman and Jas. Murray Gordon, he attended the expedition against Copenhagen under Lord Gambier, and subsequently proceeded to the East Indies, where he passed his examination in May, 1809, and was promoted, from his old ship the Russell, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Wm. O’Brien Drury, to the Acting First-Lieutenancy, 25 Sept. following, of the Samarang 20, Capt. Rich. Spencer. After assisting, 19 Feb. 1810, at the capture of Amboyna, Mr. Dabine was transferred to the scp (afterwards Akbar) 50, Capts. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild and Henry Drury, in time to command a detachment of seamen at the reduction of the Mauritius, and further aid at the taking of Java; off which island he captured, 21 Sept. 1811, with three of the Akbar’s boats under his orders, the French schooner Marie, carrying 2 twelve-pounder carronades, 24 stand of arms, and 12 men. His commission as Lieutenant being confirmed 8 May, 1812, he was afterwards, until placed on half-pay, in Oct. 1816, appointed – 1 Nov. 1812, to the Raven 16, Capts. Geo. Gustavus Lennock and Edw. Lloyd, in the North Sea – 11 May, 1815, to the command of the Telegraph Station at New Cross – and, 13 Sept. 1815, and 11 Aug. 1816, to the Esk 20, Capt. G. G. Lennock, and Royalist 16, Capt. Geo. Bennet Allen, on the Jamaica station. Since Sept. 1820, Lieut. Dabine has been almost uninterruptedly employed in the Coast Guard.
He married Miss F. Carpenter, of Bridport, co. Dorset, and has six children. Agents – Messrs. Ommauney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dacres, James Richard (b)

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​DACRES. (Commander, 1841.)
James Richard Dacres entered the Royal Naval College, 5 Feb. 1824, and, embarking in Nov. 1825, served, as Midshipman, in the Druid and Forte frigates. He passed his examination in June, 1830; was subsequently employed, as Mate, in the Undaunted 46, Capt. Edw. Harvey, at the Cape of Good Hope, and St. Vincent 120, Capt. Sir Humphrey Fleming Senhouse, in the Mediterranean; and obtained his first commission 3 June, 1833. He was next, after officiating for a short time as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the last-mentioned ship, appointed in succession – 1 Sept. 1833, to the Rover 18, Capt. Sir Geo. Young, on the same station – 5 Dec. 1834, to the Pelican 16, Capt. Brunswick Popham, off the coast of Africa – and 31 Oct. 1840, to the Vernon 50, Capt. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave, again in the Mediterranean. He attained his present rank 23 Nov. 1841; and since 26 Nov. 1845, has been in command of the Nimrod 20, on the coast of Africa.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Zimmermann, Pierre

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Zimmermann, Agnes

​ZIMMERMANN, Agnes, pianist and composer, though born at Cologne, July 5, 1847, came to England very early, and at 9 became a student at the Royal Academy of Music, under Cipriani Potter and Steggall. Later she learnt from Pauer and Sir George Macfarren. Though occasionally playing outside the Academy, Miss Zimmermann did not relax her studies, and her works were often heard at the Royal Academy Students' concerts. In 1860 and 62 she obtained the King's Scholarship, and on Dec. 5, 1863, made her first public appearance at the Crystal Palace in two movements of Beethoven's E♭ Concerto. In 1864 she followed this up by playing at the Gewandhaus, Leipzig, and elsewhere in Germany. Though occasionally travelling abroad (as in 1879–80 and 1882–3), and always with success, she has made England her home, where her name is now a household word, and where its appearance in a concert-bill always betokens great execution and still greater taste and musicianship.
In playing she has always devoted herself to the classical school, once or twice in a very interesting manner. Thus it was she who performed (for the first and only time in England) Beethoven's transcription of his Violin Concerto for the Pianoforte at the Crystal Palace, Dec. 7, 1872. Her compositions are also chiefly in the classical form and style, and include three sonatas for piano and violin (ops. 16, 21, and 23), a sonata for piano, violin, and cello (op. 19), a sonata for piano solo (op. 22), a mazurka (op. 11), and Presto alla Tarantella (op. 15), also several songs, duets, and 4-part songs, and ​various arrangements of instrumental works, etc.
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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Grant, John

