Admiral Zachary Mudge was an officer in the British Royal Navy, best known for serving in the historic Vancouver Expedition.
12 Facts About Zachary Mudge
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Zachary Mudge then served as a midshipman aboard various ships on the Home and North American Stations; firstly the Pegase and Recovery, commanded by Captain the Honourable George Cranfield Berkeley, then Sampson, Captain Charles Hope, Perseus, Captain George Palmer, Leander, the flagship of Rear-Admiral Herbert Sawyer, and Bombay Castle, Captain Robert Fanshawe.
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Zachary Mudge crossed the Pacific to China in the Portuguese-flagged trading vessel Fenis and St Joseph, a 50-foot open boat carrying 14 men, and from there proceeded home in the Lord Macartney East Indiaman.
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Zachary Mudge captured the French privateer cutters Glaneur and Trompeur, in the English Channel, but almost lost his ship in an encounter with an immense iceberg during a passage home from Halifax with despatches from the Commander-in-Chief the Duke of Kent.
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Zachary Mudge was promoted to post-captain on 15 November 1800, and on 1 April 1801 was appointed to command of sixth-rate Constance.
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Zachary Mudge captured the Spanish cutter El Duides, of 8 guns and 69 men, and the privateer lugger Venture, of 2 guns and 27 men, on 7 and 8 June 1801, while off Vigo.
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Zachary Mudge ordered her colours struck and she sank sometime later after the French set fire to her.
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Zachary Mudge was court-martialled on the question whether he had made his best defence; he was not only acquitted, but complimented for "very able and gallant" conduct.
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Zachary Mudge saw no further active service, but was promoted to rear-admiral on 22 July 1830, to vice-admiral on 23 November 1841, and to admiral on 15 September 1849.
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Cape Mudge on Quadra Island is named for Zachary Mudge; he was the first European to sight it from a nearby mountain.
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The Memoirs of the Zachary Mudge family was printed in 1883 in an edition of only 100 copies, edited by Stamford Raffles Flint.
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In 1855 a memorial window to Zachary Mudge was placed in St Andrew's Church, Plymouth, England.