Cochrane captures the Spanish Frigate Gamo despite "Great Disparity of Force"

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Cochrane captures the Spanish Frigate Gamo despite "Great Disparity of Force"
Captain Lord Cochrane of H.M. Sloop Speedy of fourteen guns and fifty-four men reports capture of the Spanish Xebeck Frigate, the Gamo, thirty-two guns, two hundred and seventy-four men and forty five marines off Barcelona. On boarding ...by the impetuosity of the Attack, we forced them instantly to strike their colours..., in a complete issue of The London Gazette dated 4th August 1801 -- 7in. (18cm.) col space

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Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775-1860) enjoyed a long and colourful career with the navy which at its high point saw him fted and reap 75,000 in prize money and, at its low, arrested and imprisoned for fraud. Thereafter he commanded several navys around South America including Chile, Brazil and Peru's as well as Greece's. In 1832 he was finally granted a pardon and restored to the Royal Navy as a rear-admiral, becoming rear-admiral of the United Kingdom in 1854. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.

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