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DERKIMAN—DERRY—DE SAUSMAREZ—DESPOURRINS—DE STARCK. DERRIMAN. 

entered the Navy 14 Feb. 1829; passed his examination 1 Sept. 1835; and was, promoted, from a Mateship in the 60; flag-ship in the Pacific of Rear-Admiral Rich. Thomas, to the rank he now holds 18 Nov. 1842. He continued to serve in the latter ship, as Additional-Lieutenant, until 28 Dec. 1844; and since that period .has been employed, as First, in the steam-sloop, Capt. And. Snape Hammond, on the same and Home stations.

 DERRY. 

entered the.Navy, 18 Nov 1777, as A.B., on board the 74, Capt. Sir John Hamilton, on the Channel station; became Midshipman, in 1782, of the  74, Capt. Philip Dumaresq, in the West Indies; served, in 1785-6, off Milford, on board the, Lieut.-Commander John Crymes; was employed, from June, 1789, to Nov. 1790, in the  98, flag-ship of Sir Rich. Bickerton, and frigate, Capt. Albermarle Bertie, both attached to the fleet in the Channel; and, with the latter officer, successively Joiped, in May, 1792, and Feb. 1794, the  and  74’s. For his conduct, as Master’s Mate of the, in Lord Howe’s action of 1 June, he was promoted, 22 Aug. following, to a Lieutenancy in the same ship, in which he continued until 19 March, 1795. Between 4 May, 1796, and 17 Oct. 1798, Mr. Derry next served, on the West India and Home stations, in the, Capt. Wm. Geo. Rutherford, 74, Capt. Peter Aplin,  98, Capt. John Holloway, and Expedition armée en flûte, Capts. John Stile’s, Home Riggs Popham, and Sir Thos. Livingstone. His last employment was, as Lieutenant, from 16 June, 1805, to 13 March, 1806, of the bomb, Capt. Edw. Killwick, stationed in the Downs. He became a Retired Commander on the Junior List 26 Nov. 1830, and on the Senior 23 Sept. 1831.

 DE SAUSMAREZ. 

entered the Navy 6 April, 1812; and obtained his first commission 10 May, 1824. He was afterwards appointed – 13 Aug. following, to the 120, as. Flag-Lieutenant to Jas. Sausmarez, Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth and, 1 Feb. 1828, and 25 Jan. 1830, to the and  frigates, Capts. Chas. Philip Yorke and Geo. Bennie, both employed on Particular Service. He assumed his present rank on 23 July in the latter year; and, from 23 Nov. following until Feb. 1832, when he invalided home from New South Wales, commanded the sloop. He has since then been on half-pay. – J. Hinxman.

 DE SAUSMAREZ. 

entered the Navy, 18 June, 1823, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 78, Capt. Sir Chas. Burrard, flag-ship of Sir Harry Neale, Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean, where he continued until May, 1827 – serving intermediately, as Midshipman, in the 18, Capt. Robt. Stuart, and 10, Capt. Wemyss. In March, 1828, after an interim attachment, at Portsmouth and Plymouth, to the 28, Capt. Lord Hen. John Spencer Churchill, and 120, flag-ship of the Earl of Northesk, he returned to the former station, on board the  46, Capt. Edm. Lyons; and in the following Oct., by the erection of batteries and otherwise, he co-operated with the French in the reduction of Morea Castle, the last hold of the Turks in the Peloponnesus. Having passed his examination 11 Aug. 1829, Mr. De Sausmarez, who left the in Sept. 1830, was promoted, 3 Oct, 1831, to a Lieutenancy in the  18, Capt. Rich. Meredith, stationed off the coast of Africa. We subsequently find him appointed – 18 June and 13 Sept. 1834, to the 120, flag-ship of Sir Josias Rowley, and  50, Capt. Sir Sam. Roberts, respectively employed on the Mediterranean and Lisbon stations – and, 16 Nov. 1841, after an interval of exactly five years’ half-pay, to the troop-ship, Capt. John Kingcome. Previously to the latter vessel being put out of commission in Sept. 1843, he appears to have been present during the operations in the Yang-tse-Kiang in 1842, and at the pacification of Nanking. Commander De Sausmarez assumed his present rank 25 July, 1845. He has not since been employed.

He married, 30 April, 1840, Jane Maria, only child of the late Lieut.-Colonel F. Barlow, of H.M. 61st, who fell at Salamanca at the head of his regiment. By that lady he has issue.

 DESPOURRINS. 

entered the Navy, 30 Sept. 1787, as a Servant, on board the 20, Capts. Hon, Mich. De Courcy. and John, Aylmer; under the former of whom, we believe, he soon afterwards, as Midshipman, escorted clear of the Channel the first party of convicts ever sent to New South Wales. In July, 1793, he rejoined Capt. De Courcy, as Master’s Mate, in the 32; on removing from. which ship to the 74, Capt. Thos. Drury, he assisted at the capture, in the course of 1796, of the island of Ste. Lucie, and of the French frigates La Favorite of 22, and La Renommée of 44 guns. After a continued servitude of 14 months in the West Indies on board the 64, Capts. Wm. Geo. Rutherford and Thos. Western, and 98, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Henry Harvey, he was promoted, 27 Dec. 1797, to a Lieutenancy in the  54. In that ship (with the exception of a few months. In 1801, when he was lent to the 74, Capt. Lord Edw. O’Bryen, off Alexandria) he continued to serve, under Capts. John Dilkes, Chas. Hare, Thos. Briggs, and Chas. Marsh Schomberg, on the Home, East India, and Mediterranean stations, until July, 1807. We subsequently find him employed, from 14 Dec. 1807 to 15 June, 1808, and from 16 April, 1810, to 26 Jan. 1812 as First-Lieutenant of the 74, and of the  – the former ship commanded by Capt. Edw. Rotheram in the Channel fleet. Coimnander Despourrins, who has not since been afloat, was placed on the Junior List of Retired Commanders 1 Dec. 1830, and was promoted to the Senior List 1 June, 1841.

 DE STARCK. 

is son of the late Chas. Sigismond, Baron De Starck (an officer in the Imperial Austrian army, previous to his settling in England in 1753), by Martha, sister of Admiral the late Sir Chaloner Ogle, Bart., and great-aunt of the late Earl Grey.

This officer entered the Navy in June, 1780, as part of the Admiral’s retinue, on board the 98, Capt. Benj. Hill, bearing the flag in the Channel of the Hon. Sam. Barrington. In Sept. following he removed, as Midshipman, to the 32, commanded by the late Lord Hugh Seymour, then the Hon. Capt. Conway; with whom, on being transferred to the  38, he served at the relief of Gibraltar in 1782. Between April, 1783, and the receipt of his first commission, bearing date 20 Nov. 1790, we next find Mr. De Starck employed, on the Home, African, and Mediterranean stations, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate of the 74, Capt. Hon. Jas. Luttrell, and, bearing the broad pendants respectively of Commodores Edw. Thompson and Sir Andw. Snape Hamond, 32, Capt. Hon. Seymour Finch, and  74, Hon. Capt. .