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1334 Capt. Dashwood. He again, toth in the and, held the rating of Master’s Mate. In the latter ship he accompanied the expedition against New Orleans. During the operations there he was employed on shore with the army; and on the night of 1 Jan. 1815 displayed so much exertion in withdrawing the guns from the advanced position that he attracted the notice of the military Commander-in-Chief, Sir Edw. Pakenham, who promised to recommend him for promotion to the Admiralty. On the night of the 8th he crossed over to the west side of the Mississippi, and assisted at the storming of three batteries. In Feb. 1815 he was present on shore at the taking of Fort Bowyer, Mobile. We may add that, during his career afloat, he was a constant volunteer whenever any land-service was to be performed. In Aug. 1815, on the return of the to England, the fatigue he had undergone had induced a state of such general debility that he was under the necessity of being sent to the hospital at Haslar. He was presented at the same time with a commission bearing date 2 Feb. 1815. He has since been on half-pay.

In the attack above mentioned upon Griessee Lieut. Teats received so severe an injury in the right foot that part of the bone came out. He is married, and has issue eight children. – Frederick Dufaur.

 YELVERTON. 

See, who assumed the surname of Yelveston 15 Jan. 1849.

 YOLLAND. 

died 25 March, 1848, at Stoke, near Devonport, aged 42.

This officer entered the Navy 17 May, 1820; passed his examination in 1826; and was made Lieutenant, 19 May, 1828, into the 46, Capt. Williams Sandom, on the Jamaica station, whence he returned to England and was paid off in Oct. 1829. His next and last appointments were, 16 Dec. 1834 and 1 July, 1835, to the 20 and  28, Capts, John M‘Dougall and Lord Viscount Ingestre, employed off Lisbon and in the Mediterranean. The, of which he was the greater part of the time First-Lieutenant, was put out of commission in the spring of 1837.

Lieut. Yolland married, in 1837, Catherine Eliza, only daughter of Mrs. Gifford, of Portman-square.

 YONGE. 

is youngest son of the late Rev. Jas. Yonge, of Puslinch, Rector of Newton Ferrars; and brother-in-law of Lord Seaton, G.C.B.

This officer entered the Navy, 12 Aug. 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 36, Capt. Zachary Mudge, lying at Plymouth. In the following Oct. he removed to the 38, Capt. Wm. Parker; and in Feb. 1812 he joined the 38, Capt. Rich. Dalling Dunn. In the two latter frigates, of which he was the greater part of the time Midshipman, he assisted at the capture of several privateers and other vessels, afforded support to the patriot cause on the north coast of Spain, and was engaged in occasional skirmishes with the enemy’s batteries while watching the harbours of Brest and L’Orient. In Oct. 1812 he followed Capt. Dunn into the 74, in which ship, commanded next by Capt. Thos. Elphinstone, we find him for nearly two years employed among the Western Islands and in the Channel. At the end of that period he joined in succession, as a Supernumerary-Midshipman, the, , and , commanded at Plymouth by Capts. Jas. Nash and Robt. Hall. He also served for a short time on board the 74, Capt. Alex. Wilmot Schomberg. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 6 March, 1815; and was subsequently appointed – 16 Aug. 1815, to the 36, Capt. Jas. Whitley Deans Dundas, fitting for the Mediterranean, whence he invalided in Juljs 1818 – 4 April, 1824, to the 120, flag-ship of Sir Jas. Saumarez at Plymouth – 26 Feb. 1826, as Senior, to the 28, Capt. Jas. Stirling, whom he accompanied to the East Indies – 26 Dec. following, as Acting-Captain, to the 28, in which ship he proceeded from Sydney to South America – 14 March, 1827, for a passage home, to the  46, Capt. Wm. Bowen Mends – 15 Nov. in the same year, to the 18, Capt. John Milligen Laws, with whom he returned to India – and,. 5 March, 1828, again, as before, to the, Capts. John Fitzgerald Studdert and Wm. Clarke Jervoise. On 28 Nov. 1829 the grounded on a reef off the south end of Pulo-Carnac, Western Australia; five days elapsed before she could be got off; and she was then, by the unparalleled efforts of her officers and crew, warped a distance of seven miles into Cockburn Sound, where she was hove down, keel out. So serious had been the injuries she had sustained, and so slender were the resources at hand, that it took four months to render her fit for sea. After reporting the circumstances connected with this event, Capt. Jervoise, in a letter addressed to the Commander-in-Chief, expresses himself thus:– “I trust. Sir, I may be permitted to avail myself of this occasion to recommend to your notice Mr. Yonge, the Senior Lieutenant of this ship, whose conduct I cannot too strongly appreciate or admire for his ability and unremitting attentions, and whose great assistance and exertions in his promptness to second my efforts exceed any encomiums I could bestow. Much of this arduous service naturally devolved on this valuable officer, who is of some standing, and well known to many of the first officers in the service, whose esteem he possesses.” As a reward for his conduct, Mr. Yonge was promoted to the rank of Commander by a commission bearing date 10 Feb. 1830. He did not, however, leave the until 1 March, 1831. In Dec. 1833, having been appointed Second-Captain of the 74, bearing the flag of Sir John Gore in the East Indies, he was ordered a passage to that station in the  28, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads; but he was not afforded an opportunity of joining the  until Nov. 1834. He was in consequence on board the when, in company with the, she forced the passage of the Boca Tigris, in China, 7 and 9 Sept. in the latter year. He was paid off from the in July, 1835; and was afterwards, from 17 Nov. 1840 until 26 Jan. 1842, employed with his former Captain (now Sir Jas.), Stirling, in the  78, on the Mediterranean and Lisbon stations. He has since been on half-pay. His Post-commission bears date 23 Nov. 1841.

Capt. Yonge married, in 1835, Jane Lee, second daughter of John R. Bennet, Esq., of Standwell, Totnes, co. Devon, by whom he has issue. – Hallett and Robinson.

 YONGE. 

is third son of the late Rev. Duke Yonge, Vicar of Antony, co. Cornwall; grandson of the Rev. Duke Yonge, Vicar of Cornwood, who married a daughter of Sir Thos. Crawley Boevey, Bart., of Flaxley Abbey, co. Gloucester; and nephew of Capt. Geo. Crawley, R.N., who died in 1810.

This officer entered the Navy in 1832; passed his examination 11 Aug. 1833; served in the Mediterranean, at Plymouth, on the North America and West India station, and again in the Mediterranean, as Mate, in the 104 and  120, flag-ships of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford and Sir Graham Moore, 18, Capt, Chas. Keele, and 50, Capt. Provo Wm. Parry Wallis; and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 28 May, 1845. He was appointed, 16 Oct. following, to the steam surveying-vessel, Capt. Henry Mangles Denham, on the coast of Africa; and has been employed, since 2 March, 1847, in the  110, Capts. Sir Henry John Leeke and Henry Wm. Bruce, at Devonport and on his former station, the Mediterranean.

