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Rh the 74, and on 22 May, 1812, was present in company with the  gun-brig, at the destruction, at the entrance of L’Orient, of the French 40 gun frigates L’Arienne and L’Andromache and 16-gun brig Mamelouck; whose united fire, conjointly with that of a heavy battery, killed 5 and wounded 28 of the ’s people. In the course of the same year we find him joining the 74, Capt. Alex. Skene, and 38, flag-ship of Hon. R. Stopford, both on the Cape station, where he was nominated, 26 Nov. 1812, Acting-Lieutenant of the  18, Capts. Geo. Fred. Rich and Jas. De Rippe. He was confirmed, 26 Oct. 1813, into the 64, Capt. Henderson Bain; and was subsequently appointed – 11 July, 1814, to the  10, Capt. Thos. Woolrige, with whom he served in the Channel and off the north coast of Spain until sent, in the following Oct., to the Hospital at Plymouth – 9 Jan. 1815, to the 36, which frigate his health did not permit him to join – and, 29 June, 1821, for a short time, to the  74, Capt. Chas. Dashwood, lying at Plymouth. He was placed on the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital 30 Jan. 1826.

 SAMWELL. 

, born 8 May, 1775, is brother of the late ; and uncle of the present

This officer entered the Navy, 6 April, 1790, on board the cutter, Lieut.-Commander Lanyon, stationed on the coast of Ireland and in the Channel. In 1791 he became in succession attached, as Midshipman, to the 74 and  98, flagships of Sir Rich. Bickerton at Plymouth; and he next, from Feb. 1793 until May, 1797, served, in the same capacity and as Master’s Mate, in the 74, Capts. Sam. Reeve, Thos. Seccombe, John Smith, Stewart, and Ralph Willett Miller. In 1793-4 he served ashore at the occupation of Toulon, and cooperated in the reduction of Corsica, where he assisted in dragging guns up the hills and in erecting batteries. In 1795 he was present in Admiral Hotham’s two partial actions. On the first occasion, 14 March, the Captain was for an hour and 20 minutes in close action with 80 and  74, whose united broadsides killed and wounded several of her people, besides inflicting considerable damage on her hull, masts, and rigging. On the memorable 14 Feb. 1797, when Sir John Jervis defeated the Spanish fleet off Cape St. Vincent, Mr. Samwell fought as Master’s Mate under the broad pendant of Commodore Nelson, and was one of those who with the hero boarded the San Nicolas 80 and San Josef 112. After serving for a few weeks with Sir John Jervis in the 110, he was nominated, 16 June, 1797, Acting-Lieutenant of the  18, Capts. Thos. Masterman Hardy and Wm. Hoste; in which vessel, being confirmed to her by commission dated 6 Feb. 1798, he performed the duties of First-Lieutenant at the battle of the Nile. He continued to serve in her – participating intermediately in many cutting-out afiairs on the south coast of France – until July, 1801, where the effects of a severe hurt, received in the preceding year, obliged him to invalid. His last appointments were – in March, 1804, for five months to the 74, Capt. Chas. Brisbane, stationed in the Channel – 6 April, 1805, to the Sea Fencible service – and, in April, 1807, to the charge of a Signal-station in the island of Sheppy, where he remained (with the exception of an interval of 18 months in 1814-15) until 23 March, 1816. He became a Retired Commander on the Junior List 26 Nov. 1830; and on the Senior 9 June, 1841. – Messrs. Halford and Co.

 SAMWELL. 

died 22 Dec. 1846, aged 80. He was brother of the present

This officer entered the Navy, in Nov. 1777, as Captain’s Servant, on board the, Capt. L. Ross, stationed in the Channel, where he served until Dec. 1779. He was next in succession employed, chiefly in the capacity of Midshipman and Master’s Mate – from 10 April, 1782, until 20 July, 1783, in the frigate, Capt. Jas. Pigott, on the coast of America – from 27 March until 1 Nov. 1787, in the sloop, Capt. Benj. Hulk, off Milford – from 18 Oct. 1789 until 8 May, 1793, in a cutter, commanded at Plymouth and in the Mediterranean by Lieuts. Humphrey West and Rich. Bagot – and from the latter date until nominated, 28 Jan. 1795, Acting-Lieutenant of the 80, Capt. Chas. Edm. Nugent, in the 74, Capt. Jas. Montagu, and 100, bearing the flag of Earl Howe. In the he fought in the action of 1 June, 1794. He was confirmed a Lieutenant, 17 March, 1795, in the 32, Capts. Jas. Nicll Morris, Jas. Irwin, and John Erskine Douglas, under whom he served for about three years on the Home and Baltic stations; and he was subsequently appointed – 8 July, 1799, for a few weeks, to the 36, Capt. Robt. Sauce, lying at Portsmouth – 19 Jan. 1800, to the 50, Capt. Stevenson, which ship his health obliged him to leave in the following April – and, 29 Sept. 1804, to the Sea Fencibles at Penzance, where he remained until the corps was disbanded in Feb. 1810.

He was placed upon the Junior List of Retired Commanders 26 Nov. 1830; and on the Senior 23 March, 1833. Commander Samwell has left a son in the service, the present.

 SAMWELL. 

, born 9 Nov. 1798, at Devonport, is son of the late, and nephew of the present

This officer entered the Navy, 30 April, 1812, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the 20, Capts. Robt. Forbes and John Maxwell, under whom he was for about two years employed in the Channel and on the west coast of Africa, where he assisted in destroying several slave-factories up the River Pongo. From March, 1814, until Jan. 1816, he served, again on the African coast, in the 16, Capt. Dan. Ross; he fought, while attached, between July and Oct. of the latter year, to the 104, Capt. Edw. Brace, at the battle of Algiers; and he afterwards joined – 15 Dec. 1817, as Master’s Mate, the 18, Capt. Herbert Brace Powell, on the Milford station, where he served until paid off in Feb. 1819 – 13 Feb. and 21 Nov. 1820, the  26, Capts. Arthur Stow and Geo. Rich. Pechell, and 18, Capt. Roger Hall, attached to the force in the West Indies and North America – 26 Sept. 1821, the  74, Capt. Edw. Brace, lying at Portsmouth – 9 April, 1822, the 46, Capts. Andrew King and Hon. Robt. Rodney, in which frigate he was present under Sir Harry Burrard Neale in the demonstration made before Algiers in 1824 – and, 1 Oct. 1825 and 24 Nov. 1827, the Detad 42, Capts. Hon. R. Rodney and Hon. Alfred Crofton, and 10, Capts. Christopher Wyvill, Sir Thos. Pasley, and Alfred Luckraft, on the Lisbon and Mediterranean stations. In the latter vessel, of which he was confirmed a Lieutenant (after having three times acted as such) 25 Aug. 1829, he assisted, in company with the 50,  48,  28, and  18, in reducing a fort and destroying several vessels belonging to a horde of Greek pirates at Carabusa, in the island of Candia, 31 Jan. 1829. The being wrecked on that occasion, he was for five months engaged in recovering her stores, guns, &c. He left the in March, 1830; and since 26 Sept. 1836, has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard.

Lieut. Samwell married, in 1842, Emma, eldest daughter of the late ___ Woolf, Esq., of Plymouth.

