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Rh TREMLETT. 

Author:Francisco Sangro Robert Dawson Tremlett is cousin of.

This officer entered the Navy 1 May, 1830; passed his examination 2 May, 1836; served for some time on the Mediterranean, Plymouth, and South American stations, as Mate, in the 10, Lieut.-Commander Chas. Gayton, 120, flag-ship of Sir Graham Moore, and  steam-vessel, Capt. Claude Henry Mason Buckle; and on 26 Jan. 1843 was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His appointments have since been – 27 May, 1843, as Additional, to the 50, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore John Brett Purvis on the coast of Brazil – 13 Dec. following, to the  16, Capt. Cospatrick Baillie Hamilton, in the Pacific – and 29 May, 1845, 13 Nov. 1846, and 29 Jan. 1847, to the  72, flagship of Sir Thos. John Cochrane, 26, Capt. Chas. Talbot, and, as First-Lieutenant, to the 12, Capt. John Chas. Pitman, all on the East India station, where he continues employed. On 8 July, 1846, having accompanied an expedition under Sir T. J. Cochrane against the Sultan of Borneo, Mr. Tremlett, then in the, assisted, in command of the second division of small-arm men, at the capture and destruction of the enemy’s forts and batteries on the river Brune. – J. Hinxman.

 TREMLETT. 

was born 5 Nov. 1769. He is brother of.

This officer entered the Navy, 26 Oct. 1780, as Master’s Servant, on board the 14, Capt. Joseph Peyton, lying at Exmouth. Removing, in the following Dec, to the 60, Capts. Harry Harmood and Alex. Edgar, he was present in that ship in the action fought in 1781 between Rear-Admiral Kempenfeldt and the French Admiral De Guichen. He continued in the until April, 1783; during the next 11 years he was with intervals employed, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the  50, Capts. Hon. Patrick Napier and Hon. Michael De Courcy, 50, Capt. Jas. Bradby, 74, Capt. Robt. Fanshawe, 16, Capt. Fras. Cole, 74, Capt. John Harvey,  64, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Dalrymple,  bomb, Capt. Lord Viscount Garlics,  74, Capt. Sir Andrew Snape Douglas,  44 and  32, both commanded by Lord Garlies, and  98, flagship of Sir Alan Gardner; he was then, 1 Aug. 1794, made Lieutenant into the  36, Capts. Rich. Grindall and Lord Henry Paulet; and he was subsequently appointed – 19 Feb., 25 April, and 28 Oct. 1796, to the 98, Capt. Jas. Hawkins Whitshed, 32, Capt. Edw. Codrington, and of 16 guns (14 long 9-pounders and 2 18-pounder carronades) and 124 men, Capt. John King Pulling – 20 June and 12 Nov. 1798, to the  80, Capt. Sir Thos. Byard, and 98, Capt. J. H. Whitshed – 5 Feb. 1799, to the  74, Capt. R. Grindall – 28 April, 1800 (eight months after he had invalided from the ) to his former ship, the, Capts. Edw. Thornbrough and R. Grindall, with whom he served until Sept. 1802 – 5 April and 22 June, 1803, as First-Lieutenant, to the 110 and  36, Capts. Peter Spicer and Hon. Henry Blackwood – 2 March, 6 Nov., and 22 Dec. 1804, to the command of the (or ) and  hired cutters, and  fire-ship – and, 10 Sept. 1805, to the charge, which he retained until May, 1814, of a Signal station at Cromer in Norfolk. In the Mr. Tremlett (whose services were always on the Home station) took part in Lord Howe’s actions, 29 May and 1 June, 1794. He was present, in 1795, in the, at the capture of the French 40-gun frigates La Gloire and La Gentille, and in Lord Bridport’s action with the French fleet off Ile de Groix; he gained the warmest approbation of Capt. Pulling for his conduct in the at the capture, 21 Aug. 1797, of the French privateer L’Oiseau, of 16 8 and 2 12-pounders, and 119 men (taken after a running action of one hour and 40 minutes, attended with a loss to the enemy of 1 man killed and 5 wounded, but with no casualty to the British), and her prize, the Express armed brig, of Dartmouth, formerly the Appocrate French privateer of 14 guns; and in the  he witnessed the surrender, in Oct. 1798, of Le Hoche 74 and other ships under Commodore Bompart, destined for the invasion of Ireland. He was placed on the Junior List of Retired Commanders 1 Dec. 1830; and on the Senior 24 June, 1831.

Commander Tremlett married, 24 Sept. 1816, Mary, youngest daughter of the late Robt. Radclyffe, Esq., of Foxdenton Hall, Lancashire, by whom he has issue a daughter.

 TREMLETT. 

, born 15 Nov. 1777, at Dartmouth, is son of the late Geo. Tremlett, Esq., Master R.N. (who served as a Midshipman during the reign of George H., and was on board the 14 when that sloop beat off a French 36-gun frigate after a battle of four hours), by Mary, only child of Mr. Tuck, Solicitor, of Langley Hall, near Chippenham, co. Wilts. He is brother of the present ; and of Lieut. Rich. Stiles Tremlett, R.N., who was killed in a duel with Lord Camelford at Martinique.

This officer entered the Navy, in 1788, as A.B., on board the 50, Capts. Erasmus Gower, Wm. Domett, and Edw. Pellew; in which ship, bearing the flags of Admirals Elliot and Milbanke at Newfoundland, he served until Dec. 1792, the chief part of the time in the capacity of Midshipman. He next, in Feb. 1793, joined the 100, flag-ship in the Channel of Rear-Admirals Thos. Graves and Hon. Wm. Cornwallis; and on 21 Sept. 1795 he was made Lieutenant into the 64, commanded, among other officers, by Capt. Manley Dixon. He was present in the in Lord Howe’s action, 1 June, 1794, and in ’ celebrated retreat, 16 and 17 June, 1795. In Dec. 1796 (he was then in the ) he so distinguished himself by his “humane and exertions” in saving the crew of the  frigate, wrecked on a sandbank in the North Sea, that he obtained the thanks of the court-martial which assembled to try the officers and crew, and was highly complimented by the president. Admiral Savage, who publicly declared “that he deserved to have a civic crown placed on his head, and that he hoped the Board of Admiralty would do him justice by immediately advancing him to superior rank.” On 15 July, 1798, Mr. Tremlett took part, off Carthagena, in a brilliant action fought between the and four Spanish frigates of 42 guns each, which terminated in the surrender of one of the latter, the Santa Dorotea. He had been engaged, a few days previously, in a desperate affair with an armed Greek otf Malaga; where, by the desertion of two boats, he and the remainder of his party were left in the greatest jeopardy. Twenty of them were either killed or wounded, 4 only escaping, including Mr. Tremlett, whose hat was shot through in seven places in the course of as many minutes, and whose dirk had its handle knocked off. Being appointed, 1 Sept. 1798, Senior of the (she had been added to the British Navy), Capt. Hugh Downman, he assisted in that frigate at the capture, 28 Nov. following, of the San Leon Spanish man-of-war brig of 16 guns and 88 men, and was present in her when attacked in entering Gibraltar Bay with convoy by 17 of the enemy’s gun-boats. In Dec. 1799, five months after he had left the, he assumed command of the gun-brig, in which vessel he