Gabriel Bray (d.1824)

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Gabriel Bray

NationalityBritish 
RolesNaval Sailor 
First Known Service1770CSORN
Last Known Service10.1786CSORN
Date of Death1824
Will Probated3.2.1824, PROB 11/1681/78

Event History


Date fromDate toEventSource
1770 Passed the Lieutenant's Examination ADM 107/6/235RNLPC
25.6.1773 LieutenantCSORN
25.6.177326.9.1774
Augusta (8) 1711-1773
British 8 Gun
Unrated Yacht
1761 Renamed "Augusta"
, Lieutenant ADM 6/20/501		ADM 6/20
26.9.177431.1.1778
Pallas (36) 1757-1783
British 36 Gun
5th Rate Frigate
, Second Lieutenant ADM 6/21/52		ADM 6/21
9.17781780
Sprightly (10) 1778-1801
British 10 Gun
Unrated Cutter
, Lieutenant, and Commanding Officer		BWAS-1714
9.17804.1781
Sprightly (10) 1778-1801
British 10 Gun
Unrated Cutter
, Lieutenant, and Commanding Officer		BWAS-1714
7.178110.1786
Nimble (10) 1781-1808
British 10 Gun
Unrated Cutter
, Lieutenant, and Commanding Officer		BWAS-1714
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Posted by Pieter van der Merwe on Sunday 30th of October 2022 13:08

Bray was second lieutenant of the 44-gun 'Pallas' under William Cornwallis on two 'showing the flag voyages' to the Gulf of Guinea (from and to Portsmouth, and - on the first at least which ended there in September 1775 - returning via the West Indies). The second ended in December 1776, though his discharge may have been in Jan 1777 (TBC). His surviving sketches from the first only, with others made in the UK mainly just before, are in the NMM (since 1991) and are all catalogued on its collection web pages.

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