Andrew King

Posted by Brian on Wednesday 16th of July 2014 00:55

The Gentleman's magazine. c.1 v.158 1835.
Page 332: Cornwall, June 30. At Falmouth, Captain Andrew King, C.B. Superintendent of Packets at that port. He was a son of the late William King, of Southampton, esq. and brother to Captain Edward Durnford King, R.N. Having entered the Naval service at an early age, he served as midshipman on board the Belerophon bearing the flag of Rear Admiral Pasley, in the glorious battle of the 1st of June, 1794, being made Lieutenant in the Andromeda frigate and afterwards first of La Desiree, he was wounded in that ship during the attack on Copenhagen by Lord Nelson in 1801. He was 4th Lieutenant of the Victory, in the memorable Battle of Trafalgar, 21st. Oct. 1805, and made Commander on the 22d January 1806. During the Capture of Copenhagen, in 1807, he commanded the Hebe, hired armed ship, and brought home the Waldemar, 80. he was made post for this service in Oct. of that year. He was next appointed Acting in the Venerable 74. and assisted at the reduction of Flushing, in August 1809. He passed thence to the Hannible, 74, and Royal George, 100, flag ships; and subsequently obtained command of the Rainbow , 26, and Iphigenia, frigate, in the Mediterranean. In the latter ship he assisted at the capture of Genoa, in 1814 and sailed shortly afterwards with a fleet of transports under his convoy from Gibraltar to Bermuda. In Oct. 1815 he proceeded to India, from whence he brought home the Cornwallis, 74. He was next appointed, December 28,1821 to the Active, 46, which ship he commanded until September 1824. His last appointment was that of Superintendent of Packets at Falmouth which took place in May 1834.