Capt. James BAYLY ¹

  General Notes:

This officer entered the Navy, 6 March, 1799, as a Volunteer, on board the PENELOPE 36, commanded by his relative Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood; and on 31 March, 1800, while at the blockade of Malta, assisted at the hard-wrought capture of Le Guillaume Tell, of 84 guns and 1000 men, bearing the flag of Rear Admiral Decres. After attending, as Midshipman, the expedition to Egypt, he successively joined, between May, 1802, and Oct. 1805, the DONEGAL, 74 bearing the broad pendant of Sir Rich. Strachan, EXPERIMENT 44, Capt. Geo. Chas. Mackenzie VIRGINIE 38, Capt. John Poo Beresford, and EURYALUS 36, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood. For his conduct in the latter frigate at the battle of Trafalgar, on which occasion he had the honour of conveying Lord Collingwood on board, he was at once appointed Acting-Lieutenant of that nobleman's flag-ship, the ROYAL SOVEREIGN 100. He was officially promoted on 22 Dec. in the same year, 1805; and was afterwards appointed, 19 April, 1908, to the GANGES 74, Capt. Peter Halkett in which ship he witnessed the capture, 27 Sept. 1806, of Le President French frigate, and the subsequent reduction of Copenhagen, 11 March 1808, to the WARSPITE 74, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood, stationed in the Mediterranean, 22 Oct. 1810, as First (for his co-exertions in having rescued the EURYALUS, and SHEARWATER brig, from six of the enemy's line-of-battle ships in a gale off Toulon), to the LEONIDAS, Capt. Anselm John Griffiths, also in the Mediterranean-1 Jan. 1811, to the FAME 74, Capt. Walter Bathurst, with whom he returned to England an invalid-25 Oct. 1811, and 11 Oct. 1813, to the TRINCULO 16, and ORONTES 36, Capts. Alex. Renny and Nathaniel Day Cochrane, on the Cork and West India stations, the latter of which ships he left in May, 1815-and, in 1827, to the PRINCE REGENT 120, bearing the flag at the Nore of his old friend, Hon. H. Blackwood, at whose recommendation on, on memorialising the Lord High Admiral, he was advanced to the rank of Commander, 25 Aug. 1828.

James married Fanny TRIPE on 12 Sep 1831. (Fanny TRIPE was born about 1807 and died on 16 Mar 1895.)