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CRAWFORD—CRAWLEY—CREAGH.  – whose next appointments were, 19 Jan. 1810, and 28 Oct. 1811, to the 74, and  80, both commanded hy the late Sir Benj. Hallowell Carew – serving at the blockade of Toulon, and co-operating with the patriots on the coast of Catalonia, where he was present at the siege of Tarragona in 1811. He was promoted to the rank of Commander on leaving the, 23 March, 1815; appointed to the 18, on the West India station, 8 Dec. 1827; and posted into the  receiving-ship at Port Royal, Jamaica, 5 Jan. 1829. He invalided home in the course of the same year; and has not since been afloat.

Capt. Crawford received a pecuniary reward during the war from the Patriotic Society. He married, in Jan. 1831, Sophia, daughter of the Rev. Jas. Mockler, of Rockville, co. Cork. – Coplands and Burnett.

 CRAWFORD. 

entered the Navy, 17 Oct. 1803, as A.B., on board the 50, Capts. Geo. Argles and Brian Hodgson, stationed off the coast of France, where he was for some time in constant collision with the Boulogne flotilla, and assisted, as Midshipman, at three different bombardments of Havre. Being lent, in July, 1807, to the 64, Capt. Joshua Rowley Watson, he partook of the ensuing operations against Copenhagen; and on afterwards joining the  64, Capt. Thos. Ussher, he was employed in the gun-boat service at the siege of Flushing in Aug. 1809. Passing his examination in Feb. 1810, Mr. Crawford further served, until June, 1815, as Master’s Mate and Acting-Lieutenant, and again as Midshipman, on board the 36, Capt. John Tower, off Guernsey,  38, Capts. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave and Gordon Thos. Falcon, on the Lisbon station, 44, Capt. John Tailour (in which he visited America), and  74, flag-ship at the Cape of Good Hope of Rear-Admiral Chas. Tyler. He has not since been employed. His commission bears date 1 Feb. 1815.

 CRAWFORD. 

entered the Navy 1 Aug. 1814; and, when Midshipman of the, was wounded in command of a prize, and officially noticed for his gallantry in beating off, after an action of two hours, a piratical vessel of far superior force. He passed his examination in 1821; obtained his first commission 22 Sept. 1826; and was subsequently appointed – 3 April, 1830, to the 78, Capt. John Dick, at Sheerness – 17 May, 1831, to the command of the  brig, on the coast of Africa – and, 31 March, 1838, to an agency for transports afloat. For his services as a volunteer during the Chinese campaign, Mr. Crawford was advanced to the rank he now holds 23 Dec. 1842. He assumed command, 7 Sept. 1844, of the 12, which sloop, after intermediately cruizing for the suppression of the slave-traffic in the Mozambique Channel, he paid off in 1846. He is now unemployed. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 CRAWFORD. 

entered the Navy, 21 July, 1799, as a Boy, on board the, Capt. Robt. Honyman, with whom he continued uninterruptedly to serve, in the, , and frigates, until March, 1806. During that period he accompanied the expedition to Holland in 1799, received a wound in action with the Boulogne flotilla in 1804, and was present at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope in Jan. 1806. He then successively became Acting-Lieutenant of the 50, Capts. Joseph Edmonds and Hugh Downman, and 64, Capts. Ross Donnelly and Edwin Henry Chamberlayne; in which ships we find him co-operating in the attacks on Buenos Ayres and Monte Video. On being confirmed by the Admiralty, 17 Dec. 1807, Mr. Crawford joined the brig, Capt. Geo. Morris, and in that vessel was wrecked on the ice, near Malmo, 11 Jan. 1809. His subsequent appointments afloat were – in May, 1809, and Feb. 1810, to the 74, Capt. Wm. Cumberland, and 10, Capt. Geo. Edw. Watts, both in the Baltic – and, in Jan. 1812, to the sloop, Capt. Geo. Ferguson, stationed in the Mediterranean. When Senior of the he commanded her boats at the destruction, 27 May, 1810, of a privateer, the Swan, of 6 24-pounders and 35 men, off the island of Lassoe; and, on another occasion, he was sent into the port of Ronne, whence he brought out a new ship, the Success, laden with wheat and linen, amidst a heavy and incessant fire from the batteries and two privateers, the latter of which were driven back with the loss of 15 men killed and wounded. Commander Crawford, whose last official appointment appears to have been to the command of a Signal station in co. Cork, which he retained from March, 1813, to Dec. 1815, assumed the rank he now holds 21 Dec. 1844. He was presented, during the war, with a sum of money from the Patriotic Fund.

 CRAWFORD. 

entered the Navy 28 April, 1824; passed his examination 2 June, 1830; and was serving in the Mediterranean, as Mate of the 92, Capt. Robt. Maunsell, when promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 23 Nov. 1841. He then joined the 104, Capt. Thos. Forrest, on the same station; where he removed, 14 Oct. 1812, to the 38, Capt. Hon. Geo. Grey. He was paid off from that ship in the early part of 1845, and since 2 Dec. following has been employed on particular service as First of the Scourge steam-sloop, Capt. Jas. Crawford Caffin.

 CRAWLEY. 

entered the Navy 4 Aug. 1825; passed his examination in 1832; obtained his commission 28 June, 1838; and, from 28 May, 1839, until the summer of 1843, served on the coast of Africa on board the 16, Capts. Chas. Deare, John Jas. Allen, and Geo. Baker. He has been employed since 11 May, 1846, as First of the and  steamers, Capts. Woodford John Williams and John Robb, attached to the Channel squadron. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 CRAWLEY. 

was made a Lieutenant 5 Dec. 1778; and attained his present rank 31 Jan. 1814. He is the senior officer on the list of Retired Commanders. – Goode and Lawrence.

 CREAGH. 

, horn in 1798, is fourth son of the late Jas. Creagh, Esq., of Carrigerry, co. Clare. His elder brother, Charles, is a Major of the Clare Militia; and his youngest, Giles, holds the same rank in the 81st regiment; two others, Andrew and Boyle, both deceased, were Lieutenants, the former in the 8th Hussars, and the latter in the Royal Artillery.

This officer entered the Navy, 1 March, 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 38, commanded by the late Sir Peter Parker; with whom, after receiving a wound in action with a Danish flotilla, he removed, in May, 1810, to the  38. Continuing in that frigate until the death of Capt. Parker, in Aug. 1814, he served, as Midshipman, at the blockade of Toulon, and took part in many stirring scenes both on the Mediterranean and American stations. He then joined the 36, Capt. Edm. Palmer; was present in the attacks on Washington and Baltimore; and, while in <section end="Creagh, James"/>