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1208 off in 1845, was employed in the 50, as Flag-Captain to Rear-Admiral Rich. Thomas, in the Pacific.

Capt. Tucker married, 16 Oct. 1830, Sabine Ann, second daughter of the late Vice-Admiral Jas. Young, of Barton End, co. Gloucester, by whom he has issue. – J. Chippendale.

 TUCKER. 

was born 6 Feb. 1769, at Devonport, and died 12 Jan. 1846, at Portsea. Three of his brothers were in the Naval service.

This officer entered the Navy, 24 March, 1777, as Captain’s Servant, on board the 98, Capt., afterwards Admiral, Herbert Sawyer, in which ship and the, hired armed vessel, Capt. Thos. Hawker, he was for five years and four months employed in the Channel. He served next, from Sept. 1785 until Dec. 1788, and from May, 1789, until April, 1790, in the sloop, Capt. Sam. Hood, and 28, commanded by the late Sir Herbert Sawyer, both on the North American station; and during the five following years, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, on the West India, Channel, and Mediterranean stations, in the  32, Capt. S. Hood,  38, Capt. Thos. Macnamara Russell, 44, armée en flûte, Lieut.-Commander Drummond,  74, Capt. Sir Thos. Rich, navy-transport, Master-Commander John Pennell,  74, Capts. Sir John Collins, Wm. Shield, Geo. Campbell, Wm. Smith, and Adam Littlejohn, and 100, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Wm. Hotham. In the ship last mentioned he was present in the partial action with the French fleet off Genoa 14 March, 1795. He was made Lieutenant, on 31 of the same month, into the 74, Capts. Augustus Montgomery and Benj. Hallowell, part of the force engaged in Hotham’s second partial action 13 July, 1795; and he was subsequently appointed – 11 Dec. 1796, to the 100, flag-ship of Sir John Jervis, under whom he took part, we believe, in the battle fought off Cape St. Vincent – 18 Feb. 1797 (for the purpose of assisting in navigating her to England), to the  110, one of the prizes taken on the latter occasion – 27 Dec. following, to the  74, Capts. Jas. Wallis and Thos. Totty, stationed in the Channel – and, in the course of 1801, to the and  74’s, and again to the, bearing each the flag of his former Captain, then Rear-Admiral, Totty. On 16 March, 1801, the, with about 490 of her officers and crew, was lost near Yarmouth. Among the saved were Rear-Admiral Totty and Lieuts. Tucker and Quash – the two latter of whom were the fortunate means of preserving the lives of 120 persons out of 198, the total number rescued. In 1802, having accompanied Rear-Admiral Totty in the to the West Indies, Mr. Tucker was there appointed in succession Acting-Captain of the  74, Commodore Hon. Robt. Stopford, and Acting-Commander of the and  sloops. In the he was sent by Commodore Sam. Hood to demand the liberation of two British officers who had imprudently placed themselves in the power of the brigands at St. Domingo, although instant death was the declared fate of every white person who should venture to land within the space under their jurisdiction. Having, at the risk of his life, and by the aid of many presents, ascertained that one of the officers had been executed, and that the other had escaped to Port-au-Prince, he proceeded from the neighbourhood of Gonaves to Jacmel, and there rendered such material assistance to the besieged French garrison that he obtained the most handsome letters of thanks from the Commandant and the principal inhabitants. In 1803, while the was repairing in the harbour of St. Ann, Curaçoa, a report reached that island of a renewal of hostilities between Great Britain and Holland. There being no possibility of escape, Capt. Tucker employed himself in taking plans of the Dutch forts and batteries, and in ascertaining the disposition of the inhabitants of St. Ann. The information he acquired he transmitted both to Sir John Duckworth, the Commander-in-Chief, and Commodore Hood, who, in return, acquainted him that as soon as troops could be spared an expedition would be sent against Curaçoa, His last despatches being treacherously delivered into the hands of the Dutch Governor, his ship was forthwith seized, and he himself confined in a room over the soldiers’ barrack, the windows of which were level with a rampart, and watched by two sentinels. Several shot, while he was here, were fired into his room; and he was actually told, from a confidential quarter, that, if not on his guard, an attempt would be made to poison him. On one occasion he was threatened with imprisonment in a dungeon, and was, indeed, placed in one for several hours, because he refused to divulge the names of the inhabitants through whose hands he still continued to send and receive letters. At the end of four months he was allowed to proceed with his officers (the men had been sent to Jamaica) to Barbadoes, whence, as there was no man-of-war there, he released, on his own responsibility, nine Dutch clergymen in exchange. He was ultimately acquitted by court-martial of all blame on account of the loss of the. He was officially promoted to the rank of Commander 21 March, 1804; but did not afterwards go afloat. He was placed on the list of Retired Captains 10 Sept. 1840.

Capt. Tucker married Miss Mary Foott, the daughter of a foreman in Portsmouth Dockyard, by whom he has left issue five children. – Burnett and Holmes.

 TUCKER. 

entered the Navy, 20 March, 1803, as Purser’s Steward, on board the sloop, Capts. Lord Wm. FitzRoy and Geo. Adey Creyke. In that vessel he was at first employed off Weymouth, and next in the West Indies. In Aug 1805 and Feb. 1806 he joined in succession, as ordinary seaman, the 74, Capt. Geo. Hopewell Stephens, and 80, Capts. Wm. Lukin, Willoughby Thos. Lake, John Halliday, Henry Lidgbird Ball, Robt. Plampin, and Geo. Scott, both on the Channel station, where he continued employed in the latter ship as A.B., Coxswain, Acting-Gunner, Quartermaster, Midshipman, and Master’s Mate, until Feb. 1812. He was placed on the quarter-deck as a reward for the conduct he displayed, 11 April, 1809, in Lord Cochrane’s attack upon the French shipping in Aix Roads, on which occasion he was on board a fire-vessel commanded by the present Capt. John Cookesley, and aided in causing two of the enemy’s line-of-battle ships, La Ville de Varsovie and L’Aquilon to cut their cables and run on shore, where they were soon afterwards destroyed. From Feb. 1812 until presented, in Sept. 1815, with a commission dated 3 Feb. preceding, he served in the Mediterranean, at Plymouth, and on the coast of Africa, as Master’s Mate, in the 98, Capt. Robt. Plampin,, Capt. Hall, and 44, Capt. Thos. Browne. His appointments have since been – in the early part of 1823, for several months, to the 120, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane at Plymouth – 15 Oct. 1825 and 19 Feb. 1830, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant, to the and  74’s, Coast-Blockade ships, both commanded by Capt. Hugh Pigot, under whom he remained until the commencement of 1831 – 26 Sept. 1836 and 1 July, 1838, to the  22 and  72, guard-ships at Chatham, each commanded by Capt. John Clavell