William Charles Fahie
Sir William Charles Fahie | |
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Born | 1763 Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath |
Remaining in the West Indies during the following 20 years of warfare, Fahie rose through the ranks to command the
Life
Fahie was born in
At the end of the war, Fahie remained in service but in reserve, remaining on Saint Kitts with his family. In 1793, at the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars, Fahie was given command of the sloop HMS Zebra, in which he participated in an attack on Fort-de-France, for which he was highly commended. He then served on Sir John Jervis' flagship HMS Boyne and then as captain of HMS Woolwich. In 1796 he became captain of HMS Perdrix. In her he engaged in one major action when on 12 December 1798 she took L'Armee d' Italie, a privateer of 18 guns. After a chase of 16 hours and an action of 42 minutes, the privateer was an unmanageable wreck. Of her crew of 117 men she had lost six dead and five wounded; Perdrix had only one man wounded, and some damage to her sails and rigging.[2]
Fahie then served in European waters for some time, his first service out of the West Indies since 1780. In 1799 his ship was paid off, and Fahie remained in reserve until 1804, following the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars.[1]
Serving in command of
In June 1810, Abercrombie escorted a convoy to Europe and was subsequently refitted in Britain, before join the squadron under
Notes
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, J. K. Laughton, (subscription required), Retrieved 26 February 2009
- ^ "No. 15112". The London Gazette. 2 March 1799. p. 209.
- ^ Haydn, Joseph (13 June 2008). The Book of Dignities: Containing Lists of the Official Personages of the British Empire ... from the Earliest Periods to the Present Time ... Together with the Sovereigns and Rulers of Europe, from the Foundation of Their Respective States; the Peerage of England and Great Britain Original 1851 Digitized by the University of Michigan. Longmans, Brown, Green, and Longmans. p. 279.
- ^ Fahie Family
References
- Fahie, Sir William Charles, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, J. K. Laughton, (subscription required), Retrieved 26 February 2009