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BLANDFORD—BLANE—BLATCHLEY—BLENKARNE—BLENNERHASSETT.
rebel chief named Kawiti, at Ruapikapika, in New Zealand.[1]
BLAND. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
George Bland entered the Navy, 15 Jan. 1806, as Third-cl. Boy, on board the Lion 64, Capt. Robt. Rolles, on the East India station; became Midshipman, 3 March, 1808, of the Pallas 32, Capt. Geo. Fras. Seymour, with whom he served at the destruction of the French shipping in Aix Roads in April, 1809, and at the reduction of Flushing; accompanied the same officer, in 1810, into the Manilla 36, in which frigate, under Capt. John Joyce, he was wrecked on the Haak Sands, near the Texel, 28 Jn. 1812; remained a prisoner in France from that period until 1814; then joined the Hasty brig, Capt. John Brenton, on the Cork station; and on 11 Feb. 1815, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. He has not since been employed.
Lieut. Bland was appointed, in 1834, a Naval Knight of Windsor.
BLANDFORD. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 9; h-p., 33.)
James Blandford (b) entered the Navy, 18 May, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Revenge 74, in which ship he continued to serve until Nov. 1811, under Capts. Robt. Moorsom, Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming, Sir John Gore, Hon. Chas. Paget, and the flag of Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge. During that period he took part, and officiated as aide-de-camp to Capt. Moorsom, in the battle of Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805; witnessed, with Sir John Gore, the capture, by a squadron under Sir Samuel Hood, of four French frigates off Rochefort, 25 Sept. 1806; assisted, in the summer of 1809, in fitting out at Sheerness the gun-boats intended to accompany the expedition to the Scheldt, where he was throughout employed on detached service; and, in 1810-11, cooperated, under Rear-Admiral Legge, in the defence of Cadiz. Mr. Blandford, who attained the rank of Lieutenant on 16 Dec. in the latter year, was subsequently appointed – in Feb. 1812, to the Stately 64, Capt. Edw. Stirling Dickson, also at Cadiz – 12 April, 1813, to the Impétueux 74, Capt. Chas. Philip Butler Bateman, off Lisbon – and, 31 March, 1814, to the Archer 12, on the coast of France, whence he invalided in Aug. following. He has since been on half-pay.
He married 29 Aug. 1819, and has issue two children. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
BLANE. (Commander, 1846.)
George Blane was born, 7 Nov. 1813, at Winkfield Park, near Windsor.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 6 April, 1827, and embarked, in April, 1829, on board the Seringapatam 46, Capt. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave, fitting for the South American station. He passed his examination in May, 1833; was promoted (while serving off Lisbon in the Donegal 78, Capt. John Drake) to the rank of Lieutenant, 28 June, 1838; and afterwards joined – 9 April, 1839, the Benbow 72, Capt. Houston Stewart, under whom he participated in all the operations of 1840 on the coast of Syria, including the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre – 22 May, 1843, the Inconstant 36, Capt. Chas. Howe Fremantle, employed on the North America and West India station – and, 20 July, 1846, as First, the Spartan 22, commanded in the Mediterranean by Capt. Thos. Matthew Chas. Symonds. He acquired his present rank on 27 Nov. in the latter year.
BLATCHLEY. (Lieut., 1823. f-p.,21; h-p., 17.)
Charles Blatchley was born 3 Feb. 1796.
This officer entered the Navy, 12 July, 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Royal William, Capts. John Irwin and Robt. Hall, guard-ship at Spithead. From July, 1811, until Sept. 1818, we find him serving on the Mediterranean, Channel, and North American stations, in the Hyacinth 26, Capts. Thos. Ussher and Alex. Renton Sharpe; under the former of whom he assisted, on the night of 29 April, 1812, in a valiant boat attack upon the enemy’s privateers and batteries in the Mole of Malaga, an enterprise which, although partially successful, terminated in a loss to the British, out of 149 officers and men, of 15 killed and 53 wounded. Having passed his examination 2 Aug. 1810, Mr. Blatchley, after a further attachment, as Midshipman, Master’s Mate, and Acting-Lieutenant, to the Hyperion and Doris frigates, Capts. Thos, Searle, Thos. Graham, Edw. Venables Vernon, and Thos. Bourchier, both on the South American station, was confirmed to a Lieutenancy, 23 Oct. 1823, in the Briton 46, Capt. Sir Murray Maxwell. He returned home from the Pacific in Sept. 1826; and was next, on 4 Dec. 1830, appointed First of the Actaeon 26, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Grey, on the Mediterranean station. He has been on half-pay since 4 Sept. 1834.
He is married, and has issue three children.
BLENKARNE. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 12; h-p., 31.)
William Blenkarne entered the Navy, in Nov. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Harpy 18, Capt. Edmund Heywood, employed in watching the Boulogne flotilla; and after a short attachment, towards the close of 1805, to the Royal William, bearing the flag at Portsmouth of Sir Isaac Coffin, became Midshipman of the Audacious 74, in which ship he proceeded to the West Indies. He subsequently joined the Dictator 64, Capt. Jas. Macnamara, in the North Sea, and under the same officer, in the Edgar 74, witnessed the embarkation of the Marquis de la Romana’s army from Nyeborg, 11 Aug. 1808. In March, 1810, Mr. Blenkarne removed to the Berwick 74, also commanded by Capt. Macnamara, and in that ship, on 24 March, 1811, he assisted in chasing a large French frigate, L’Amazone, among the rocks near Barfleur, where she was in consequence burnt by her own crew. On Capt. Edw. Brace succeeding to the command of the Berwick, we find him participating, in April, 1814, in the operations which led to the reduction of Genoa, and further present at the surrender of Gaeta, 8 Aug, 1815. A few weeks after the battle of Algiers, on which occasion, 27 Aug. 1816, he fought as Master’s Mate of the Impregnable 104, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral David Milne, Mr. Blenkarne was presented with a commission dated back to 20 March, 1815. He has not since been employed.
BLENNERHASSETT. (Retired Commander, 1844. f-p., 13; h-p., 34.)
James Primrose Blennerhassett entered the Navy, in May, 1800, as a Vol., on board the Pomone 40, Capts. Robt. Carthew Reynolds and Edw. Leveson Gower. While under the latter officer in the Mediterranean, we find him assisting at the capture, 3 Aug. 1801, after a stiff action of 10 minutes, in which the above ship endured a loss of 2 men killed and 4 wounded, of the Carrière, of 40 guns; and on 2 Sept. following, of the frigates Succès and Bravoure. From March, 1803, until March, 1807, he served on board the Tonnant 80, Capts. Sir Edw. Pellew, Wm. Henry Jervis, and Chas. Tyler, flag-ship subsequently of Rear-Admirals Elias Harvey and Hon. Michael De Courcy, und during that period bore a part, under Capt. Tyler, in the battle of Trafalgar. He then acted as Lieutenant of the Confiance 20, commanded off the coast of Portugal by Capt. Jas. Lucas Yeo, until the period of his official promotion, which took place 29 July, 1807. He was next, on 20 Oct. following, appointed to the Bedford 74, Capt. Jas. Walker, in which ship, after escorting the Royal Family of Portugal to the Brazils, he was employed, as First-Lieutenant, at the blockade of Flushing, and on the Jamaica station. Having been on half-pay since Oct. 1813, Mr. Blennerhassett on 3 Sept. 1844, accepted the rank he now holds.
BLIGHT. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 19; h-p.,31.)
Emanuel Blight, born 8 Feb. 1790, is brother of Capt. Wm. Blight, R.N.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1846, p. 2346.
