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Rh  98, flag-ship of Lord Exmouth. In the, which frigate he left In Oct. 1816, he was wounded at the battle of Algiers; and in the he served at Plymouth from 16 May, 1818, until 1820. He has not been since afloat.

 PERRIER. 

is son of Sir Anthony Perrier, Kt., H.B.M.’s Consul at Brest, by a sister of

This officer passed his examination 2 May, 1842; obtained his commission 10 March, 1846; and was then appointed to the gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads. He has been serving, since 26 March, 1847, in the steam-frigate, of 500 horse-power, Capt. Wm. Honyman Henderson, in the Mediterranean.

 PERRY. 

was born in 1798. This officer entered the Navy, 2 July, 1810, as Fst.-cl. Boy, on board the 18, Capts. Hon. Alex. Jones and Spelman Swaine, employed off the coast of Ireland; removed, in Aug. 1812, to the 74, commanded in the Channel by Capts. Hon. Henry Blackwood and Lord Jas. O’Bryen; became Midshipman, in Oct. 1814 and Aug. 1815, of the 38, Capt. Archibald Duff, and  36, both on the Irish station; joined, in April, 1818, after two years of non-servitude, the  26, Capt. Fras. Erskine Loch, in the East Indies; was there transferred, in 1820, to the 60, flag-ship of Hon. Sir H. Blackwood; invalided home in 1821; and from 1823 until paid off in 1830 served, at first at home and afterwards in South America, on board the  100, flag-ship at Portsmouth,  18, Capt. Jas. Montagu, 76, and  74, bearing each the flag of Sir Geo. Eyre, 84,  frigate, Capt. Sir John Gordon Sinclair, and  44, Capt. Jeremiah Coghlan. Having accompanied, in the, an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, he there, in Jan. 1820, assisted, as a passed Midshipman, at the bombardment of Ras-al-Khyma, their principal resort and head-quarters, where the fortifications were all destroyed, their vessels burnt, and a large quantity of treasure seized. He was confirmed a Lieutenant of the 3 March, 1828; and since that vessel was put out of commission has been on half-pay.

In 1837 he was appointed Inspector of the Gaol at Cork, where he continues.

 PETCH. 

, born about 1797, is brother of

This officer entered the Navy 8 Feb. 1810; and on 13 Dec. in the same year was present in the 74, Capt. Thos. Rogers, at the destruction of a large convoy protected by two batteries in the Mole of Palamos, at which place the British, out of 600 officers and men, who had been employed in the boats of a squadron, sustained a loss of upwards of 200 killed and wounded. Joining, subsequently, the 32, Capt. Chas. Napier, he assisted in that ship at the capture, 26 Feb. 1813, of the island of Ponza. On 16 May following, being then with Capt. Napier in the 36, we find him contributing to the capture of La Fortune national xebec, of 10 guns, 4 swivels, and 95 men, together with upwards of 20 merchant-vessels, lying in Cavalarie Road. In 1814 he accompanied, in the same ship, the brilliant expedition sent up the Potomac under Capt. Jas. Alex. Gordon to effect the capture of Alexandria. In 1815, while in charge of a prize to Bermuda, he fell into the hands of the enemy. Being made Lieutenant, 13 June, 1828 (11 years after he had passed his examination), into the 10, Capt. Joseph Nias, he was present in the following year, in the Mediterranean, at the capture of a pirate by the boats of that vessel. His appointments, since his return to England in 1830, have been, in succession – 5 April, 1831, to the Coast Guard – 20 June, 1836, to the command of the Revenue-vessel – in 1839, to the office of  in a contract mail steam-vessel on the Liverpool and Kingstown station – and, 28 Aug. 1841 and 26 Jan. 1843, to the command of the  and  steam-packets, in the latter of which he is still serving. – Hallett and Robinson.

 PETCH. 

was born 22 Sept. 1790. He is brother of Lieut. Chas. Adolphus Petch, R.N. This officer entered the Navy, 15 March, 1799, as Third-cl. Boy, on board the 98, Capts. Erasmus Gower, Jas. Vashon, Edw. Brace, and Fras. Wm. Austen; in which ship, bearing the flag in the Channel of Vice-Admiral Jas. Gambier, he continued employed as Midshipman until paid off in April, 1802. Joining next, in March, 1805, after having been for a time attached to ther merchant service, the 64, Capt. Hon; Geo. Byng, he assisted on shore as Aide-de-Gamp to that officer at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope in Jan. 1806; and on 27 of the following Nov. commanded a launch at the capture and destruction of a Dutch frigate, seven brigs of war, and 20 armed and other merchant-vessels in Batavia Roads. On his return to England in 1813 he followed Capt. Byng, as Master’s Mate, into the 74, and in Nov. of the same year sailed with the Prince of Orange for Holland. In the ensuing Dec. he removed to the 98, successive flag-ship of Admiral Wm. Young and H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence; as Aide-de-Camp to the latter of whom we find him escorting the allied sovereigns from Calais to Dover. He was advanced in consequence (he had passed in 1808) to the rank of Lieutenant 27 June, 1814. With the exception of a short time passed in 1826-7 in the Coast Blockade as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the 74, Capt. Hugh Pigot, he has since been on half-pay;

Lieut. Petch married, 18 April, 1816, Hannah, daughter of Thos. Stapleton, a Master in the merchant-service, by whom he has issue 9 children. His eldest son, Wm. Henry Petch, Second-Master R.N. (1844), has been acting, since Aug. 1844, as Master of the steamer,- and  sloop, on the coast of Africa. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 PETLEY. 

entered, the Navy, 4 Feb. 1793, as Midshipman, on board the 74, Capts. Robt. Lambert and Pulteney Malcolm, employed at first in the Channel and afterwards in the East Indies; where he was nominated, 21 Aug. 1798, Acting-Lieutenant of the 50, Capt. John Sprat Rainier. Under Capt. Lambert.he assisted, in 1795-6, at the reduction of Ceylon, Amboyna, Banda, &c. He was confirmed a Lieutenant, 4 Aug. 1799, into the 64, Capt. Wm. Hargood, also in the East Indies; and subsequently appointed – 28 June, 1801, to the 36, Capt. Wm. Waller, with whom he returned to England in 1803 – 16 Nov. in that year, to the 16, Capt. Joseph Ore Masefield, with whom he cruized in the Channel until Oct. 1805, when a wound he had received in the eye obliged him to be sent to the Hospital at Plymouth – 4 Feb. 1806, to the command of a Signal station in co. Waterford, which he retained until Oct. 1809 – and, in Feb. 1810, to the Impress service at Gravesend. In April, 1814, he was placed on half-pay. He became a Retired Commander on the Junior List 30 July, 1840; and on the Senior 23 Dec. 1843.

 PETRIE. 

was born 14 Oct. 1789, in Fifeshire, N.B.

This officer entered the Navy, 16 Nov. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capts. Isaac