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ARKWRIGHT—ARMITAGE—ARMYTAGE—ARNOLD—ARROW. Geo. Munday, he witnessed the fall of San Schastian, and assisted at the capture, 17 March, 1814, of L’Alcyon, of 16 guns and 120 men. Joining next the 40, Capts. Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer, Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer, and Wm. M‘Culloch, he took part in the battle of Algiers, 27 Aug. 1816, and was afterwards, until the date of his promotion, 31 March, 1818, employed in the Coast Blockade. Since that period (with the exception of a servitude in the Coast Guard – from 29 Jan. 1836, until 1840) Mr. Arguimbau has been on half-pay. – Holmes and Folfcard.

 ARKWRIGHT. 

, born 6 March, 1821, is seventh son of Peter Arkwright, Esq., of Rock House, near Matlock, a magistrate for the county of Derby, by Mary Anne, daughter of Chas. Hurt, Esq., of Wicksworth; brother of Ferdinand Wm. Arkwright, Esq., a Lieutenant in the Army; and grandson of the late wealthy Rich. Arkwright, Esq., of Willersley, co. Derby.

This officer entered the Navy in 1833, and passed his examination 14 Oct. 1840. He afterwards served as Mate, on the Africa, Mediterranean, and Home stations, of the 10, Lieut.-Commander Chas. Horace Lapidge, schooner,  surveying-vessel, Capt. Thos. Saumarez Brock, and 110, bearing the flag of Sir John Chambers, White. He obtained his commission 6 Feb. 1845, and, since 17 May following, has been employed in the 120, Capts. Wm. Fanshawe Martin and John Neale Nott.

 ARMITAGE. 

is a younger son of Whaley Armitage, Esq., of Coole and Drumin, co. Louth, barrister-at-law, by Eleanora, eldest daughter and co-heir of the late Edw. Haistwell, Esq., of Kensington; and grand-nephew of the late Gen. Sir John Braithwaite, Bart., Commander-in-Chief at Madras.

This officer entered the Royal Naval College 24 June, 1822; and embarked, 3 June, 1824, on board the 28, Capts. Fred. Hunn and Lord Henry John Spencer Churchill. After visiting the West Indies and Cape of Good Hope, he became successively Mate, on the former and North and South America stations, of the 28, Capt. Hon. Wm. Wellesley, 18, Capt. Thos. Metcalfe Currie, 18, Capt. Henry Ommanney Love,  5, Lieut.-Commander Jas. Bolton, 44, Capt. Watkin Owen Pell,  36, Capt. Hon. Henry John Rous, and  18, Capt. Chas. Eden. While in the, in 1833, we find Mr. Armitage assisting at the capture, after a running fight of an hour, of the armed slavers Joaquina and Mannalita. Obtaining his commission, 27 Dec. 1838, he was subsequently appointed – 18 March, 1839, to the 72, fiag-ship at the Cape of Hon. Geo. Elliot – 6 July, 1839, to the command for a few months of the 3, on the same station – and, 31 Oct. 1840, to the  84, Capt. Sam. Chambers, in the Mediterranean. He has been on half-pay since the autumn of 1839. – Joseph Woodhead.

 ARMYTAGE. 

passed his examination 28 Oct. 1840; and served as Mate, on the East India station, of the 26, Capt. Jas. Scott, 18, Capt. Hon. Henry Keppel, and  72, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker. During the operations on the coast of China, he proved himself entitled to the best acknowledgments of Capt. Jas. Scott, for the gallantry and zeal he displayed at the forcing of the inner passage from Macao to Whampoa (a navigation never before traversed by European boat or vessel); in their advance on which place, the British, whose force consisted of the steamer, and the boats of the, destroyed, between 3 a.m. on 13, and 4 p.m. on 15 March, 1841, five forts, one battery, two military stations, and nine war-junks, in which, collectively, were 115 guns and 8 ginjalls. He acquired the rank he now holds, 3 Feb. 1845; and, since 24 March in that year, has been attached to the steam-sloop, Capt. Geo. Wm. Douglas O’Callaghan, on the South America and West India station.

 ARNOLD. 

entered the Navy, 21 Sept. 1803, as Master’s Mate, on board the 74, Capts. Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge and John Halliday. Under the former officer, he took part in Sir Robt. Calder’s action, 22 July, 1805, was present at the passage of the Dardanells in Feb. 1807, and accompanied the expedition to Flushing in Aug. 1809. After a further servitude in the 110, Capt. Rich. John Neve, he obtained a commission, dated 4 May, 1810, and was next appointed, on the Home station – 24 Oct. 1810, to the 74, Capt. Jas. Walker – in May, 1813, to the command of the tender – 12 Jan. 1814, to the  74, Capt. Benj. Wm. Page – and, 17 Aug. 1822, to the Coast Guard. He has been employed, since 12 June, 1846, in the 80, guard-ship at Sheerness, Capt. Rich. Arthur. – Hallett and Robinson.

 ARNOLD. 

was born 4 Nov. 1784.

This officer entered the Navy, 11 Aug. 1798, as Midshipman, on board the 80, Capt. Sir Wm. Sidney Smith. In the following year he assisted in the gun-boats and batteries at the defence of St. Jean d’Acre; and, on afterwards attending the expedition of 1801 to Egypt, served on shore with the naval brigade, commanded a gun-boat up the Nile bearing the broad pendant of Sir W. S. Smith, and was present at the surrender of Rosetta and of the castle of Jullien. In June, 1805, after a successive attachment of rather more than two years to the 36, Capt. Wm. Robt. Broughton, and, flag-ships of Rear-Admiral Edw. Thombrough, and 50, Commodore Sir W. S. Smith, all on the Home station, Mr. Arnold was appointed Acting-Lieutenant of the  12, Capt. Bushby, off Boulogne, where, on 6 Aug. in the same year, he became Sub-Lieutenant of the  gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander John Price. During the next 20 months we find him sharing in numerous engagements with the enemy’s flotilla and batteries; but more particularly on 29 Jan. 1807, when he received a woimd so severe as to elicit from the Patriotic Society a gratuity of 30l. Being promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 27 March following, in the 18, Capt. Wm. Peake, he next joined in that capacity, 16 Sept. 1808, the 80, bearing the flag in South America of his old Captain, Sir W. S. Smith. While subsequently in the Transport service, in which he continued from 1809 to 1815, Mr. Arnold served with the Walcheren expedition, and was employed as Principal Agent at Oporto, Alicant, Bilboa, and finally at Bordeaux, where he embarked the British army for America and England. Having been on half-pay since the peace, he at length, on 19 July, 1842, accepted the rank he now holds.

Commander Arnold married, in 1813, Miss Rawstorne, niece of Sir Michael Pilkington, Bart.

 ARROW. 

entered the Navy, 1 April, 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Wm. Johnstone Hope, flag-ship afterwards of Sir Rich. Bickerton, in which he escorted Sir Ralph Abercromby from Gibraltar to Egypt, and took part, as Midshipman, in the campaign of 1801. He removed, in Oct. 1803, to the 38, Capt. Rich. Hussey Moubray, on the Home station; officiated afterwards, from 22 May to 21 July, 1806, as Acting-Lieutenant of the 18, Capt. Hen.