Captain Joseph Nourse Royal Navy

Captain Joseph Nourse Royal Navy
Title:Captain
First name:Joseph
Surname:Nourse
Post-nominals:Royal Navy
Year elected:1816
MembershipNaval
Captain Joseph Nourse (23 June 1779 – 4 September 1824) was a Royal Navy officer who became commander-in-chief of the Cape of Good Hope Station.

Nourse joined the Royal Navy in 1793 and, having been promoted, to captain, was given command of the frigate HMS Fridericksteen. He transferred to the command of the fourth-rate HMS Severn and took part in the capture and burning of Washington on 24 August 1814 during the War of 1812.

He became commander-in-chief of the Cape of Good Hope Station in 1822, engaged with combating the slave trade, before dying of malaria in Mauritius in 1824.

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