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Rh Turner, Bart., of Warham, by Mary, his wife, sister of the celebrated Sir Robert Walpole, K.G. This officer entered the Navy, 9 April, 1803, as I’st.-cl. Vol., on borad the 32, Capt. Thos. Masterman Hardy, and sailed shortly afterwards with the flag of Lord Nelson for the Mediterranean; where he continued employed with the hero in the 100, with Capts. Ross Donnelly and Wm. D’Urban in the and  frigates, and again in the Victory and, until Aug. 1809. In the Victory, we believe, he fought at Trafalgar. He was made Lieutenant, 23 Oct. 1809, into the sloop, Capt. Hon. Alex. Jones, on the Cork station; and was subsequently appointed – in 1810, to the 80, Capt. Wm. Granger, and 74, flag-ship of Sir Rich. Goodwin Keats, employed off Lisbon and at the defence of Cadiz – 1 Aug. 1811, for 15 months, to the 74, Capts. John Allen and Edw. Durnford King, in the Mediterranean – and, in June and Dec. 1813, to the 98 and  36, Capts. Robt. Plampin and Edwin Henry Chamberlayne, on the same station, whence he returned in April, 1814. He was promoted, 1 July in that year, to the command of the sloop. In her he served in the Mediterranean and on the coast of North America until Feb. 1815; and he was next, from 19 Feb. 1822 until wrecked on a reef of rocks off Langness Point, in the Isle of Man, 14 Dec. following, employed in the 18, and from 15 March, 1828, until he invalided in the spring of 1829, in the  20, on the coast of Africa. He has since been on half-pay. He attained his present rank 23 Nov. 1841.

Capt. Suckling married, first, 24 Sept. 1844, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late John Barry, Esq., of Montague Street, Russell Square, London; and, that lady dying 9 Sept. 1846, secondly, 5 Aug. 1847, Caroline, second daughter of the late Wm. Loaden, Esq., of Rosehill, near Bideford, co. Devon. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 SULIVAN. 

Author:Bartholomew James Sulivan is son of

This officer entered the Navy 4 Sept. 1823; passed his examination in 1829; obtained his first commission 3 April, 1830; served from 25 June, 1831, until the close of 1836,, in the surveying-vessel, Capt. Robt. FitzRoy, on the South American station; was appointed to the command, 30 Nov. 1837, of the schooner, at Chatham; and from 12 April, 1838, until 1839, was again employed in South America in command of the  ketch. He attained the rank of Commander 14 May, 1841; served in that capacity in the surveying-vessel, on the S.E. coast of America, from 2 April, 1842, until paid off on his return to England in 1846; and since 10 Dec. 1847 has had his name borne as a Supernumerary-Captain, for surveying-service, on the books of the  104, flag-ship at Portsmouth. His promotion to Post-rank, which was effected in March, 1846, by a commission dated back to 18 Nov. 1845, was made a reward for the conduct he had displayed in command of the southern division of the ships engaged in the battle of the Parana; where the combined squadrons of France and Spain, after a hard day’s fighting, destroyed four heavy batteries belonging to General Rosas at Punta Obligado, also a schooner-of-war mounting 6 guns, and 24 vessels chained across the river. “I should be unmindful,” writes Capt. Chas. Hotham, the Senior British officer present on the occasion, in his official report of the proceedings addressed to the Commander-in-Chief, “of the ability and continued zeal of Commander B. Sulivan, did I not bring him particularly to your notice; by his exertions we were furnished with a chart, which enabled us to complete our arrangements for the attack.”

Capt. Sulivan is married, and has issue.

 SULIVAN. 

passed his examination 21 July, 1841; and after having served as Mate in the surveying-vessel, Capt. Fras. Price Blackwood, and 6, Capt. Jas. Anderson (b), in the East Indies and on the coast of Africa, was promoted, 2 June, 1846, to the rank of Lieutenant, and nominated Additional of the 26, Capt. Geo. Mansel, on the station last named. His appointments have since been – 6 Nov. 1846, to the steam-frigate of 560 horse-power, Capt. Aug. Henry Ingram, employed on particular service – and, 13 July, 1847, and 19 July, 1848, again as Additional, to the  50, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sam. Hood Inglefield, and 42, Capt. John Norman Campbell, both in the East Indies, where, with his name on the books of the latter ship, he is now doing duty at Bombay in the  80.

 SULIVAN, C.B.

was born 5 Jan. 1781. He is first-cousin of

This officer entered the Navy, in 1786, as Captain’s Servant, on board the 74, Capt. John Knight, bearing the flag of Lord Hood at Portsmouth, where he followed the Admiral into the  98, and was employed, until 1793, in the  74, Capt. John Thos. Duckworth, 74, Capt. John Colpoys, and  74, Capts. Wm. Locker and Boger. He served next, from July, 1794, until April, 1797, in the Channel and Mediterranean, the chief part of the time as Midshipman, in the 74, Capts. Alex. Hood and Wm. Shield, 32, Capt. Shield,  again, Capts. Aug. Montgomery and Davidge Gould, and 100, flag-ship of Lord Bridport; and on 26 of the month last mentioned he was made Lieutenant into the  100, Capt. Walter Locke. His next appointments were – 19 July, 1797, to the sloop, Capts. Stair Douglas and Horace Pine, in the North Sea – 1 Jan. 1798, to the, Capt. Wm. Bligh, lying in Yarmouth Roads – 15 March, 1798, to the sloop, Capts. Wm. Brown, Chas. Lydiard, Stephen Thos. Digby, and Philip Pipon, under whom he was for seven years employed in the North Sea and Baltic and off Guernsey – and, 10 May and 26 Dec. 1805, to the 18, Capt. John Coode, and  38, Capts. Fred. Langford and Chas. Lydiard, on the Irish and Jamaica stations. In the he accompanied the expedition sent under Sir Home Popham, in May, 1798, to destroy the locks and sluice-gates of the Bruges Canal, and was present, in Sept. 1803, at the bombardment of Granville. While serving, as First, in the, he assisted, in company with the 38, at the capture, 23 Aug. 1806, near the Havana, after a spirited action, in which the British sustained a loss of 2 men killed and 32 wounded, of the Pomona Spanish frigate of 38 guns and 347 men, laden with specie and merchandize, and defended by a castle mounting 11 36-pounders, and a flotilla of 10 gun-boats, all of which were destroyed. On 15 Oct. following he took part in a skirmish with the Foudroyant, a French 80, in which the had 2 men killed and 13 wounded; and on 1 Jan. 1807 he contributed to the brilliant reduction of Curaçoa. As a reward for his conduct on the latter occasion he was promoted to the rank of Commander 23 Feb. 1807. He continued in the as a volunteer until that ship was lost, with her Captain and about 60 of the crew, near the Lizard, 29 Dec. in the same year; and he was subsequently appointed – in Jan. 1809, to the Transport service – 4 Nov. 1809, for two months and a half, to the, on the Plymouth station – and, 2 Feb. 1813 and 26 March, 1814, to the  44,