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Rh schooner, Capt. Wm. Oldrey, he had the good fortune, by his presence of mind, to save H.R.H. the Duke of Kent from an impending accident. He was afterwards employed in the Coast Blockade. He obtained his commission 18 Sept. 1828; and since 16 March, 1831, has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard. The important nature of his services in cases of shipwreck has had the effect of eliciting the acknowledgments of Lloyd’s, of the Royal Humane Society, and of various merchants and shipowners.

Lieut. O’Reilly’s testimonials of conduct are of a high order. His son,, is a Lieutenant R.N.

 O’REILLY. 

, born 17 Feb. 1822, is the only child of

This officer entered the Royal Naval College in Feb. 1835; and embarked, in Feb. 1837, as a Volunteer, on board the 16, Capt. Fras. Harding; in which vessel he was wrecked at Port Essington, Australia, while holding the rating of Midshipman, 25 Nov. 1839. Joining next, in 1841,, the 44, Capt. Henry Smith, he took part in the hostile operations then in progress in China, where, in Aug. of that year, he assisted at the capture of Amoy and Golongsoo, and was intrusted with the charge of a Signal station at the latter place. On the being paid off in the spring of 1843, having passed his examination 14 July, 1842, he was appointed Mate of the  gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings. After a servitude of three months off Lisbon in the 90, Capt. Nicholas Lookyer, he sailed, at the commencement of 1845, for the coast of Africa, in the  26, Capt. Geo. Mansel. Volunteering to remain on that unhealthy station, although offered an appointment in the Mediterranean, he was nominated, 15 Aug. following, Acting-Lieutenant of the 16, Capt. Chas. Jas. Franklin Newton; to which sloop he was confirmed 12 Dec. in the same year. Since 23 Sept. 1847 (shortly previous to which date the had been put out of commission) he has been employed on particular service in the  78, Capt. Robt. Lambert Baynes.

 ORLEBAR. 

, born in 1810, is third son of the late Rich. Orlebar, Esq., of Hinwick House, co. Bedford, who served as High Sheriff of that co. in 1808, by Maria, fourth daughter of Benj. Longuet, Esq., of Bath. He is brother of the late Alex. Orlebar, Esq., an officer in the Royal Engineers; and nephew of the present

This officer entered the Navy 16 March, 1824; passed his examination in 1831; obtained his first commission 10 Sept. 1832; and from May, 1833, until the close of 1835, was employed in North America and the West Indies on board the 18, Capt. Wm. Sidney Smith, and 44, Capt. Watkin Owen Pell. For his services as a Surveyor he was advanced to his present rank 6 Feb. 1845. His name, since 28 April in the latter year, has been borne on the books of the 50, flag-ship of Sir Fras. Wm. Austen on the North America and West India station, where he is still surveying.

He married, at Quebec, 5 Feb. 1838, Harriet, youngest daughter of John Hale, Esq., Receiver-General of Lower Canada, by Elizabeth, sister of the present Earl Amherst, and daughter of the late Lieut.-General Wm. Amherst, Aide-de-Camp to the King, Lieut.-Governor of Portsmouth, Governor of St. John’s, Newfoundland, and Adjutant-General of H.M. Forces. – Hallett and Robinson.

 ORLEBAR. 

, born in 1786, is fourth son of the late Rich. Orlebar, Esq., of Hinwick House, co. Bedford, one of the clerks extraordinary of the Privy Council, by his second wife Charlotte, daughter of Robt. Willing, Esq., of London. He is brother of the late Henry Orlebar, Esq., R.N.; and uncle of

This officer entered the Navy, 15 Oct. 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 26, commanded in the North Sea by Capt. John Mackellar; with whom, and with Capts. Walter Bathurst, Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, Wm. Wells, Geo. Bell, Wm. Augustus Montagu, and Jas. Murray Gordon, we find him, from March, 1801, to Oct. 1808, serving, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the 32, on the Cape of Good Hope and East India stations. In 1805 he was wounded while assisting in a boat which was sunk at the capture, after a desperate resistance, of the French corvette Tourterelle, under the batteries of St. Denis, Ile de Bourbon. He was present in the course of the same year in another boat which was sunk in effecting the destruction of a French brig off the Isle of France; and in Nov. 1806 he was engaged in the headmost boat at the annihilation, in Batavia Roads, of a Dutch frigate, seven brigs-of-war, and about 20 armed and other vessels. On his arrival home in 1809 in the 74, Capt. John Ferrier, he rejoined Capt. Bathurst on board the  36, and, accompanying the ensuing expedition to the Walcheren, was there intrusted with the command of a gun-boat. In Oct. 1809 he left the ; and in Oct. 1810 he was received on board the 110, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Thos. Fras. Fremantle in the Mediterranean; where he was nominated, 25 Jan. 1811, Acting-Lieutenant of the 74, Capt. Edw. Codrington. His official promotion took place 14 March following. He invalided in Aug. of the same year, and was next, from Dec. 1811 until Aug. 1815, employed on the Channel, North American, and West India stations, in the sloop, Capts. Chas. Kerr and Geo. Grey Burton. Since he left that vessel, in which it appears he was present in the attack upon Baltimore, he has been on half-pay.

Lieut. Orlebar (who was left a widower 15 Nov. 1831) married, 24 April, 1824, Helen Maria, only daughter of the late Admiral Aplin, and sister of the present. His eldest daughter is the wife of Lieut. Augustus John Burton, R.N.

 ORMOND. 

entered the Navy, 18 Sept. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Thos. Byam Martin, attached to the Channel fleet; and, between Oct. 1805 and the date of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant 3 Dec. 1810, was employed on the Home and Baltic stations, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the 110, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Cotton, 98, Capts. T. B. Martin and Sir Home Popham, 74, Capts. T. B. Martin, Philip Pipon, and Geo. Chas. Mackenzie, and 74 and  100, flag-ships of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford and Sir Jas. Saumarez. He was present in the under the flag of Admiral Gambier at the bombardment of Copenhagen in Sept. 1807; in the  he took part, 26 Aug. 1808, in a gallant action of 20 minutes with the Russian 74-gun ship Sewolod, which was completely silenced, and in the end, with the assistance of the  74, flag-ship of Sir Sam. Hood, captured and burnt in sight of the whole Russian fleet near Rogerswick, after a total loss to the enemy of 303 men, and to the, individually, of 6 killed and 25 wounded; and on 7 July, 1809, he assisted, in the ’s boats, in a brilliant attack on a Russian flotilla, described in. His appointments in the capacity of Lieutenant (after a brief servitude as such in the 74, Capts. John Quilliam and Robt. Cathcart) were – 18 March, 1811, to the  sloop, Capt. Wm. Ramage, on the coast of Norway – 2 March, 1812, to the 64 Capts. Robt. Williams and Wm. Autridge, in the Baltic – 25 May following, for four months, to the