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to the late Captain Thomas Gordon Caulfield, R.N.

This officer served as midshipman under Captain the Hon. Henry Duncan, in the Imperieuse and Glasgow frigates, on the Mediterranean and Channel stations. He was made lieutenant into the Leander 60, flag-ship of the late Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood, on the East India station, Feb. 6th, 1821 ; advanced to his present rank on the 27th Aug. 1832; and appointed an inspecting commander of the coast guard in 1834. 



the royal navy in Mar. 1809; obtained his first commission on the 9th Feb. 1825; and was promoted to his present rank, Aug. 31st, 1832, for “capturing three slave-vessels, (two of them well armed), and other services in the West Indies,” while commanding the Speedwell schooner. 



made a lieutenant on the 17th Jan. 1810; and appointed to the Contest sloop. Captain James Rattray, Dec. 18th, 1812. He was wounded while gallantly commanding the boats of that vessel and the Mohawk sloop, at the capture and partial destruction of the American national schooner Asp, mounting one long 18-pounder and two carronades of the same calibre, with a complement of twenty-five men, in Yeocomio river, where she was lying close to the shore, protected by a large body of militia. In this affair, the boats had two men killed and five wounded; the Asp, her commander (a lieutenant in the United States’ navy) and nine men killed and wounded.

We next find Lieutenant Curry appointed, Jan, 3d, 1820,