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1318 Home station, by Capt. Wm. Louis Sheringham – and 8 Feb. 1845, to the command, which he still retains, of the, another surveying-vessel, employed in the Pacific. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 WOOD. 

is first-cousin of This officer entered the Navy 1 Feb. 1820; passed his examination in 1826; obtained his first commission 28 June, 1838; and from 9 April, 1839, until advanced on his return to England to his present rank 4 Oct. 1843, was employed in the  bomb, Capt. Jas. Clark Ross, on a a voyage of discovery to the Antarctic Seas. He has since been on half-pay. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 WOOD. 

entered the Navy, 12 Jan. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 18. While in that vessel under the command of Capt. Sam. Jackson be assisted at the capture, 13 April, 1805, of the French privateers Orestes and Pylades of 1 gun, 6 swivels, and 33 men each, escorted, towards the close of the same year, a fleet of transports with 5000 troops, &c., for Lord Cathcart’s army in Hanover, was engaged in several warm affairs with the Boulogne flotilla, and accompanied the expedition against Copenhagen. In Jan. 1808 (he had attained the rating of Midshipman in May, 1805) he removed to the 74, also commanded by Capt. Sam. Jackson. After pursuing to the Mediterranean a French squadron which had effected its escape from Rochefort, he proceeded to the Baltic; where we find him present, in Aug. 1808, at the embarkation from Nyeborg of the Spanish army under the Marquis de la Romana. In the following winter the was frozen up at Gottenborg, and was only extricated by a canal being cut by her crew through four miles of ice. In the summer of 1809 she formed part of the force employed in the attack upon Walcheren. On leaving her Mr. Wood became Master’s Mate, in Nov. of the same year, of the 36, Capt. Arthur Farquhar. In her he served for nearly three years in the North Sea and assisted at the capture of several of the enemy’s armed and other vessels. In Sept. 1812 he joined the 98, Capt. Mackenzie, lying at Portsmouth; he was next, from March until Dec. 1813, employed, again with Capt. Jackson, as Master’s Mate, in the  38, on the coast of North America; and on 23 Feb. 1815 he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His last appointment was, for a short time in 1824, to the 28, flag-ship of Sir John Poo Beresford at Leith. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 WOOD. 

(a) obtained his commission 23 Sept. 1812. At the commencement of the peace he was serving at the Cape of Good Hope in the 10, Capt. Thos. Barker Devon. He was afterwards, from 1822 until 1827, employed in the Coast Blockade, with his name on the books of the 50,  74, and  42, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Wm. Jas. Mingaye. Since the date last mentioned he has been on half-pay.

 WOOD. 

was born 21 Feb. 1770.

This officer entered the Navy, 17 Sept. 1793, as Master’s Mate, on board the 28, Capts. Wm. Essington, Rich. King, Chas. Gamier, Rawlinson, Henry Digby, and Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, in which ship he was for six years employed in the North Sea and Channel, on the coasts of Spain and Portugal (where he served in the boats in several cutting-out affairs), and in the Mediterranean. He then, in Sept. 1799, joined, also as Master’s Mate, the 32, commanded by his former Captain, Digby; under whom we find him assisting, in company with other ships, at the capture, in Oct. 1799, off Cape Finisterre, of the Spanish 34-gun frigates Santa Brigida and Thetis, laden with treasure ato an enormous amount. After serving for a short time with Capt. Essington at Portsmouth in the 74, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 1 Aug. 1801, and appointed to the command, in the Downs, of the  gun-brig; which vessel he paid off 12 April, 1802. From 12 July, 1803, until 26 April, 1804, he was employed in the Sea Fencibles at Ramsgate. This was his last appointment. He was placed on the Junior List of Retired Commanders 3 Oct. 1831; and on the Senior 16 Sept. 1846.

Commander Wood married, 17 March, 1801, Miss Sarah Browning, by whom he had a daughter, now deceased, who married  – J. Chippendale.

 WOOD. 

(a) was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 18 March, 1826.

 WOOD. 

(b) obtained his commission 25 Aug. 1845; was appointed, 15 Sept. following, to the 50., Capts. Hon. John Gordon and Sir Thos. Maitland, on the Home station; and since 20 Feb. 1847, has been employed as Second and First Lieutenant in the steam-sloop of 350 horsepower, Capt. Thos. Henry Mason, in the Pacific.

 WOOD. 

was born 28 Jan. 1810. His grandmother was sister of the gallant Capt. John Harvey, who fell in command of the 74 in Lord Howe’s action 1 June, 1794.

This officer entered the Navy, 14 Sept. 1825, on board the 76, Capt. Wm. Fairbrother Carroll, in which ship and in the 46 and  52, he continued employed in the East Indies under the flag of Rear-Admiral Wm. Hall Gage, as Fst.-cl. Vol. and Midshipman, until his return to England in Jan. 1830. In the ensuing July he joined the steamer, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Henry Symons; he served next, from Dec. in the same year until Aug. 1834, part of the time as Mate (he passed his examination 18 April, 1832) in the 28, Capts. Hon. Wm. Wellesley and Hon. Geo. Rolle Walpole Trefusis, in the West Indies and North America; in Nov. of the latter year he was appointed to the steamer, Capt. Wm. Langford Castle, in the Channel; and in the spring of 1835 he sailed in the 50, Capt. Chas. Hope, for the Pacific; where, after serving with Capt. Chas. Eden in the 18 and with Lieuts. Geo. Fred. Dashwood and Henry Kellett in the surveying-vessel, he was nominated, 22 Sept. 1837, Acting-Lieutenant of the, another surveying-vessel, Capt. Edw. Belcher. Being ordered subsequently to the coast of China, he there, in the boats, united in the vigorous operations put into force, 7 Jan. 1841, against the enemy’s forts at Chuenpee; and in the course of the same day he contributed to the destruction of 11 out of 13 war-junks. He was next, 26 Feb., present in the celebrated action with the Bogue forts; and on 27 he shared in an attack made ay a squadron under the orders of Capt. Thos. Herbert on the enemy’s works close to Whampoa Reach; where he landed in command of a party of seamen and marines, and assisted in utterly routing 2000 Chinese, and in capturing 54 pieces of cannon. During the first attack upon Canton Mr. Wood served with a division of boats commanded by Capt. Belcher: in the second he was attached to the Madras Artillery, with 20 of the ’s men, by whom a gun was brought up in such excellent style, that he received the written thanks of Capt. Anstruther, the commanding officer. He aided too in piloting the<section end="Wood, William Cotterell" />