Was made a lieutenant in 1795; and appears, by James’s Naval History, to have been wounded in an action with the Cadiz flotilla, while serving in the boats of the Prince George 98, July 3d, 1797. He was promoted to his present rank from the Royal Oak 74, in Oct. 1810; appointed to the Drake sloop, on the Heligoland station. Mar. 12th, 1812; and subsequently sent to Jamaica.