A friend of mine, Andy Griffin, wrote a book on him Keith. Worth a look at.

Yes indeed, a great man from the time we were really Great Britain with a navy to match. Oh dear! what have we got now? - no naval heroes and a poor man's navy. Time to shut up shop me thinks and just remember the good old times.

a girl I was at school, with that lived in that house and strangely enough her father was a sea captain as far as I recall !! (although I seem to think as a teenager I was more interested in her jeans than her genealogy !)