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​GRANT. (Commander, 1835. f-p., 1 7; h-p., 24.)
John Grant entered the Navy, in May, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Tribune frigate, Capt. Thos. Baker, whom he accompanied as Midshipman, in 1807, into the Vanguard 74, commanded afterwards by Capt. Henry Rich. Glynn. In 1811, having hitherto served on the Home and Baltic stations, latterly as Master’s Mate of the Christian VII. 80, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. Pellew, he sailed with that officer for the Mediterranean on board the ​Caledonia 120. Being promoted, 25 June, 1812, to a Lieutenancy in the Milford 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Thos. Fras. Fremantle, he assisted, in the course of 1813, at the capture of Fiumé, Rovigno, Piran, Capo d’Istria, and Trieste; and on 5 Aug. in the same year he commanded the boats, under Capt. Jas. Black, at the capture, on the island of Ragosniza, of a battery mounting 6 24-pounders and 2 71-inch mortars, and the destruction of a newly-erected signal-tower. Between 1814 and May, 1816, Mr. Grant next served, in the Adriatic, and on the Home and Jamaica stations, in the Revenge 74, flag-ship of Sir John Gore, Eurydice 24, Capt. Hon. Valentine Gardner, Romney 50, Capt. John Mackellar, and Salisbury 50, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral John Erskine Douglas. He was afterwards appointed First-Lieutenant, 21 Sept. 1829, and 18 Oct. 1832, of the Ganges 84, and Spartiate 76, commanded on the Mediterranean and South American stations by Capts. Geo. Burdett and Robt. Tait – the latter as flag-ship for some time of Sir Michael Seymour. He attained his present rank 10 Dec. 1835, and – with the exception of two years’ command, from 30 March, 1838, until paid off in the early part of 1840, of the Talavera 72, Capt. Wm. Bowen Mends, on the Mediterranean station – has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Granger, William

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​GRANGER. (Vice-Admiral, of the Red, 1837. f-p., 19; h-p., 43.)
William Granger was born about 1769.
This officer entered the Navy, in Feb. 178.5, as A. B., on board the Hyaena 24, Capt. Pat. Sinclair, employed off the coast of Ireland. From Jan. 1787, until March, 1793, he served, as Midshipman, on the same, and on the Channel and West India stations, in the Triumph, flag-ship of Lord Hood, Squirrel, Capt. John Drew, Brune, Capt. Davidge Gould, Aurora, Capt. John Sutton, Bombay Castle, Capt. John Thos. Duckworth, Nemesis, Capt. Alex. John Ball, and Sandwich, Capt. Jas. Robt. Mosse. He then sailed for the Mediterranean in the Fortitude 74, Capts. Wm. Young and Thos. Taylor, of which ship he was created a Lieutenant by commission dated 7 Oct. 1793. After assisting at the reduction of Corsica in 1794, and being for a short time attached to the Fame 74, Capt. Thos. Taylor, he was appointed, at the Cape of Good Hope, 27 Jan. and 16 July, 1796, to the Crescent 36, Capt. Edw. Buller, and Monarch 74, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Keith Elphinstone; under the former of whom he witnessed the surrender of the Dutch squadron in Saldanha Bay. He was promoted, on the latter station, to the command, 10 May, 1797, of the Hope sloop; from which vessel he removed, 8 Nov. 1797, to the Rattlesnake 16. On 16 Sept. 1799, Capt. Granger was made Post into the Jupiter 50, bearing the broad pendant, also at the Cape, of Commodore Geo. Losack. In that ship, on 11 of the following Oct. during the absence of the Commodore, he brought to close action, after a long running fight, the French frigate La Preneuse of 40 guns and 300 men. Being, however, unable, in consequence of the boisterous state of the weather, to open her lower-deck ports, the Jupiter was ultimately obliged to discontinue the action, in order to repair her damages; and the enemy accordingly effected his escape. Capt. Granger’s subsequent appointments were, after an interval of 12 months – 1 Jan. 1801, to the Hyaena 24, employed, until Jan. 1802, in the Baltic and Channel – 3 Jan. 1805, for rather more than two months, to the Malta 80, on the coast of Spain – and lastly, 11 Aug. 1808, and 21 April, 1810, to the Semiramis 36, and Caesar 80, both on the Lisbon station, where he continued until 25 May, 1811. He became a Rear-Admiral 22 July, 1830; and a Vice- Admiral 10 Jan. 1837.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Grant, Duncan Brooks Gordon

