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EVANS. the and Tweed, he served, on the North American station, latterly as Midshipman, until Dec. 1825. He then joined the 100, commanded at Portsmouth by Capt. Inglis, and, obtaining his commission 2 Jan. 1826, was employed in the Mediterranean as Lieutenant, from 12 Jlay, 1827, to Oct. 1830, of the  76, Capts. Norborne Thompson and Chas. Orlando Bridgeman. He has since been on half-pay.

Mr. Evans is Senior Lieutenant of 1826.

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entered tjie Navy, 11 Nov. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 18, Capts. Lucius Curtis, Philip Pipon, and Thos. Mansell, employed on the Mediterranean, Channel, and Baltic stations. He rejoined Capt. Curtis, as Midshipman, in 1809, on board the frigate, in which he visited the Cape of Good Hope; and during the last four years of the war he served, on various stations, in the  74, Capt. Sam. Jas. Ballard, 16, Capt. Dan. Ross, brig, Capt. Bertie Cornelius Cator, and  74, Capt. Zachary Mudge. Obtaining his commission 13 Feb. 1815, he was afterwards appointed – 8 July, 1819, to the 42, Capt. Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer, fitting at Chatham – 16 Jan. 1820, to the 74, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, on the South American and West India stations – 3 Oct. 1821, to the 74, Capt. Sir Thos. Livingstone, lying at Sheerness – 26 Nov. 1822, to the 74, Capts. Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen and Geo. Fred. Rich, in which ship he proceeded to the West Indies – 23 Dec. 1825, to the 10, Capt. Chas. Howe Fremantle, at Portsmouth – and, 1 Aug. 1826, as First-Lieutenant, to the 10, commanded, on the Cork station, by Capt. Chas. Crowdy. Since 1828 he has been unemployed. – Joseph Woodhead.

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entered the Navy, 5 Jan. 1786, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, guard-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Roger Curtis, and, in the following year, sailed for Newfoundland in the, Capt. Edw. Pakenham. From Feb. 1790, until April, 1795, he served on board the 64, Capt. Andrew Sutherland,  32, Capt. Patrick Sinclair, and  74, Capts. Robt. Mann and Davidge Gould; in which latter ship we find him successively employed at the occupation of Toulon in Aug. 1793; the capture, in the port of Genoa, of the 36-gun frigate La Modeste, 5 Oct. following; and in Hotham’s action, 14 March, 1795. He then became Acting-Lieutenant of the sloop, Capts. Seccombe, Stewart, and Temple; and, on 29 Dec. 1796, .was confirmed in the 32, Capt. Jas. Macnamara, to which vessel he had been transferred five months previously. During the period of Mr. Evans’ attachment to her, the appears to have been employed at the taking of Porto Ferrajo, the evacuation of Capreja and Corsica, in the expedition against Piombino, and at the siege of Castiglione. She also made prize of the Spanish brig-of-war El Corso, of 18 guns, and was one of the repeating frigates to the centre division of Sir John Jervis’ fleet, in the battle off Cape St. Vincent, 14 Feb. 1797. In Sept, of the latter year Mr. Evans joined the 74, Capt. Theophilus Jones, on the Channel station; where, and in the Baltic, he afterwards, from 26 Dec. 1798, until 22 Oct. 1801, commanded, with the exception of a few months in 1800, the  and. His subsequent appointments, we find, were – 29 May, 1804, to the 28, Capt. Philip Somerville, on the Halifax station, whence he invalided, 6 Nov. 1805 – 13 Feb. 1807, to the  74, Capt. Peter Puget, with whom he served in the ensuing operations against Copenhagen – 29 June, 1809, to the command of a gun-boat, in which he accompanied the expedition to the Scheldt – and, in Oct. following, to be Captain of the port of Flushing. He resigned the latter appointment on the evacuation of the Walcheren; and has since been unemployed. His acceptance of the rank of Retired Commander, on the Junior List, took place 1 Dec. 1830. He was promoted to the Senior List 23 April, 1838. – Messrs. Halford and Co.

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entered the Navy, in July, 1793, as Ordinary, on board the fire-ship, Capts. Wm. Bradley and Edw. Codrington, under the former of whom he took part in Lord Howe’s action of 1 June, 1794. Accompanying Capt. Codrington, as Coxswain, into the 22, he was next present in Lord Bridport’s encounter with the French fleet off Ile de Groix, 23 June, 1795; after which he served, as A.B. and Quartermaster, in the  and  98’s, flag-ships in the Channel of Sir Hugh Cloberry Christian, and, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, on the Mediterranean, West India, and Home stations, in the  armed transport, commanded at the reduction of Minorca by Capt. Richard Poulden, and in the  frigate, Capts. Robt. Williams and Wm. Domett. In Feb. 1803, he rejoined Capt. Williams in the 74, and, proceeding with convoy to the East Indies, was there promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 12 April, 1805. In Sept. 1806, having returned to England in the frigate, Capt. Sir John Gore, he obtained command of a Signal station. He was subsequently appointed – 13 June, 1808, to the Impress service at Liverpool – 5 Dec. 1811, to the 74, off Cadiz – and, 11 June, 1812, to the command of the, for the purpose of surveying the port of Liverpool. Commander Evans, who has been on half-pay since June, 1813, accepted his present rank 23 Oct. 1837.

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(c) was born 5 Oct. 1791.

This officer entered the Navy, 23 May, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 38, Capt. Robt. Honyman; during his attachment to which frigate, he assisted at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope in Jan. 1806; served, as Midshipman, with the troops at the storming of Monte Video in Feb. 1807; attended the ensuing expedition to Copenhagen; and was eventually wrecked, near the entrance of Milford Haven, 31 Jan. 1808. He next, for 20 months, served in the West Indies on board the and  sloops, Capts. Geo. Ravenshaw, Alex. Nesbitt, Thos. Barclay, and Jas. Pattison Stewart; and while in the latter vessel he contributed, as Master’s Mate, to the capture and destruction of Le Cygne corvette of 18 guns, and two schooners, near St. Pierre, Martinique, 12 and 13 Dec. 1808. From Sept. 1809, until the conclusion of the war (with the exception of two years, in 1812-13, during which he served in the, , and , flag-ships off Lisbon of Vice-Admiral Geo. Martin), Mr. Evans was employed under Sir John Poo Beresford in the and  74’s, and  yacht. In the boats of the he appears to have been for several months very actively engaged up the Tagus. He obtained his commission 2 Feb. 1815; and in the following Aug., after an intermediate servitude in the 120, commanded at Plymouth by Sir Arch. Collingwood Dickson, was placed on half-pay. He has not since been employed. – Case and Loudonsack.

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(d) entered the Navy, 25 Aug. 1803, as a Snpernumerary, on board the 74, Capt. Sir Arch. Collingwood Dickson, stationed in the Baltic, where he removed, as Midshipman, 21 June, 1810, to the 64, Capt. Robt. Williams. Accompanying the latter officer, as Master’s Mate, in March, 1812, into the 74, flagship for some time of Rear-Admiral John Ferrier,