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Myr, who had no such powerful patron, seems to have
suffered the extreme penalty.1
Forath was appointed captain of the ship Solen (The
Sun), and ordered to proceed to the Danzig roads.
Here, on 18th November, he was surprised by a sudden
attack of the Danzigers and their ten men-of-war.
Outnumbered and unable to escape, he blew himself and
his ship up rather than fall into the hands of the enemy
(1627). His widow, a Miss Rutherford, received several
estates as a donation from Gustavus Adolphus,1 2 with all
the privileges of nobility attached to it. His brother,
Hans Forath, ennobled in 1650, lived variously employed
as a Captain till 1660.
The feat of A. Forath is said to have been repeated
in the Finnish war of 1700, when Thomas Bennet, a
Lieutenant in the Navy, blew himself up in the Peipus
Lake (1704), to escape the terrific fire from the Russian
batteries.
Of the Pfeifs a great many have excelled as military
men in modern times: Gustaf Pfeif received the gold
medal for bravery in the naval battle of Svensksund, on
the 9th of July 1790, whilst Daniel Pfeif received the
same distinction after the war of 1813-14.3 Nor must
we forget Captain Michael Spalding, who was Governor
of Karlskona. He commanded the Frigate Pelikan in
the naval battle of Moen in 1712, on the 24th of August,
when he took a Danish galliote. He was also successful
against the Danes in 1715. He died in 1741.
But enough has been said of wars and rumours of
1 Tankebok of 1621. R.A.
2 See Kammer-Arkivet, Stockholm. F.’s daughter married a Captain
Seton, another example of the clannishness of the Scot abroad.
3 A member of the Klerck family, Carl U. af Klercker, a naval officer
who died in 1828, likewise received the medal for bravery.
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