Samuel Hood Linzee
| Samuel Hood Linzee | |
|---|---|
Portrait of Samuel Hood Linzee, 1802
by Sir Martin Archer Shee |
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| Born |
27 December 1773 Plymouth, Devon |
| Died | 1 September 1820 (aged 46) Stonehouse, Devon |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
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| Service/branch |
 Royal Navy
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| Rank | Vice Admiral |
| Commands held |
Nemesis Oiseau Zealous Warrior Maida Barfleur Triumph Dreadnought Temeraire Union |
| Battles/wars |
French Revolutionary Wars Napoleonic Wars |
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.
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 Falcon 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 Nemesis.
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 Cyclops 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.
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