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Conway Shipley


NationalityBritish 
RolesNaval Sailor 
First Known Service11.1.1800CSORN
Last Known Service16.4.1808CSORN
Date of Death16.4.1808 - in the TagusBWAS-1714
Cause of DeathEnemy actionCSORN

Event History


Date fromDate toEventSource
11.1.1800 LieutenantCSORN
19.10.1803 CommanderCSORN
19.10.18034.5.1804
Saint Lucia (14) 1803-1807
British 14 Gun
Unrated Sloop
, Commander, and Commanding Officer
BWAS-1793
3.18044.5.1804
Hippomenes (18) 1803-1813
British 18 Gun
Unrated Sloop
, Commander, and Commanding Officer
BWAS-1793
27.3.1804 Capture of the Egyptienne 
25.4.18045.5.1804Capture of Surinam 
4.5.1804 CaptainCSORN
4.5.18042.1805
Sagesse (20) 1803-1821
British 20 Gun
6th Rate Post Ship
, Captain, and Commanding Officer
BWAS-1793
10.18067.1807
Comus (22) 1806-1816
British 22 Gun
6th Rate Post Ship
, Captain, and Commanding Officer
BWAS-1793
3.180716.4.1808
Nymphe (36) 1780-1810
British 36 Gun
5th Rate Frigate
, Captain, and Commanding Officer
BWAS-1714
8.5.1807 Action at Las Palmas 

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Posted by Tim Oakley on Sunday 17th of December 2017 22:23

n the Nymphe he accompanied the expedition to Copenhagen in 1807. He was afterwards stationed off the Tagus, where, having taken command of his boats, he was shot through the head while in the act of boarding, on the night of 23 April, 1808, the French corvette La Gavotte of 22 guns and 150 men. He had left his ship with the magnanimous intention of attacking the Carlotta frigate of 44 guns; but in this he was disappointed by the wind failing. Capt. Shipley was, in the most exalted sense, a British hero.


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