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​GRANT. (Lieutenant, 1827.)
Duncan Brooks Gordon Grant passed his examination in 1824; and obtained his commission 22 Oct. 1827. His appointments have since been – 26 Nov. 1830, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant, to the Hyperion 42, Capt, Wm. Jas. Mingaye, under whom he served on the Coast Blockade until March, 1831 – 9 May, 1837, to the Victory 104, bearing the flags of Sir Fred. Lewis Maitland and Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie, Admiral-Superintendents at Portsmouth, where he continued the usual period of three years – and, 25 June, 1840, to the Coast Guard, in which service he is now employed.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Grandy, John Samuel William

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​GRANDY. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
John Samuel William Grandy entered the Navy 26 April, 1823; passed his examination in 1831; obtained an appointment in the Coast Guard 12 Dec. 1839; and on 1 Jan. 1842 was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. Continuing to serve in the Coast Guard, he had the good fortune, in Jan. 1845, to render much assistance to the Pelican sloop, when that vessel, with 250,000l. of specie on board took the ground between Stoke’s Bay and Fort Monckton. Mr. Grandy has been in command since 1 April, 1845, of the Active Revenue-cruizer. He is the Senior Lieutenant on the List of 1842.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Grant, Edward

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​GRANT. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 31.)
Edward Grant entered the Navy, 15 April, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Gibraltar 80, Capts. John Halliday, Jas. Johnstone, Henry Lidgbird Ball, and Valentine Collard; in which ship he beheld, as Midshipman, the destruction of the French squadron in Basque Roads in April, 1809. In June, 1810, he removed to the Courageux 74, Capt. Wm. Butterfield, stationed off the coast of France, wherej in the following month, he again joined the Gibraltar, then commanded by Capt. Robt. Plampin. From April, 1811, until Oct. 1813, he served in the Andromache 38, Capt. Geo. Tobin, under whom, after assisting at the siege of St. Sebastian, he escorted the French garrison to England, and on 23 of the ensuing month, Oct. 1813, contributed, we believe, to the capture of La Trave, of 44 guns and 321 men, which frigate, although disabled in a previous action, did not surrender until she had sustained a close conflict of 15 minutes. On the following day Mr. Grant was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Cyane 22, Capt. Thos. Forrest, and, while in that vessel, he was present, in Jan. 1814, at the capture, off Madeira, of the French 40-gun frigates Iphigénie and Alcmène. Being then successively appointed Admiralty-Midshipman of the Newcastle 50, Capt. Lord Geo. Stuart, and Tonnant 80, flag-ship of Sir Alex. Cochrane, he took part, under the latter officer, in the expedition against New Orleans. He was confirmed a Lieutenant, 29 March, 1815, in the Regulus troop-ship, Capt. Fras. Truscott, but since the following Nov., when he returned to England and was paid off, has been unemployed. Agents – Coplands and Burnett.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Grant, Henry James

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​GRANT. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Henry James Grant passed his examination 5 Jan. 1842; and after serving for some time in North America and the West Indies on board the Tweed 20, Capt. Hugh Donald Cameron Douglas, was appointed Mate, 15 May, 1844, of the Collingwood 80, flag-ship in the Pacific of Sir Geo. Fras. Seymour. He attained his present rank 13 June, 1846.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Grant, William

