to salvage what stores they could. Pomone confirmed that the flute Freedom and a brig that Anson and Sylph had also driven ashore too were wrecked. In August, Sylph attacked Sable d'Olonne. In 1798, White seized six French, Spanish and American ships in the Bay of Biscay, and during October participated in the opening stages of the Battle of Tory Island. In 1799, White was rewarded with promotion to post captain and was given command of the ship of the line HMS Renown, flagship of his former squadron commander Sir John Borlase Warren. Renown served in the Mediterranean, and in 1801 engaged the defences of Porto Ferrajo. In 1803, Renown was attached to the blockade of Toulon, and the following year Warren and White were transferred to the ship of the line HMS Foudroyant in Britain, later assigned to find and defeat the French squadrons in the Atlantic during the Atlantic campaign of 1806. These squadrons could not be found, but Foudroyant was engaged at the successful Action of 13 March 1806, when a separate French squadron was defeated and captured. In 1810, White took command of the first rate HMS Hibernia under Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, sailing for the Mediterranean, where he took command of HMS Centaur off Toulon. In 1811 he assisted the Spanish defenders at the first Siege of Tarragona and subsequently involved in the destruction of the Regulus in 1814. Later life After the war, White left active service but continued to advance in rank, becoming a rear-admiral in 1830 and a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1841, by which time he was a vice-admiral. He served as superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard and in January 1844 was made Commander-in-Chief, The Nore, dying suddenly the following year. Personal life White was twice married. His first marriage was to Cordelia Fanshawe (d. 1809), a daughter of Christiana ( Gennys) Fanshawe and Capt. Robert Fanshawe (a son of Rear-Admiral Charles Fanshawe). After his first wife's death in 1809, he married Charlotte Elizabeth Dalrymple, the daughter of Lt.-Gen. Sir Hew Whiteford Dalrymple, 1st Baronet and Frances Leighton (a daughter of Gen. Francis Leighton). Together, they were the parents of: General Sir Henry Dalrymple White (1820–1886), who married Louisa Mary Smith, daughter of Martin Tucker Smith, in 1858. After her death, he married Alice Elizabeth Malcolm, daughter of Neil Malcolm, 13th of Poltalloch, in 1863. Sir John