3-gun French privateer Hazard, as well as a large number of merchantmen. On 15 July 1805 Blanche encountered a French squadron consisting of the 40-gun French frigate , the 22-gun corvette Department des Landes, the 18-gun , and the 16-gun brig-corvette . Blanche resisted bravely, but she was reduced to a wreck. Mudge ordered her colours struck and she sank sometime later after the French set fire to her. Mudge was court-martialled on the question whether he had made his best defence; he was not only acquitted, but complimented for "very able and gallant" conduct. From 18 November 1805 to May 1810 he commanded in the Bay of Biscay and at Lisbon. In her he captured the merchant Danish brig Kiellestadt in November 1806, and the Vigilante in October 1807, and also the French warships Agile on 29 May 1809, and Charles on 29 January 1810. Mudge's last command was of the 74-gun on the Brazilian station from July 1814 to August 1815. He saw no further active service, but was promoted to rear-admiral on 22 July 1830, to vice-admiral on 23 November 1841, and to admiral on 15 September 1849. He died at Plympton on 26 October 1852. Legacy Cape Mudge on Quadra Island is named for Zachary Mudge; he was the first European to sight it from a nearby mountain. The Memoirs of the Mudge family was printed in 1883 in an edition of only 100 copies, edited by Stamford Raffles Flint. Mainly concerning Mudge's grandfather, theologian Zachariah Mudge, it also contains an account of Zachary Mudge's naval career. In 1855 a memorial window to Zachary Mudge (the "Mudge Window") was placed in St Andrew's Church, Plymouth, England. References Bibliography Royal Navy admirals 1770 births 1852 deaths Military personnel from Plymouth, Devon English explorers of North America Explorers of British Columbia Royal Navy personnel of the American Revolutionary War Royal Navy personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars Royal Navy personnel of the Napoleonic Wars