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​GRANT. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 31.)
William Grant was born 14 May, 1789, at Taunton, in Somersetshire, and died 1 Dec. 1845. He was son of Capt. John Grant, who obtained a medal for his services in the 40th Regt. during the first American war, and who afterwards, when belonging to the Prince of Wales’ or Leicestershire Fencibles, fought in Ireland during the rebellion of 1798. One of his cousins, Wm. Cottell, Lieutenant R.M., was mortally wounded on board the Robust 74, at the defeat, in the latter year, of a squadron under Commodore Bompart; and another, the late Capt. Jas. Cottell, R.M., who died in 1842, served in the Tonnant at Trafalgar. He has left a brother, a Surgeon in H.M. 10th Regt., now at Calcutta.
This officer entered the Navy, 13 Sept. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Quebec 32, Capt. Hon. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dundas, with whom he continued to be employed, in the same ship, and in the Euryalus 36, and Edinburgh 74, until May, 1814. He frequently came into contact, while in the Euryalus, with divisions of Spanish and Danish flotillas. He saw, also, an immense deal of boat-service; conveyed Sir John Moore to the shores of Portugal, the Duke of Angoulême to Gottenhorg, and other members of the French royal family from the latter place to Harwich; assisted, during the Walcheren expedition, in forcing the passage of the batteries between Flushing and Cadsand; was for eight months employed, without once dropping an anchor, with the in-shore squadron off Toulon; partook, while so stationed, of various encounters with the French fleet; contributed, in the boats, to the capture of a large number of armed and other vessels; was often in warm collision with the Italian batteries; and frequently landed for the purpose of destroying the enemy’s stores. On his removal to the Edinburgh, Mr. Grant, in Oct. 1813, commanded the storming-party from that ship at the capture of the defences at Port d’Anzo; and he further served on shore in the unsuccessful attack on Leghorn, at the capture of Santa Maria and other strongholds in the Gulf of Spezia, and finally at the reduction of Genoa. On the latter occasion he was sent to take possession of the Sphynx captured sloop-of-war. From the Edinburgh, which had been recently commanded by Capt. John Lampen Manley, he was transferred, in Dec. 1814, to the Boyne 98, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, flagship afterwards of Lord Exmouth, under whom he served at the siege of Gaeta. He went on half-pay in Sept. 1815, having been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 11 of the preceding Feb., and did not again go afloat.
Lieut. Grant married in 1837. Agent – J. Hinxman.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Grant, Arthur

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​GRANT. (Commander, 1846.)
Arthur Grant passed his examination in 1829; and obtained his first commission 9 May, 1836. His appointments, as Lieutenant, were – on 18 of the same month, to the Dublin 50, flag-ship in South America of Sir Graham Eden Hamond – 22 Jan. 1839, to the Cleopatra 26, Capt. Stephen Lushington, on the North America and West India station – 16 Nov. 1839, as First, to the Andromache 26, commanded at the Cape by Capt. Robt. Lambert Baynes – and, 25 May, 1843, in a similar capacity, to the Fisgard 42, Capt. John Alex. Duntze, stationed in the Pacific. He attained his present rank 9 Jan. 1846; and since 17 of the following Dec. has been employed as Second-Captain of the Superb 80, Capt. Armar Lowry Corry. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Grant, Richard

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​GRANT, Kt. (Capt., 1828. f-p., 26; h-p., 23.)
Sir Richard Grant, born in 1783, is son of the late Rich. Grant, Esq., Proctor at Jamaica.
This officer entered the Navy, in July, 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Royal Sovereign 100, Capt. Wm. Bedford, successive flag-ship in the Channel of the late Lord Gardner and Sir Henry Harvey. He became Midshipman, in July, 1801, of the Révolutionnaire 44, Capts. Thos. Twysden, Hon. John Murray, Hon. Thos. Bladen Capel, Walter Lock, and Hon. Henry Hotham, with whom he continued to serve until Sept. 1804; when, on his return from a voyage to Jamaica, he rejoined Lord Gardner in the Trent, off Cork. In the early part of 1805 he returned to the West Indies as Acting-Lieutenant of the Elk sloop, Capts. R. M‘Donnell and Jas. Rich. Dacres. His official promotion taking place on 5 Oct. in the same year, he shortly afterwards joined, in the capacity of Lieutenant, the Penguin, Capt. Henry Gage Morris, also stationed in the West Indies, where, in June, 1806, and May, 1807, he became attached to the Wolfe, Capt. Hall, and Veteran, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres. His next appointments were, on the Home, Baltic, Cape of Good Hope, Mediterranean, and Irish stations – 30 Sept. 1809, to the Solebay 32, Capt. Edw. Henry Columbine – 8 March, 1809, to the Bellerophon 74, bearing the flag of Lord Gardner – 8 Sept. 1810, and 17 June, 1813, to the President 38, and Blenheim 74, both commanded by Capt. Sam. Warren, under whom, in the former ship, he assisted at the reduction of Java in Sept. 1811 – 15 April, 1815, after six months of half-pay, to the Royal Sovereign 100, Capt. Edw. Pelham Brenton – and, 7 June following, to the Tonnant 80, flag-ship of Sir Benj. Hallowell. He attained the rank of Commander 7 Nov. 1818; was nominated Second Captain, 17 May, 1827, of the Hussar 46, bearing the flag at Halifax of Sir Chas. Ogle; and on 17 May, 1828, was there posted into the Tyne 28. Having paid that vessel off in June, 1830, he subsequently joined – 2 May, 1832, for a period of four months, the Castor 36, lying at Chatham – 15 Feb. 1837, the Cornwallis 72, as Flag-Captain to Hon. Sir Chas. Paget, on the North America and West India station, whence he returned in the spring of 1839 – and, 7 Nov. 1845, to the St. Vincent 120, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Sir Chas. Ogle. He resigned the latter appointment in 1846; and is now on half-pay.
Sir Rich. Grant, who had been Knighted on the presentation of a civic address in 1820, married, 29 July, 1846, Lydia, widow of Jas. Lambert, Esq., of Fowlers, Hawkhurst, Kent. Agent – J. Hinxman.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Grandy, Samuel

