Samuel Hood Linzee Samuel Hood Linzee ( 27 December 1773 – 1 September 1820 ) was an admiral of the British Royal Navy who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars . Biography . Linzee was born in Plymouth , Devon , the son of John Linzee and Susannah Inman , and named in honour of Lord Samuel Hood , who was married to his father ' s cousin , Susannah . His father was a Royal Navy captain , and had served during the American War , commanding the sloop from October 1774 until after July 1776 , and saw action at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775 . Although his infant son Samuel ' s name appeared on the ship ' s muster roll as captain ' s servant and senior clerk , it is highly improbable that Samuel was on board the ship , but it did count towards the years of sea time necessary for all candidates for a lieutenant ' s commission . Samuel Linzee subsequently received his on 21 July 1790 , aged only sixteen and a half . He was promoted to commander on 5 November 1793 , and to post - captain on 8 March 1794 , only two months past his 20th birthday , and given command of the 28 - gun sixth - rate frigate . On 9 December 1795 , the French frigate " Sensible " and corvette " Sardine " captured " Nemesis " while she was at anchor in the neutral port of Smyrna . " Nemesis " did not resist but Linzee protested the illegality of the action . The British frigates " Aigle " and blockaded the three ships until Ganteaume ' s squadron drove the British ships off . The French sailed " Nemesis " to Tunis in January 1796 , but the British recaptured her on 9 March . Linzee travelled home via Venice , Vienna , Dresden , Prague , and Berlin , and eventually returned to England in a packet boat from Hamburg in mid - 1796 . At 8 a . m . on 26 January 1801 , Linzee , newly in command of the 36 - gun frigate , " Oiseau " ( the former ) sighted the French 36 - gun frigate , which was bound from Cayenne to Rochefort with despatches . The " Oiseau " pursued " Dédaigneuse " alone until noon the next day when , with Cape Finisterre in sight , the frigates and joined the chase . Eventually " Dédaigneuse " surrendered to the " Oiseau " around 2 . 45 p . m . on the 28th , and was taken into service in the Royal Navy . Linzee commanded the 74 - gun ship during the Battle of Copenhagen on 2 April 1801 , and was in the fleet of Rear Admiral George Campbell which sailed from England to Port Royal in 1802 , and returned to England in May of that year . He commanded the 74 - gun from early 1805 until April 1806 , and was part of Sir Robert Calder ' s fleet when he engaged a combined French and Spanish fleet at the Battle of Cape Finisterre on 22 July 1805 . In February 1807 Linzee was appointed commander of the 74 - gun ship . One of his first duties , on 6 March , was to sit on the court martial of Sir Home Riggs Popham after the failed invasion of South America . On 19 July 1807 he commanded " Maida " in the bombardment of Copenhagen and the capture of the Danish fleet . Linzee went to command the for a brief period in January and February 1809 , the from 1809 to 1811 , the from August 1810 to December 1811 , in March 1812 , and then the from April to August 1812 . He was appointed a Colonel of Marines on 20 July 1811 . Linzee was promoted to the flag rank of Rear Admiral of the Blue on 12 August 1812 , then to Rear Admiral of the White on 4 December 1812 , Rear Admiral of the Red on 4 June 1813 , and finally to Vice - Admiral of the Blue on 12 August 1819 . Death . Linzee died on 1 September 1820 , at his home at Stonehouse , Devon , at the age of 46 , after an attack of apoplexy caused him to fall from his horse a few days before . A monument can be found in the north aisle of the Church of St . Andrews , Plymouth . Personal life . Linzee first married Miss J . Clark , at the Cape of Good Hope , South Africa , in July 1799 . She and her baby died during childbirth on 28 August 1800 , at Greenwich . On 7 September 1802 Linzee married Emily Wooldridge , the daughter of Captain William Wooldridge , at St Andrew ' s Church , Plymouth . They had nine children ; the first three , all boys , were stillborn , while the fourth , named Samuel Hood Linzee , was born in August 1806 , but died of smallpox on 26 December the same year . The fifth child , Emily Wooldridge Linzee , was born on 27 September 1807 . The sixth , also Samuel Hood Linzee , was born on 19 December 1809 , and was drowned off Cape Frio on 11 July 1831 , aged only 22 , while serving as a lieutenant aboard . The seventh child , John Linzee was born 22 September 1812 , while the eighth , Susanna Inman Linzee , was born on 17 December 1815 . The ninth and final child , Mary Ann Charlotte Linzee was born on 26 January 1818 .