Samuel Sparshott
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Commander Samuel Sparshott was a Royal Navy officer who served in the Napoleonic Wars. As signal-mate on HMS Caledonia, he was called to testify at the court-martial of James, Lord Gambier. As command
Tomb of Samuel Sparshott in Highgate Cemetery
HMS Ville de Paris (built 1795)
HMS Caledonia (b.1808)
HMS Amphion (b.1798), centre
HMS Menelaus (1810)
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HMS Menelaus was a Royal Navy 38-gun fifth rate frigate, launched in 1810 at Plymouth.
Samuel Sparshott
…again under Captain Robert Preston, and cruising the Western Isles. Under Captain Bowles again, and still in the Western Isles, he sailed in the 38-gun HMS Menelaus on 22 September 1815, and to South America in the 32-gun frigate HMS Amphion, on 3 October 1815, again under Captain Bowles. Sparshott was promoted to…
Menelaus as a quarantine hulk off Binstead, near Motherbank