Shipster Del.et Sculp GEORGE LORD DARTMOUTH Pub as the Act directs Aug 12.1797. by R. Faulder Bond Str! OR, IMPARTIAL MEMOIRS OF THE LIVES AND CHARACTERS OF OFFICERS OF THE NAVY OF GREAT BRITAIN, FROM THE YEAR 1660 TO THe present TimE; DRAWN FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES, AND DISPOSED IN A BY JOHN CHARNOCK, Esq. WITH PORTRAITS, AND OTHER ENGRAVINGS, Nautæque, per omne Audaces mare qui currunt, hâc mente laborem HORACE, Sat. 1. Lib. 1. IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. IV, LONDON: PRINTED FOR R. FAULDER, BOND-STREET, BIOGRAPHI &c. 1709. BEVERLEY, Thomas, EVERLEY, Thomas,-was appointed captain of the Strombolo, on the 10th of June 1709, as fucceffor to captain Brown. We do not find any other mention made of him, during the reign of queen Anne; nor, indeed, in that of George the Firft which fucceeded, till the year 1718, when he was appointed captain of the Montague, a fourth rate of fixty guns, and ordered for the Mediterranean under fir George Byng. He very much distinguished himself in the engagement with the Spanish fleet off Meffina, one of the enemy's fhips having struck to the Montague, fupported by the Rupert. Captain Beverley remained in the Mediterranean during the continuance of the war, but without meeting with any opportunity of diftinguifhing himself beyond the ordinary routine of fervice. He did not long furvive his return to England, where he died on the 26th of June 1721. BROWN, Charles,-was introduced into the navy, as it is faid, under the fpecial protection and patronage of fir George Byng, afterwards lord Torrington. He was appointed captain of the Strombolo on the 18th of March 1709, but experienced a fate common to a number of brave and diftinguished characters, for a very confiderable A 2 part |