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FRANKLIN—FRANKLING—FRANKLYN—FRASER. 1828, the second daughter of John Griffin, Esq., ot Bedford Place. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 FRANKLIN. 

passed his examination 14 June, 1836; was for some time employed in South America as Mate of the 18, Capt. Peter Sampson Hambly; obtained his commission 7 March, 1842; and was appointed, a few days afterwards. Additional Lieutenant of the 110, flag-ship of Sir Edw. W. C. K. Owen, in the Mediterranean, where, from 11 June in the same year, until Oct. 1844, he further served in the 16, Capt. Hon. Walter Bourohier Devereux. He has been attached, since 8 Feb. 1847, to the steam-frigate, Capt. Woodford John Williams.

 FRANKLING. 

entered the Navy, 14 Aug. 1793, as A.B., on board the sloop, Capt. Jas. Bissett, of which vessel, stationed in the Channel and North Sea, he became Midshipman 17 Dec. following. After serving for some time off Newfoundland, as Midshipman of the 38, Capt. Thos. Wolley, he accompanied that officer, as Master’s Mate of the 38, to the West Indies; where he appears to have assisted at the reduction of Ste. Lucie in May, 1796, also in quelling an insurrection among the inhabitants of St. Vincent and Grenada, and at the capture of Trinidad in 1797. On 10 Aug. in the latter year he further aided in taking La Gaieté corvette, of 20 guns. He obtained a Lieutenancy, 1 March, 1800, in the armée en flûte, Capt. Terence O’Neill, which vessel he subsequently commanded for a short time as a prison-ship at one of the Leeward islands. At the commencement of the peace of Amiens we find him serving in the, Capt. John Nash. He next held an appointment for 10 months in the Sea Fencibles at Southampton; was then employed from May, 1804, to Nov. 1807, on board the and  frigates, Capts. Lord Proby and Jas. Walker, in the West Indies, East Indies, and North America; and, on the date last mentioned, assumed command of a Signal station, which he retained until 16 March, 1816. Having been on half-pay since that period, he at length accepted the rank of Retired Commander, on the Junior List, 7 Jan. 1833. His promotion to the Senior List took place 2 Sept. 1844.

Commander Frankling has a daughter married to Chas. Stark, Esq., Mathematical Instructor in H.M.S..

 FRANKLYN. 

entered the Navy, in the autumn of 1798, as A.B., on board the schooner, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Peake, on the Home station; became Midshipman, in 1801, of the 98, Capts. Robt. Waller Otway and Geo. Murray, attached to the fleet in the Baltic; and after serving for some time with Capt. Otway in the 74, and again with Lieut. Peake in the gun-brig, joined the  33, Capts. Graham Eden Hamond and Geo. M‘Kinley. On 5 Oct. 1804 the latter vessel assisted at the capture of three Spanish frigates laden with treasure, and the destruction of a fourth, off Cape St. Mary; and, on 29 May, 1805, she sustained a very spirited skirmish with a Spanish 74. Mr. Franklyn, who obtained a Lieutenancy, 7 Nov. 1807, in the 18, Capt. John Maxwell, was afterwards employed on the North Sea, Mediterranean, and American stations, in the  74, Capts. G. E. Hamond and Sir John Talbot – under the latter of whom, if we mistake not, he assisted at the capture of the French 74-gun ship Rivoli. He went on half-pay in 1814; but has been in command, since 5 July, 1836, of a station in the Coast Guard.

He married, 22 Jan. 1820, Barbara, daughter of the late John Duthman, Esq. – J. Hinxman.

 FRANKLYN. 

died in 1846.

This officer entered the Navy, 26 July, 1806, as Midshipman, on board the 74, Capts. Jas. Nicoll Morris and Thos. Alexander; in the boats of which ship, after serving on the Lisbon and Mediterranean stations, he was taken prisoner in a gallant attack on an enemy’s flotilla off Isle d’Aix, 27 Dec. 1811. On his release, in 1814, he joined the, and next, as Acting-Lieutenant and Admiralty-Midshipman, the 12, Capt. Henry Forbes, and  36, Capt. Wm. Pryce Cumby, on the Cork and Lisbon stations. From the receipt of his commission, which bore date 25 Feb. 1815, Lieut. Franklyn, who was then serving on board the 12, Capt. Scriven, remained on half-pay.

He married, and had issue.

 FRASER. 

entered the Navy, 2 May, 1801, as Midshipman, on board the 98, Capt. John Tremayne Rodd, bearing the flag in the Channel of Sir Chas. Cotton; removed successively, in 1802-3, to the 38, Capt. Micajah Malbon, and  74, Capt. Robt. Williams; then rejoined Sir C. Cotton in the 110; and on 11 July, 1808, was confirmed to a Lieutenancy in the  44, Capt. Stephen Thos. Digby. In command of the boats of the latter ship we find him, on 10 March, 1809, cutting out, in the most cool and gallant manner, and with a loss of 7 men wounded, the Josef French felucca, of 3 guns and 53 men, under a heavy fire of grape and musketry from the vessel herself, as well as from a whole range of batteries on the island of St. Domingo. In the course of the same year he became attached to the sloop, and  64, bearing each the flag of Vice-Admiral Bartholomew Sam. Rowley; after which he served, from 7 Aug. 1812 until 5 July, 1816, in the and  frigates, both commanded by Capt. Phipps Hornby, with whom he visited the Cape of Good Hope and Mediterranean. His last appointments, as Lieutenant, were – 7 April, 1818, to the 76, flag-ship at Chatham of Sir John Gore – and, 24 May, 1819, to the command of the  Revenue-cruizer. He assumed his present rank 29 Sept. 1823; and, since 10 Sept. 1844, has been conducting the Packet service at Holyhead, as Additional-Commander of the yacht.

He married, 25 July, 1832, Miss Mary Elizabeth Fraser, of Chichester, by whom he has issue. – Pettet and Newton.

 FRASER. 

is youngest son of the late Gen. J. H. Fraser, of Ashling House, near Chichester, co. Sussex.

This officer entered the Navy, 11 Sept. 1810, as Midshipman, on board the 80, Capt. Sir John Gore; under whom (with the exception of an interval of a few months in 1813, when we find his name borne on the books of the  74, Capt. Edw. Leveson Gower) he continued to serve, latterly in the  74, until July, 1814; during which period he assisted in the boats of the last-mentioned ship at the cutting out of a French privateer from the mole of Palamos, 8 Nov. 1813. Until July, 1816, he was next employed, also in the Mediterranean, on board the 10, Capt. John Stoddart, and  38, Capt. Phipps Hornby. In April, 1818, he rejoined Sir John Gore in the 76, at Chatham; and from the close of the same year until his promotion, 1 Nov. 1821, he further served, on the South American and West India stations, in the  42, Capt. Thos. Searle, and 48, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Rowley. He then joined the 42, Capt. Fras. Newcome, but invalided home 26 Sept. 1822; and was subsequently appointed – 23 Nov. 1826, to the 120, flag-ship at the Nore of