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​GRANDY. (Commander, 1837.)
Samuel Grandy entered the Navy, in Feb. 1795 as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the Lion 64, Capts. Geo. Palmer, Edm. Crawley, and Manley Dixon, employed on the Home station; and, on subsequently joining the Overyssel 64, Capt. John Bazely, attended the expedition to Holland in Aug. 1799. During the latter part of the war he served in the Mediterranean, as Midshipman of the Diadem 64, Capt. John Larmour. From the renewal of hostilities in March 1803, until July, 1807, he appears to have been employed, on the Home and Baltic stations, chiefly as Master’s Mate, in the Thunderer 74, Capt Wm Bedford, Hibernia 110, bearing the flag of Lord Gardner, Ville de Paris 110, Capt. Chas. Aidham, and Prince of Wales 98, flag-ship of Admirals Edw. Thornbrough and Jas. Gambier. After participating, as Sub-Lieutenant of the Forward gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Daniel Shields in the operations against Copenhagen, he became successively Acting-Lieutenant, in 1808, of the Lightning sloop, Capt. Bentinck Cavendish Doyle, Vulture, Capt. Joseph Pearce, and Alaart 16, Capt Jas. Tillard; which latter vessel, on 10 Aug. 1809 was taken, at the close of a very obstinate resistance of two hours, by two Danish brigs of war and a division ​of 15 gun-boats, near Fredericksvaen, on the coast of Norway. Mr. Grandy, whose appointment to the Alaart had been confirmed on 25 of the previous March, subsequently joined – 6 Nov. 1809, the Echo 18, Capts. Robt. Keen, Arden Adderley, John Haswell, and Thos. Percival, under the first of whom he contributed to the capture of the Capricieux privateer of 16 guns, near Dieppe, 11 March, 1810 – 30 July, 1812, the Primrose 18, Capt. Chas. Geo. Rodney Phillott, in which vessel he served, on the Home, north coast of Spain, West India, and American stations, until Oct. 1815 – 14 Sept. 1818, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant, the Severn, Coast Blockade ship, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch – 22 Jan. 1822, the Coast Guard – 10 Feb. 1824, the Ramillies 74, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch, under whom he again served, as a Supernumerary, jn the Coast Blockade – 20 March and 23 June, 1829, the Fancy and Harpy Revenue-vessels, which he successively commanded until April, 1832 – and again, on 3 May in the latter year, the Coast Guard. He left that service on advancement to his present rank, 2 Jan. 1837; but, returning to it, as an Inspecting Commander, 5 May, 1812, continued to officiate in that capacity until 1846. He is now on half-pay.
Commander Grandy is Senior of 1837. Agent – Fred. Dufaur.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Rich, Frederick Dampier

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​RICH. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Frederick Dampier Rich, born 7 March, 1818, is third son of Sir Chas. Henry Rich, Bart., of Shirley House, co. Hants, by Frances Maria, youngest daughter of Sir John Lethbridge, Bart.; and nephew of Capt. Edwin Ludlow Rich, R.N.
This officer passed his examination 3 Dec. 1840; served as Mate on the East India and North America and West India stations in the Herald 26, Capt. Joseph Nias, Ilustrious 72, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Adam, Electra 18, Capt. Arthur Darley, and Vindictive 50, bearing the flag of Sir Fras. Wm. Austen; obtained his commission 10 Jan. 1846; and was then for a few months employed in the Vesuvius steam-sloop, Capt. Geo. Wm. Douglas O’Callaghan, in the West Indies. Since 7 Sept. 1847 he has been serving in the Queen 110, Capt. Henry Wm. Bruce, now in the Mediterranean.