A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Marryat, Frederick (b)
MARRYAT. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
Frederick Marryat is eldest son of Capt. Fred Marryat, R.N., C.B.
This officer entered the Navy in 1830; passed his examination 8 Jan. 1841; and after a servitude of more than three years in the East Indies as Mate of the Cambrian 36, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 1 Sept. 1845. His appointments have since been – 5 Oct. 1846, to the Sphynx steam-sloop, Capt. John Bettinson Cragg, his exertions in rescuing which vessel, when aground in Brixstone Bay in Jan. 1847, procured him the thanks of the Admiralty, but nearly cost him his life – and, 9 April, 1847, to the Avenger steam-frigate of 650 horse-power, Capt. Sidney Colpoys Dacres, now on the Lisbon station. On two consecutive evenings in the month of Oct. 1847 Lieut. Marryat intrepidly plunged into the sea after a man who had each time fallen overboard. On the last occasion, the drowning person having convulsively clasped him round the neck, he would have been inevitably lost had it not been for the presence of mind of the First-Lieutenant, Hugh Mallett Kinsman, who, observing the danger in which his shipmates were placed, instantly jumped in himself and was the means of their both being saved.