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938 Lisbon and Mediterranean stations – and, 6 Aug. 1831, as First, to the 50, fitting for the flag of the last-mentioned officer, then Rear-Admiral Warren, Commander-in-Chief at the Cape of Good Hope. On his return home he was promoted to the rank of Commander 2 Dec. 1834. He was afterwards nominated Second Captain – 28 Jan. 1835, of the 50, flag-ship of Sir G. E. Hamond in South America, where he was superseded in Aug. 1836 – 22 Feb. 1837, of the  74, Capt. Maurice Fred. Fitzhardinge Berkeley, on the Home station – and, 1 Sept. 1337, of the 74, Capt. Hon. Rich. Saunders Dundas. For his services in the in China, where he was praised in the highest manner for his zealous exertions at the capture of Tycocktow, and attracted notice by the able support he atforded in the action with the forts at the Boca Tigris, he was promoted, 8 June, 1841, to the rank he now holds. He has since been on half-pay.

Capt. Puget married, 3 Aug. 1844, Mary Laurents, youngest daughter of the late Rev. Philip Godfrey, Rector of Ayot St. Lawrence, co. Herts. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 PULESTON. 

entered the Navy, 3 Dec. 1794, as Third-cl. Boy, on board the 74, Capt. Rich. Boger, guard-ship at Plymouth; and from May, 1795, until April, 1802, served, with the exception of an interval in 1796-7, in the 20, Capts. Thos. Graves, Robt. Larkan, and Edw. Brace, on the North Sea, Channel, West India, and Newfoundland stations – part of the time in the capacity of Midshipman. Joining next, in March, 1805, the 36, Capts. Stephen Poyntz and Edw. Hawker, he assisted, 13 July following, at the capture of the Hydra privateer, of 28 guns and 192 men, and, in Sept. 1806, at the destruction, off Cape Henry, of L’Impétueux, a French 74. In Jan. 1809, we find him escorting a fleet of transports from Halifax to Barbadoes; and on 16 of that month contributing to the capture of Le Colibri, a French brig-of-war mounting 16 guns, with a complement of 92 men, having on board 570 barrels of flour and a large quantity of gunpowder for the relief of St. Domingo. He was made Lieutenant, 1 July, 1809, into the sloop, Capt. John Evans, at Newfoundland; and was afterwards appointed – 13 Dec. 1809, to the  sloop, Capts. Chas. John Austen, Wm. Bowen Mends, and Henry Jane, with whom he served on the Halifax and West India stations until Oct. 1812 – 4 Nov. 1813, to the 74, Capt. Sir Michael Seymour, in which ship, prior to returning to the West Indies, he aided at the capture, off Cherbourg, of the French 40-gun frigate Sultane – and, 29 Dec. 1814, nearly four months after he had left the, to the  sloop, Capt. Geo. Bennet Allen. He has been on half-pay since 30 Sept. 1815.

 PULLEN. 

entered the Navy, in 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 98, Capts. David Atkins, Thos. Macnamara Russell, Herbert Sawyer, and Robt. Carthew Reynolds, in which ship he served with the Channel fleet until Nov. 1805. He was afterwards employed as Midshipman on the Mediterranean, Home, North American, and West India stations in the, , and , flagships of Admirals the Earl of Northesk, Wm. Young, and Sir John Borlase Warren, and, both commanded by Capt. Chas. Gill, sloop, Capt. Geo. Bennet Allen, and 50, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. Byam Martin. From 31 July, 1815, until 18 May, 1816, he acted as Lieutenant of the 32, Capt. Hon. Geo. Alfred Crofton, again on the coast of North America. He then took up a commission bearing date 16 March, 1815. From 16 March, 1827, until 1830, he served in the Coast Blockade as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye; and since 3 July, 1834, he has been uninterruptedly employed in the Coast Guard.

He married, 17 May, 1838, Isabella Jane, second daughter of H. Duncan, Esq., M.P., of Park Street, Grosvenor Square.

 PULLEN. 

passed his examination 20 July, 1844; and after serving in that capacity in North America on board the steam surveying-vessel, Capt. Peter Fred. Shortland, was promoted to his present rank 9 Nov. 1846. He was re-appointed to the in the capacity of Additional-Lieutenant 3 Feb. 1847, and continued employed in her until paid off in 1848.

 PULLING. 

entered the Navy, 26 July, 1803, as Midshipman, on board the 38, Capts. Lord Mark Robt. Kerr, Wm. Bolton, and Fras. Mason. In that ship he was actively employed on the Channel, Mediterranean, Jamaica, and North Sea stations, part of the time as Master’s Mate, until obliged by ill health to invalid in May, 1810. In 1809 he accompanied the expedition to the Walcheren. In Sept. 1811, after his name had been for five months borne as a Supernumerary on the books of the, Capt. Robt. Hall,, Master-Commander Ferry, and 24, Capt. Jas. Bradshaw, he joined the 18, Capt. Fred. Hickey, under whom he assisted in the attack on Crany Island in June, 1813, and was wrecked, while acting as Master, on the Sisters Rocks, off Halifax lighthouse, 10 Nov. following. He then returned to England in the 28, Capt. Hon. Jas. Ashley Maude; and, on 23 Feb. 1815, was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant. For several years subsequently to 1821 Mr. Pulling was employed in the Coast Guard service in Hampshire, where his exertions in the protection of the revenue brought him into frequent contact with bands of smugglers. In Dec. 1826 he was placed in command of the schooner, on the Jamaica station, where he remained until promoted to the rank of Commander 8 Sept. 1829. He was afterwards again employed in the Coast Guard – from 7 Oct. 1831 until 1834 – from 24 May, 1836, until 1839 – and, from 30 March, 1840, until presented, 16 Jan. 1845, with a Post-commission. He has since been on half-pay. Capt. Pulling is Senior of 1845.

 PURCELL. 

is youngest son of the late Tobias Pureell, Esq., of Timogue Castle, Queen’s co., Ireland, Captain in the 1st Fencible Light Dragoons.

This officer entered the Navy, 9 June, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 40, Capt. Matt. Henry Scott, and, after cruizing for 18 months in the Channel and off the coasts of Spain and Portugal, removed, in Jan. 1806, to the 74, Capt. John Lawford, also attached to the force in the Channel, whence, on rejoining Capt. Scott, as Midshipman, in the course of the same year, on board the  74, he proceeded to the West Indies. Being again, in Dec. 1808, placed under the orders of Capt. Lawford in the, he was afforded an opportunity, in 1809, of accompanying the expedition to the Walcheren, where he commanded an armed launch in the operations against Flushing and was for five weeks employed with the flotilla up the E. Scheldt. In 1810 we find him, with the same launch under his orders, stationed on the river Tagus, during the occupation of the lines of Torres Vedras by the British army; a service which, for nearly two months, brought him into perpetual collision with the enemy’s field pieces and riflemen at Villa Franca and along that bank of the river. In common with the other officers attached to the flotilla, Mr. Purcell received the thanks of Lord Wellington. In Dec. 1810 he returned home in the 74, for the purpose