Career
Garth became a naval Commander on 3 March 1804 and was given the command of the 38 gun frigate HMS Imperieuse with which he subsequently sailed in an expedition against Antwerp. After the reduction of Flushing, Garth was engaged in various operations on the river Scheldt.
On 16 August 1809, whilst again in command of the Impérieuse, Garth in ascending the Scheldt after the other frigates, entered by mistake the Terneuse, instead of the Baerlandt channel, and became in consequence exposed to the fire of the Terneuse battery (located in Terneuzen, The Netherlands). In returning that fire, the frigate discharged from her carronades some Shrapnel shells; one of which, bursting near the magazine of the fort, containing 3000 barrels of powder, and a great quantity of cartridges, caused an explosion that killed 75 men. The battery fired no more, and the Impérieuse passed on.
In the spring of 1810, Garth was put under the orders of Sir George Cockburn who had been sent to Quiberon Bay to work with Baron De Kolli who was trying to arrange the release of Ferdinand VII of Spain who was being held at Valençay. In November 1810 Garth took command of the 22-gun HMS Cossack, and later of the 32 gun HMS Cerberus. In Cerberus he captured various armed ships and merchant men in the Mediterranean.
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