Frederick Warren

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Frederick Warren
Born24 March 1775 (1775)
DiedMarch 22, 1848(1848-03-22) (aged 72–73)
East Court,
Cape of Good Hope Station
Battles/wars
Relations
Richard Laird Warren
(son)

Frederick Warren (24 March 1775 – 22 March 1848) was an officer of the

vice-admiral
.

Life

Born on 24 March 1775,

Halifax station.[2]

When the Adamant was paid off in 1792, Warren was sent to

Newfoundland, where he was promoted on 10 August 1797 to command the sloop HMS Shark. In 1800 he commanded HMS Fairy in the West Indies.[2]

Naval captain of the Napoleonic Wars

On 12 May 1801 Warren was promoted to the rank of captain. On the renewal of the war in 1803 after the

sea fencibles of the Dundee district; in November 1806 he was appointed to HMS Daedalus, and took her out to the West Indies, where in April 1808 he was moved to HMS Meleager, which was wrecked near Port Royal on 30 July 1808. Warren was acquitted of all blame, and officially complimented on the exertions he had made after the ship struck.[2]

In 1809 Warren commanded HMS Melpomene in the Baltic Sea for a few months, acting for Sir Peter Parker, 2nd Baronet, who was on sick leave.[2][3][4] On the night of 29–30 May he fought a severe action in the Belt with about twenty Danish gunboats. At daybreak the wind freshened and the gunboats retired; but the Melpomene had lost thirty-four men, killed and wounded; both hull and masts had suffered much damage, and her rigging was cut to pieces. She was shortly afterwards sent to England and paid off.[2]

In December 1809 Warren was appointed to the 44-gun HMS Argo, which he commanded on the Lisbon station and in the Mediterranean for nearly three years. In 1814 he commanded the 74-gun HMS Clarence in the English Channel.[2]

Later life

From 1825 to 1830 Warren commanded

Cape of Good Hope Station,[5] and from 1837 to 1841 admiral-superintendent at Plymouth. He was made a vice-admiral on 23 November 1841. Warren died at his abode, East Cosham Court, Wymering, Hampshire on 22 March 1848 and was buried at St Peter and St Paul, Wymering. [6]

Family

Warren married, in 1804, Mary, only daughter of Rear-Admiral

Richard Laird Warren, died an admiral in 1875.[2]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ St James, Piccadilly Baptism Records 1875
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Warren, Frederick" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 59. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  3. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/21330. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  4. ISBN 978-1-108-02266-8
    .
  5. ^ Hiscocks, Richard (17 January 2016). "Cape Commander-in-Chief 1795-1852". morethannelson.com. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  6. ^ Wymering Burial Records 1848
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Warren, Frederick". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 59. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Military offices
Preceded by
Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope Station

1831–1834 		Succeeded by
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