On 29 July 1800,[REF] acting Lieutenant Jeremiah Coghlan was in command of the 14-gun cutter Viper, attached to Sir Edward Pellew's squadron, when he led a very famous cutting out[REF] expedition,[REF] during a blockade of Port Louis, on the South Coast of Brittany.
Captain Coghlan did not survive to claim the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "29 July Boat Service 1800" awarded in 1847 [REF].