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Capt. Granville Gower Loch
(1813-1853) was made a Captain on 26 Aug. 1841. The Closing Events of the Campaign in China (1843) was based on the
journal he kept during the Expedition which would end the
First Anglo-Chinese (aka Opium) War. He succeeded
Capt. Charles Fraukland on 14 October 1846 (through Aug. 1848)
commanding The Alarm. Following action in Nicaragua in Feb. 1848, Loch was made a CB. By 1852 he commanded the
Flag-Ship HMS Winchester. Loch died 6 Feb 1853 aet.39 (as lieutenant), as one of the 12 killed and 70
wounded during a series of attacks by concealed enemy troops on 4 Feb near Donnabew, Burma after the non-treatied end
of the Second Anglo-Burmese War.
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The Closing Events of the Campaign in China by Capt. Granville G. Loch (1843):
[During the last half of June 1842, in the public gardens of Ching-hwang-mian, in the suburbs of the captured city of Chan-hai in Kiangsu (Jiangsu) province where the Yang-tze enters the Yellow Sea in east-central China...] "In another part of the gardens there is a miniature wood of dwarf trees, with a dell and water- [48] fall; the leaves, fruit, and blossoms of the trees are in proportion to their size. This ingenious science (if science it can be called), to bring it to perfection, requires the most assiduous care and patient watching. * A small branch of a forest tree is deprived of a ring of bark, and the bare place covered round with prepared unctuous earth; this is kept moist, and when the radicles have pushed into the loam, the branch is separated from the tree, and planted in a trough or porcelain flower-pot. The pot is then filled with bog earth manure and clay, and water is applied according to the necessity of the plant. The branches are repressed by cutting and burning, and bent into shapes resembling an old forest tree; and even to the roughness of the bark and hollow knots of pruned and decayed branches, they are complete in resemblance. The roughness is produced by ants, attracted by smearing the bark with sweet substances." 2 * Davis's China, p. 331. |
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"Winchester," Naval Database,
http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/W/05247.html ; |