Surname: Bain, First Names : William (Kt)
Awarded Medal (m) or Foreign Order (FO):
Date or Year promoted to :
Master: 11/04/1811
Master (year) ‡ : 11/04/1811
Notes:
Served in the Centurion in the expedition to Dunkirk in 1793 ; capture of the Duguay Trouin French frigate, and in her severe action with three frigates off the Mauritius in 1794
Served on shore at the capture of Trincomalee in 1795 ; was present at the taking of Banda and Amboyna in 1796 ; was slightly wounded in cutting out some vessels at Sourabaya in 1801
Was acting Master of the Caroline at the destruction of the Dutch shipping in the Batavia Roads in 1806, and was slightly wounded at the capture of St, Raphel Spanish Galleon in the same year (NNL 2/1842).
NNL 8/1842 apptd inspector of Duke of Buccleugh's harbour.