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The Naval Chronicle Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
“Through the wild waves, as they roar,
With watchful eye, and dauntless mien,
Thy steady course of honour keep.”
GrayIN the following memoir of Vice-Admiral Russell, we shall submit to our readers such truly seaman-like traits of character, as cannot fail to obtain their approbation.
This brave officer is descended, on both sides, from respectable and once opulent families. His father, (an Englishman,) went over to Ireland, where he married a lady of that country, and settled. Mr. Russell was born, we believe, about the year 1743. His Christian name, Macnamara, is derived from his paternal grandmother. At the early age of five years he had the misfortune of losing, his father; and, through either the fraud, or mismanagement of his guardians, all the fortune which had been left him was dissipated by the time that he reached fourteen.
Having received such an education as was judged requisite, he entered the naval service at an early period of life. The first account that we have received of him, however, is whilst he was Lieutenant of the Albany, in America, during the war with that country. In this ship, several instances of his intrepidity and skill occurred. The Pilot once ran the Albany upon a rock, at some distance from the land, to the westward of the Bay of Fundy.
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