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1326 island. Another convoy, which had left a month earlier, reached Gibraltar on the same day only. Capt. Wormeley had previously, 4 June, 1810, captured the Sans Peur, a felucca-privateer of 1 long gun, 2 swivels, and 39 men. He paid the off in May, 1814; and was advanced to Post-rank 7 June following. His efforts to procure employment since have been as constant as they have been unavailing.

Capt. Wormeley married, 3 Oct. 1820, Miss Caroline Prehle, of Boston, and has issue one son and three daughters.

 WORSFOLD. 

was born 24 Feb. 1798.

This officer entered the Navy, 1 Jan. 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 38, Capt. Fras. Mason, stationed in the Baltic and Channel; and from July, 1812, until his return to England in July, 1814, was employed again in the Baltic, and also on the coast of Brazil, as Midshipman, in the and  frigates, both commanded by Capt. Wm. Bowles. While detached, in Feb. 1814, in a hired schooner, he was wrecked near Monte Video. In June of the same year he narrowly escaped being blown up in a re-captured vessel of which he had been placed in charge, owing to the Americans, who had just before abandoned her, having affixed a lighted match to a barrel of gunpowder. After he left the, and until he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 30 May, 1820, he was employed in the Channel, at Sheerness, and in South America, as Midshipman and Mate, in the 74, Capt. Robt. Lloyd, and, , and frigates, Capts. W. Bowles and Adam Mackenzie. His succeeding appointments were – 4 Nov. 1823, to the Water Guard – 10 Feb. 1824, as a Supernumerary, to the 74, Coast Blockade ship, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch – 18 May, 1824, to the 46, Capt. Chas. Sotheby, fitting for the Mediterranean, whence he returned in Dec. 1827 – 7 Dec. 1829, as First-Lieutenant (a post he had latterly filled on board the ), to the 18, Capt. Robt. Deans, in which vessel he served on the Home station until Feb. 1832 – and, 15 Sept. 1836, 30 April, 1839, and 27 Oct. 1840, in a similar capacity, to the 120,  104, and  120, flag-ships of Sir Philip Chas. Durham and Sir Graham Moore at Portsmouth and Plymouth. He attained the rank of Commander 23 Nov. 1841; was re-appointed, 1 Dec. following, to the, as Second-Captain; was superseded from that ship 26 April, 1842; was again employed at Plymouth, from 18 April until 20 June, 1845, in the 110, bearing the flag of Sir John West; and on 16 Nov. 1846 was appointed to the  72, receiving-ship at Jamaica, Commodores Daniel Pring, Geo. Robt. Lambert, and Thos. Bennett. He has been acting as Captain of the since 12 Feb. 1847.

Commander Worsfold married, 28 Dec. 1830, at Westbourne, Miss Mary Ann Hipkin, of Recton Park, by whom he has issue two sons.

 WORSLEY. 

is second surviving son of the late Rev. Geo. Worsley, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, Rector of Stonegrave and Scawton, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, by Anne, fourth daughter of Sir Thos. Cayley, Bart., of Brompton, in that co. He is next brother of the present Sir Wm. Worsley, Bart., of Hovingham Hall, co. York.

This officer entered the Navy, 23 Jan. 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capts. Ross Donnelly and John Hollinworth, employed in the North Sea and on the Mediterranean station, where, after having served off Cadiz, he successively, in 1810-11, joined, in the capacity of Midshipman (a rating he had already attained), the 38, also commanded hy Capt. Hollinworth, and the  22, Capts. Phipps Hornby and Hon. Donald Hugh Mackay. In the he was present, we believe, in the famous action fought off Lissa 13 March, 1811. He subsequently accompanied Sir Evan Nepean, Bart., to the Government of Bomhay, and saw much active service, as Master’s Mate, in the Eastern Archipelago and the China Seas. In June, 1813, some months previously to which period he had removed with Capt. Mackay to the 36, he united in an attack made hy a force under the orders of Capt. Geo. Sayer on the piratical settlement of Sambas, in the island of Borneo. On the return to England of the, commanded at the time by Capt. Geo. Henderson, he was received, in July, 1815, for a few weeks, on board the 98, Capt. Edm. Boger, lying at Portsmouth. He was next, in May, 1816, appointed Admiralty-Midshipman of the 40, Capt. Sir John Louis, on the North American station, where he continued until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 24 Oct. 1818. He then returned to England in the 24, Capt. John Harper, and has since been on half-pay.

Lieut. Worsley married Harriet, daughter of Lieut. Hamer, R.N., and has issue. – Hallett and Robinson.

 WORTH. 

, born in 1803, is son of Capt. Jas. Andrew Worth, R.N., C.B. (1810), who died in Aug. 1841; and grandson of the late Rear-Admiral Jas. Worth. He had a brother, a Captain in the 84th Regt., who died at Port Royal, Jamaica, in 1827.

This officer entered the Navy, 22 Jan. 1813, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, commanded by his father, as Flag-Captain to Rear-Admiral Philip Chas. Durham, off Rochefort. Towards the close of the same year he sailed with those officers for the West Indies, as Midshipman, in the 74. During the passage he was afforded an opportunity of assisting at the capture, 16 and 20 Jan. 1814, with but trifling loss to the British, of the French 40-gun frigates Iphigénie and Alcmène. He returned to England with Capt. Worth, in 1815, in the 38; and was employed next, in the Channel, on the coast of Ireland, and in the East Indies, in the  104, Capt. Jas. Nash, 74, Capt. Wm. Broughton, 20, Capt. Timothy Scriven,  74, Capts. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild and Sir Chas. Dashwood, 50, Commodore Chas. Grant, and 84, Capt. Mark John Currie. On the paying off of the, in which ship and the he had been acting as Lieutenant, he was presented with a commission bearing date 20 Aug. 1824. His succeeding appointments were – 18 Jan. 1825, to the 74, Capts. Wm. Cumberland and Walter Bathurst, employed in the Channel and on the coast of Portugal – 20 Dec. 1827 (a few weeks after he had left the ), again to the, Capt. Edw. Durnford King, lying at Plymouth – 1 Nov. 1828, to the 76, Capt. Wm. Parker, also at Plymouth – 22 Jan. 1829, to the 78, Capts. John Ferris Devonshire and Sam. Pym, in which ship he returned to the Mediterranean – 29 July, 1831, as Senior, to the 10, Capt. Chas. Henry Swinburne, on the latter station, whence he came home and was paid off in July, 1833 – 11 Dec. 1833, in a similar capacity, to the 50, Capt. Sir Sam. Roberts, under whom he was afresh, for nearly three years, employed in the Mediterranean and off Lisbon – and, 26 Nov. 1836, again as First, to the 46, Capt. Thos. Ball Sulivan, fitting for South America. He was promoted to the rank of Commander 10 Jan. 1837; and on 1 Feb. 1838 he was appointed, in that capacity, to the 72, Capts. Fras. Erskine Loch and John Lawrence. Under Capt. Loch he escorted the Earl of Durham