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James Nicoll Morris
Vice-Admiral Sir James Nicoll Morris KCB (1763 – 15 April 1830) was a Royal Navy officer with a history of distinguished service during the American War of Independence, French Revolutionary War and Napoleonic Wars, especially at the battle of Trafalgar in 1805, where the majority of his ship's crew were killed or injured, including Morris himself who was wounded in the knee. Throughout all his service, Morris was respected for his "''strict sense of honour''" and "''simplicity and singleness of heart for which he was remarkable''".〔Attested by his wife after his death, P.97, ''The Trafalgar Captains''.〕
==Life==
Born into a seafaring family in 1763, Morris joined the navy in 1775 and served aboard several ships, including HMS ''Prince of Wales'' in numerous actions off the United States seaboard and in the West Indies. In 1776 his father, Captain James Morris RN, was killed whilst attacking Fort Moultrie off Sullivan's Island near Charleston, South Carolina, under the command of Lord Cornwallis, but Morris was not present being stationed off the Leeward Islands. In 1779 he fought at the battle of St. Lucia and at the battle of Grenada, making lieutenant〔14 September 1780〕 the following year as a reward for his good service.
At the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars,〔Promoted Commander 21 September 1790〕 Morris was in command of the sloop HMS ''Plato'' and succeeded in capturing his French counterpart ''Lutine'' off Newfoundland, for which he was promoted Post captain〔7 October 1793〕 in 1793.
Taking over the frigate HMS ''Lively'', he commanded her until she was wrecked on Rota Point off Cadiz, and then commanded the frigate HMS ''Phaeton'' in the Mediterranean, co-operating with Austrian movements in the Aegean Sea and delivering Lord Elgin to Constantinople as ambassador. Following the Peace of Amiens, Morris was given command of the ship of the line HMS ''Colossus'', a new, fast and powerful ship, which unfortunately had had a poor previous captain who left behind a backlog of unfinished maintenance work and a surly and unpaid crew.
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