Captain William Love Royal Navy

Captain William Love Royal Navy
Title:Captain
First name:William
Surname:Love
Post-nominals:Royal Navy
Year elected:1816
Last year on list:1838
MembershipNaval
Officer Captain William Love was born at Topsham, co. Devon, in April 1764; and entered the navy in Mar. 1778, as midshipman on board the Hyaena frigate. Captain (afterwards Commodore) Edward Thompson; in which ship he visited the coast of Africa; witnessed the close of the battle between Vice-Admiral Byron and the Count D’Estaing, off Grenada, July 6th, 1779; accompanied the fleet under Sir George B. Rodney, to the relief of Gibraltar, in Jan. 1780; and was consequently present at the capture of the Carracas convoy, and the subsequent defeat of Don Juan de Langara. He afterwards joined the Cumberland 74, Captain Joseph Peyton; and in Mar. 1781, again sailed for Gibraltar, with the fleet under Vice-Admiral Darby.

On his return home he joined the Prothée 64, Captain Charles Buckner, of which ship, then about to accompany Rodney to the West Indies, his father was serving as master.

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