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DAYMAN—DEACON—DEALY—DEANE. close of the latter year he Bailed for Cadiz with Sir John Duckworth in the 74; and, on proceeding soon afterwards to the West Indies in the  80, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Louis, bore a part in the battle off St. Domingo, 6 Feb. 1806. During the next six months Mr. Day officiated as Acting-Lieutenant of the ; but at the end of that period, being unconfirmed by the Admiralty, he became Master’s Mate of the 98, Capt. Chas. Boyles, under whom he witnessed Sir Sam. Hood’s capture of four French frigates off Rochefort, 25 Sept. 1806, and was present at the passage of the Dardanells in Feb. 1807. In the following April he joined the 50, Capts. Thos. Seccombe, John Clavell, Henry Hope, and Geo. Miller Bligh; and, after again serving as Acting-Lieutenant in that ship for the space of five months, was at length formally promoted, by commission dated 21 Dec. 1808. From 22 May, 1809, until 6 March, 1813, he next served, still on the Mediterranean station, as First of the 18, under the command of various officers. His last war-appointment was, on 17 Sept. 1813, to the 22, Capt. Rich. Arthur, employed off Gibraltar and Lisbon, whence he returned home early in 1815. He subsequently, in 1841-2, commanded the steamer; and on 3 Nov. 1846 accepted the rank he now holds.

 DAYMAN. 

is son of the late Rev. Chas. Dayman, Rector of Great Tew, co. Oxford.

This officer entered the Navy 21 Oct. 1831; and passed his examination 1 1 May, 1838. In 1839 he was appointed Mate of the bomb, Capt. Jas. Clark Ross; and, on his return home from a four years’ explorative mission to the Antarctic Seas, he was promoted to the rank he now holds 4 Oct. 1843. He was next employed in the survey of the coast of Ireland, from 23 July, 1845, until the close of 1846, as Lieutenant of the steamer, Capt. Jas. Wolfe.

 DEACON. 

entered the Navy, 3 Nov. 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 38, Capt. Thos. Byam Martin, stationed in the Channel; removed, in May, 1802, to the 74, Capt. John Okes Hardy; and, from the following July until Nov. 1806, served with Capt. Wm. Parker, part of the time as Midshipman, in the 32, and  38. In July, 1803, and Sept. 1805, the latter vessel captured the privateers Le Félix of 16, and Principe de la Paz of 24 guns; she also, in the summer of 1805, accompanied Lord Nelson to the West Indies in pursuit of the combined fleets of France and Spain; and on 13 March, 1806, when in company with the 98, had 3 men killed and 6 wounded, at the capture, after a long running fight, of the 80-guu ship Marengo, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule. Mr. Deacon, in the 64, Capt. Henry Wm. Bayntun,- subsequently conoperated, as Master’s Mate, in Lieut.-General Whitelocke’s unfortunate attempt to recover Buenos Ayres in July, 1807; after which, on his transference, as Acting-Lieutenant, to the cutter, Lieut.-Commander Henry Taylor, he assisted at the hard-wrought capture of a French letter-of-marque of much superior force; and then sailed for the Cape of Good Hope. Being officially promoted on 24 Feb. 1808, he next joined the, Capt. Jas. Tomkinson; and on 27 April, 1809, was appointed to the 36, Capts. Robt. Corbet and Nesbit Josiah Willoughby; under the former of whom he took, in Aug. following, two batteries, commanding the anchorage of Ste. Rose, on the eastern side of the island of Bourbon, and contributed to the ensuing reduction of the town of St. Paul’s. Under the gallant Willoughby, Mr. Deacon was slightly wounded in a dashing attack made on the enemy’s batteries and troops at Jacotel, in the Mauritius, 1 May, 1810. He also aided, in July following, at the capture of Ile Bourbon; and on 17 Aug. he landed at the storming of a fort on Pointe du Diable, Isle of France – immediately subsequent to which achievement we find him assuming the command of three boats, and covering Capt. Willoughby and his party in their march alongshore to Grand Port. Mr. Deacon was next on board the when she compelled the enemy’s sloop Victor to surrender, and exchanged broadsides .with the 40-gun frigate Minerve; and he was again most severely wounded in the throat, breast, legs, and arms, during a series of unhappy though heroic operations, which, by the 28th of the month last mentioned, terminated in the self-destruction, in Port Sud-Est, of the British frigates  and, and the capture, by a French squadron, of the  and , – the former, after being reduced to a mere wreck, and incurring a loss in killed and wounded of nearly her whole crew. Mr. Deacon, whose sufferings for a long time endangered his life, regained his liberty on the reduction of the Mauritius in Dec. following. He was subsequently appointed, 28 May, 1811, and 10 March, 1812, to the 74, and  44, Capts. Walter Bathurst and Geo. Digby, on the Mediterranean station; and on 7 June, 1814, was promoted to the command of the 38, armée en flûte. While in that vessel, which he paid off 14 March, 1816, Capt. Deacon conveyed the sick of the Russian Imperial Guards to Cronstadt, in acknowledgment for which service the Emperor, among other marks of favour, presented him with a ring: and he was also with Sir Philip Durham at the capture of Guadeloupe in 1815. His promotion to Post-rank took place 2 April, 1817; and his acceptance of the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846.

 DEALY. 

entered the Navy, 7 Nov. 1807, as A.B., on board the 74, Capt. Fras. Pickmore, on the West India station; where, in the, , and , he assisted, under the Hon. Geo. Alfred Crofton, at the reduction of the islands of St. Thomas, Sta. Croix, Marie-galante, and Martinique. From April, 1810, until Sept. 1814, he was next most actively employed, on the Baltic and North American stations, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate of the 10, and  16, both commanded by Capt. Geo. Edw. Watts; participating, during that period, in many warm encounters with the enemy, and witnessing the capture of a vast number of armed and other vessels, as also of the towns of Benedict and Marlborough in the Chesapeake. After being detained for about two months as a prisoner on board the American privateer Fox Mr. Dealy was appointed Acting-Master of the sloop, Copt. John Fisher; subsequently to which he served for nearly two years in the East Indies as Admiralty-Midshipman, and again, as Second Master, in the 36, Capt. John Clavell, and  20, Capt. Hon. Jas. Ashley Maude. In Jan. 1818 he was transferred, from the 74, Capt. Chas. Ekins, to the, Capt. David Buchon, whom he accompanied on a perilous voyage of discovery to the neighbourhood of Spitzbergen. After a further attachment of. three months to the 74, bearing the flag of Sir John Gore at Chatham, Mr. Dealy, in May, 1819, sailed in the  sloop, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Edw. Parry, on another mission to the Frozen Regions, where he penetrated to long. 113° 54' 43" W. within the Arctic Circle, and thereby became entitled to a portion of a Parliamentary reward of 5000l. conferred on the expedition. He was also promoted, on his arrival home, to the rank of Lieutenant, by commission dated 26 Dec. 1820; but since that period has remained unemployed.

 DEANE. 

entered the Navy 6 April, 1829; passed his examination 12 Nov. 1836; and served for a considerable time on the South