SHOVEL (Sir Cloudeley), a brave English admiral, meanly born in 1650. He went to sea a cabin-boy under Sir Christopher Mynus; and soon becoming an able seaman, distinguished himself by his courage and conduct at Tripoli under Sir John Narborough, whose widow he afterward married. King William knighted, and made him an admiral. He had a great share of the glory in the battles of Bantry bay, La Hogue, Malaga, and at the siege of Barcelona. After the unsuccessful attempt upon Toulon, he was cast away on his return home, upon the rocks of Scilly; being then rear-admiral of England, admiral of the white, commander in chief of the queen's fleet, and one of the council to prince George of Denmark as lord high-admiral of England.