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Samuel Hood Linzee (27 December 1773 – 1 September 1820) was an admiral of the British Royal Navy who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. ==Biography== Linzee was born in Plymouth, Devon, the son of John Linzee and Susannah Inman, and named in honour of Lord Samuel Hood, who was married to his father's cousin, Susannah. His father was a Royal Navy captain, and had served during the American War, commanding the sloop from October 1774 until after July 1776, and saw action at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775. Although his infant son Samuel's name appeared on the ship's muster roll as captain's servant and senior clerk, it is highly improbable that Samuel was on board the ship, but it did count towards the years of sea time necessary for all candidates for a lieutenant's commission. Samuel Linzee subsequently received his on 21 July 1790, aged only sixteen and a half. He was promoted to commander on 5 November 1793, and to post-captain on 8 March 1794, only two months past his 20th birthday, and given command of the 28-gun sixth-rate frigate . On 9 December 1795, the French frigate ''Sensible'' and corvette ''Sardine'' captured ''Nemesis'' while she was at anchor in the neutral port of Smyrna. ''Nemesis'' did not resist and Linzee protested the illegality of the action. The British frigates ''Aigle'' and blockaded the three ships until Ganteaume's squadron drove the British ships off. The French sailed ''Nemesis'' to Tunis in January 1796, but the British recaptured her on 9 March.〔 Linzee travelled home via Venice, Vienna, Dresden, Prague, and Berlin, and eventually returned to England in a packet boat from Hamburg in mid-1796.〔 At 8 a.m. on 26 January 1801,〔 Linzee, newly in command of the 36-gun frigate,〔 ''Oiseau'' (the former ) sighted the French 36-gun frigate , which was bound from Cayenne to Rochefort with despatches. The ''Oiseau'' pursued ''Dédaigneuse'' alone until noon the next day when, with Cape Finisterre in sight, the frigates and joined the chase. Eventually ''Dédaigneuse'' surrendered to the ''Oiseau'' around 2.45 p.m. on the 28th, and was taken into service in the Royal Navy.〔 Linzee commanded the 74-gun ship during the Battle of Copenhagen on 2 April 1801, and was in the fleet of Rear Admiral George Campbell which sailed from England to Port Royal in 1802, and returned to England in May of that year.〔 He commanded the 74-gun from early 1805 until April 1806,〔 and was part of Sir Robert Calder's fleet when he engaged a combined French and Spanish fleet at the Battle of Cape Finisterre on 22 July 1805.〔 In February 1807 Linzee was appointed commander of the 74-gun ship . One of his first duties, on 6 March, was to sit on the court martial of Sir Home Riggs Popham after the failed invasion of South America. On 19 July 1807 he commanded ''Maida'' in the bombardment of Copenhagen and the capture of the Danish fleet.〔 Linzee went to command the for a brief period in January and February 1809, the from 1809 to 1811,〔 the from August 1810 to December 1811, in March 1812,〔 and then the from April to August 1812.〔 He was appointed a Colonel of Marines on 20 July 1811.〔 Linzee was promoted to the flag rank of Rear Admiral of the Blue on 12 August 1812, then to Rear Admiral of the White on 4 December 1812, Rear Admiral of the Red on 4 June 1813, and finally to Vice-Admiral of the Blue on 12 August 1819.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Samuel Hood Linzee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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