John Brisbane (Royal Navy officer)

He was born in Largs, Renfrewshire on 24 September 1735 one of ten children of Thomas Brisbane (b.1688) and his wife, Isabel Nicholson.

In March 1762 he was one of seven wounded in a landing party on St Lucia attempting to capture a schooner laden with coffee, but under fire from local fortifications.

[1] On 7 February 1762 he was given command of the 22 gun HMS Nightingale in Martinique and returned her to Britain for repair at Woolwich Dockyard.

He then had another three years of shore leave before taking command of the 32-gun HMS Flora in December 1775 and again returned to action, sailing to North America to address the growing tensions there in April 1776.

[1] In July 1779 he was given command of the newly launched HMS Alcide a state of the art 74 gun ship with a crew of 550 men.