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Rh PLACE. 

entered the Navy 31 Oct. 1829; passed his examination 5 July, 1836; served in the East Indies as Mate in the 72, Capt. Hon. Rich. Saunders Dundas; and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 29 March, 1842, in honour of a visit paid by her Majesty to the 110, on the eve of the departure of that ship for the Mediterranean, with the flag of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen. His appointments have since been – 5 April, 1842, again to the, in which ship he returned to England under the command of Sir Chas. Sullivan, and was paid off in 1844 – 4 Dec. 1846, to the steam-frigate, of 300-horse power, Capt. Woodford John Williams, fitting at Devonport – and, 8 Feb. 1847, to the  50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres at the Cape of Good Hope, where he is now serving.

 PLUMRIDGE. 

entered the Navy, 6 Sept. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the sloop, Capt. Watts, on the Home station; where, and in the Mediterranean, he served as Midshipman, Master’s Mate, and for a short time as Acting-Lieutenant, in the  38, Capts. Geo. Hope and Robt. Honyman, 74, Capt. G. Hope,  38, Capt. Peter Parker, and  74, Capt. G. Hope, from Dec. 1800 until presented, 20 Aug. 1806, with his first commission. The formed part of the force engaged in the expedition to Egypt in 1801; and the  of the victorious fleet at the battle of Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805. For upwards of seven years after his promotion Mr. Plumridge was employed on the Home, West India, Baltic, Cape of Good Hope, and Mediterranean stations, chiefly as First-Lieutenant, in the 74, Capt. Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge,  74, Capts. John Giffard and Pierrepont, again, Capt. P. Parker,  32, Capt. Joseph Baker,  38, Capt. Parker,  80, Capt. Sir John Gore,  74 and  120, flag-ships of Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, 36, Capt. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew,  100, Capt. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, and 120, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. Pellew. On 1 May, 1809, we find him commanding the ’s boats and effecting the destruction, with admirable gallantry, of a Danish cutter-of-war of 6 guns and several merchantmen lying under the protection of a tremendous fire in the harbour of Huilbo, on the coast of Jutland, where the British sustained a loss of 1 Lieutenant, George Rennie, and 5 men severely wounded; and, not long afterwards, contributing to the, by the same ship, of a flotilla of 20 gun-boats, whose fire in the course of a vigorous action killed and wounded 34 of her people, besides inflicting considerable damage on her hull, sails, and rigging. In Dec. 1810 he assisted in the at the reduction of the Isle of France; on 5 Oct. 1813 he commanded the boats of the  at the destruction of the enemy’s batteries and the capture of a convoy in Port d’Anzo; and, in April, 1814, he officiated as Aide-de-Camp to Sir Edw. Pellew at the reduction of Genoa. He was made Commander, 7 June, 1814, into the sloop; and on 6 of the following month was appointed to the  18. Proceeding, in that vessel, to the East Indies, he was there, 29 April, 1816, nominated Acting-Captain of the 38, in which frigate, in Feb. 1817, he returned to England. While commanding next, from 10 Feb. 1818 until 15 March, 1821, the  18, he visited St. Helena, and made prize, on the Irish station, of three American smugglers, one of which had on board 400 bales of tobacco. His appointments since his promotion to Post-rank, which took place 9 Oct. 1822, have been – 18 July, 1831, to the 24, on the East India station, whence he returned in the early part of 1835 – 7 April, 1837, to the Superintendentship (which, with his name on the books of the  6, he retained until 1841) of the Packet establishment at Falmouth – and, 5 Aug. 1847, to the  40, again in the East Indies, where, since 13 Oct. following, he has had a broad pendant flying as second in command.

From 1841 until 1847 Capt. Plumridge sat in Parliament as Member for Falmouth. On 23 June, 1842, he was appointed Storekeeper of the Ordnance; and, on 29 June, 1847, awarded the Good Service Pension. His first wife having died 31 July, 1827, he married, a second time, in 1835, Harriet Agnes, daughter of the Right Hon. H. Elliot, by whom he has issue. He was again left a widower 17 April, 1845. – Joseph Woodhead.

 PLUNKETT. 

, born 29 Nov. 1808, is second son of Lord Dunsany, by his first wife, Charlotte Louisa, youngest daughter of Nicholas, first Lord Cloncurry; and nephew, by marriage, of This officer entered the Navy 4 Oct. 1823; served as Midshipman in the boats of the  48, Capt. Sam. John Brooke Pechell, in a severe encounter with the pirates in the Grecian Archipelago in 1826; passed his examination in 1830; and obtained his first commission 24 Aug. 1834. His succeeding appointments were, 10 Sept. 1834, to the 36, Capts. Lord John Hay and Wm. Robertson, and, 19 Jan. 1837 and 16 July, 1838, to the command of the 10-gun brigs and Savage. In the three vessels last mentioned he served on the coast of Spain during the civil war from 1835 until promoted to the rank of Commander 1 Aug. 1840. He was subsequently, from 9 Oct. 1843 until June, 1845, employed on particular service in the steamer; and, on 9 Nov. 1846, was advanced to his present rank.

Capt. Plunkett, in 1846, published a pamphlet much prized, entitled ‘The Past and Future of the British Navy.’ – Joseph Woodhead.

 POAD. 

was born 11 Jan. 1789 at Devonport. This officer entered the Navy, 14 June, 1803, as Third-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capts. Thos. Louis and Israel Pellew, stationed at first in the Channel and afterwards in the Mediterranean. Removing as Midshipman, in March, 1805, to the 100, bearing the flag of Lord Nelson, he accompanied the hero in his celebrated pursuit of the combined squadrons to the West Indies and back, and fought under him in the action off Cape Trafalgar. From 16 Jan. 1806 until May, 1812, he served on the Mediterranean and Lisbon stations, part of the time in the capacity of Master’s Mate, in the 98,  110, and  98, flag-ships of Lord Collingwood, Rear-Admiral Thos. Fras. Fremantle, and Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley. He was then nominated Acting- Lieutenant of the troop-ship, Capt. David Dunn, on the eve, at the time, of her departure for England; where on his arrival, 12 days afterwards, he had the mortification to be superseded. Being, however, 5 July following, appointed Admiralty Midshipman of the 74, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Geo. Martin off Lisbon, he was again, 31 of that month, ordered to assume the rank of Lieutenant, and, with it, the command of No. 7 gun-boat at Cadiz. On 24 Aug. in the same year his promotion received oflicial sanction. He was next, from 14 Dec. 1812, until paid off in Nov. 1814, employed in the Mediterranean on board the 98, Capt. Robt. Rolles, and and  74’s, Capts. Patrick Campbell and Henry Heathcote; and was subsequently appointed – in 1829, to the office of Agent for Transports Afloat, in which service he continued until wrecked