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DODD—DOLLING. 32, Capt. Sam. Hood Inglefield. While subsequently attached with Capt. Cumby, between 26 March, 1811, and 3 Jan. 1814, to the 42, he visited, as Master’s Mate, the latitude of Greenland, for the protection of the fisheries – was for four months frozen up in the harbour of St. John’s, Newfoundland, during the winter of 1812 – and on two occasions was sent away in charge of prizes of 400 and 500 tons each. Having passed his examination on 12 Dec. in the latter year, he was promoted, on leaving the, to a Lieutenancy in the 100, Capts. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, Chas. Thurlow Smith, and Robt. Lambert, on the Mediterranean station. He was afterwards appointed – 17 Sept. 1814, to the 38, Capt. Joseph James, employed off the coast of Ireland and in the West Indies – 19 Dec. 1816, to the  10, Capt. Joseph Gedge, on the Home station, from which frigate he was paid off 25 Feb. 1817 – and, 3 April, 1823, as Senior Lieutenant, to the  20, Capts. Fred. Marryat and John Kingcome. In the early part of 1824 Mr. Dobson joined in the hostilities then commencing against the Burmese; and from that period, until the departure of the, in May, 1825, he was in continual mention by Capts. Alexander and Chads for his zealous exertions and cool intrepidity on all occasions. Among other operations, he was present at the capture of Rangoon and of Dallah, in May, 1824; and while in charge of the armed transport, had the command of all the shipping at Rangoon, and was most arduously and hazardously employed, from Aug. to Nov., 10 miles in advance of the other men-of-war, and three miles above the advanced position of the army. On 4 Aug. he assisted in capturing the fort of Syriam, where the natives had stockaded themselves. He was wounded in the hand in Sept., while contributing to the capture of Panlang; and in Oct. he distinguished himself in a brilliant and decisive attack on the fortified village of Than-ta-bain. From 30 Nov. to 9 Dec. we next discover Mr. Dobson, who still commanded the, constantly in collision with the enemy near Dallah; at the final assault on the works of which place he headed the soldiery, and was nearly the first to enter. On 6 Feb. 1825, he was further instrumental to the capture of a large 36-gun stockade at Than-ta-bain, by laying the in a position to enfilade the strongest of the enemy’s works; and from 5 March to 19 April he was intrusted with the command of the naval station at Panlang, and with the responsible duty of forwarding supplies for the whole combined force during its advance on Ava. As a reward for these important services he was promoted to the command, 25 July, 1825, of the Larne, which sloop, after visiting Van Diemen’s Land, New Zealand, and other places, he paid off, 4 April, 1827. Capt. Dobson’s next appointment was, 23 July, 1830, to the 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye, with whom he continued until the abolition of the Coast Blockade in May, 1831. He was subsequently employed as an Inspecting Commander in the Coast Guard, from 5 May, 1834, until July, 1837; but since his attainment of Post-rank, 23 Nov. 1841, has been on half-pay.

He married, 21 Nov. 1837, Marian Frances, only daughter of the late Capt. Edw. Lowther Crofton, R.N. – Hallett and Robinson.

 DODD. 

, born 27 Aug. 1787, is youngest son of the late Robt, Dodd, Esq., a celebrated marine painter. His maternal grandfather, a Master, R.N., died about 1791, at the advanced age of 95.

This officer entered the Navy, 24 July, 1805, as A.B., on board the 64, Capts. Jas. Macnamara and Donald Campbell, employed blockading the Dutch fleet in the Texel, and afterwards stationed in the Great Belt, where he appears to have been involved, during the Copenhagen expedition, in frequent skirmishes with the Danish gun-boats. Having attained the rating of Midshipman more than two years previously, he rejoined Capt. Macnamara, in March, 1808, on board the 74; while subsequently detached in the barge belonging to which ship, it was his fortune to be the first medium of communication between the Spanish army in Denmark, under the Marquis de la Romana, and the squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Rich. Goodwin Keats. On 9 Aug. in the same year, immediately previous to the embarkation and escape of those patriot troops from Nyeborg, he served in the ’s launch at the capture, after a gallant resistance, of a Danish brig, the Fama of 18, and her consort, the Salorman cutter of 12 guns. On next accompanying Capt. Macnamara into the 74, Mr. Dodd assisted, near Barfleur, in causing the self-destruction, 25 March, 1811, of the French 40-gun frigate L’Amazone. After an unemployed interval of 17 months, occasioned by ill health, he was appointed, 7 Jan. 1814, to the 74, Capt, Robt. Barrie, then in the, where he removed, 8 May following, to the 18, Capt. Geo. Edw. Watts, under whom he took part in several warm encounters with Commodore Barney’s flotilla, previous to its destruction on 22 Aug. Since his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 20 Jan. 1815, Mr. Dodd has been unemployed.

 DODD. 

entered the Navy, in Jan. 1797, as a Volunteer, on board the 44, armée en flûte, Capts. Aiskew Paffard Hollis and John Stephen, in which he served, on the Cape of Good Hope and Mediterranean stations, latterly as Midshipman, until April, 1802, From 17 March, 1803, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 27 June, 1809, we next find him employed in the East Indies, on board the 74, Capt. John Ferrier. He then joined the bomb, Capts. Jas. Caulfeild and Wm. Shepheard; and, after attending the expedition to Flushing, took part in the defence of Cadiz. He was subsequently appointed to the and  74’s, commanded on the North Sea and Baltic stations by Capts. Jas. Walker and Fras. Wm. Austen. Mr. Dodd has been on half-pay since Dec. 1813. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 DOLLING. 

, born 30 April, 1814, is son of Capt. Wm. Brooking Dolling, R.N. (1811), who died in 1843; nephew of Rear-Admiral Sam. Brooking, who died 22 April, 1834; and brother of Nicolas Lockyer Dolling, Esq., Assistant-Surgeon, R.N. (1841), now serving on board H.M.S..

This officer entered the Navy, 30 May, 1828, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, on the Mediterranean station; was transferred, 27 July, 1830, as Midshipman, to the 18, Capt. Joseph Harrison, off the coast of Africa; and returned to the Mediterranean in 1834, on board the  78, Capt. Wm. Elliott, Having passed his examination on 30 Dec. in the latter year, he was next appointed Mate, 2 Oct. 1836, of the 74, flag-ship off Lisbon of Sir Joshua Rowley – and 21 Oct. 1837, and 24 April, 1838, of his old ship the, Capt. Walter Croker, and of the  10, Lieut.-Commanders Wm. Sidney Thomas, Thos. Henry Mason, and John Currie Bynon, both on the East India station. During the late hostilities in China, Mr. Dolling was present at the first occupation of Chusan, and in the two attacks on Canton; on the latter of which occasions he was spoken of in the highest terms for his assistance at the destruction of a line of defence extending about two miles from the British factory. He was also, at the same period, mentioned for his co-operative conduct at the destruction of a fleet of more than 30 war-junks and fishing- vessels. After the 