Surname: Sanford / Sandford, First Names : John
Awarded Medal (m) or Foreign Order (FO):
Date or Year promoted to :
Master: 11/11/1809
Master (year) ‡ : 11/11/1809
Notes:
1803 Midshipman of Vulture in action with French flotilla off Boulogne ; and of Apollo, in the Bay of St. Euphemia, at the battle of Maida, at the taking of Fort Scylla, in Calabria, and capture of Alexandria.
Master of the Redpole in action with two French luggers and capture of one off Beachy Head, and of Niobe at the destruction of the French frigate Amazone, under Cape Barfleur in 1811.