Turner, Bart., of Warham, by Mary, his wife, sister of the celebrated Sir Robert Walpole, K.G. This officer entered the Navy, 9 April, 1803, as I’st.-cl. Vol., on borad the Amphion 32, Capt. Thos. Masterman Hardy, and sailed shortly afterwards with the flag of Lord Nelson for the Mediterranean; where he continued employed with the hero in the Victory 100, with Capts. Ross Donnelly and Wm. D’Urban in the Narcissus and Ambuscade frigates, and again in the Victory and Ambuscade, until Aug. 1809. In the Victory, we believe, he fought at Trafalgar. He was made Lieutenant, 23 Oct. 1809, into the Talbot sloop, Capt. Hon. Alex. Jones, on the Cork station; and was subsequently appointed – in 1810, to the Caesar 80, Capt. Wm. Granger, and Milford 74, flag-ship of Sir Rich. Goodwin Keats, employed off Lisbon and at the defence of Cadiz – 1 Aug. 1811, for 15 months, to the Rodney 74, Capts. John Allen and Edw. Durnford King, in the Mediterranean – and, in June and Dec. 1813, to the Ocean 98 and Unité 36, Capts. Robt. Plampin and Edwin Henry Chamberlayne, on the same station, whence he returned in April, 1814. He was promoted, 1 July in that year, to the command of the Merope sloop. In her he served in the Mediterranean and on the coast of North America until Feb. 1815; and he was next, from 19 Feb. 1822 until wrecked on a reef of rocks off Langness Point, in the Isle of Man, 14 Dec. following, employed in the Racehorse 18, and from 15 March, 1828, until he invalided in the spring of 1829, in the Medina 20, on the coast of Africa. He has since been on half-pay. He attained his present rank 23 Nov. 1841.
Capt. Suckling married, first, 24 Sept. 1844, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late John Barry, Esq., of Montague Street, Russell Square, London; and, that lady dying 9 Sept. 1846, secondly, 5 Aug. 1847, Caroline, second daughter of the late Wm. Loaden, Esq., of Rosehill, near Bideford, co. Devon. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
SULIVAN. (Captain, 1845. f-p., 18; h-p., 6.)
Bartholomew James Sulivan is son of Capt. Thos. B. Sulivan, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 4 Sept. 1823; passed his examination in 1829; obtained his first commission 3 April, 1830; served from 25 June, 1831, until the close of 1836,, in the Beagle surveying-vessel, Capt. Robt. FitzRoy, on the South American station; was appointed to the command, 30 Nov. 1837, of the Pincher schooner, at Chatham; and from 12 April, 1838, until 1839, was again employed in South America in command of the Arrow ketch. He attained the rank of Commander 14 May, 1841; served in that capacity in the Philomel surveying-vessel, on the S.E. coast of America, from 2 April, 1842, until paid off on his return to England in 1846; and since 10 Dec. 1847 has had his name borne as a Supernumerary-Captain, for surveying-service, on the books of the Victory 104, flag-ship at Portsmouth. His promotion to Post-rank, which was effected in March, 1846, by a commission dated back to 18 Nov. 1845, was made a reward for the conduct he had displayed in command of the southern division of the ships engaged in the battle of the Parana; where the combined squadrons of France and Spain, after a hard day’s fighting, destroyed four heavy batteries belonging to General Rosas at Punta Obligado, also a schooner-of-war mounting 6 guns, and 24 vessels chained across the river. “I should be unmindful,” writes Capt. Chas. Hotham, the Senior British officer present on the occasion, in his official report of the proceedings addressed to the Commander-in-Chief, “of the ability and continued zeal of Commander B. Sulivan, did I not bring him particularly to your notice; by his exertions we were furnished with a chart, which enabled us to complete our arrangements for the attack.”[1]
Capt. Sulivan is married, and has issue.
SULIVAN. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Norton Shaw Sulivan passed his examination 21 July, 1841; and after having served as Mate in the Fly surveying-vessel, Capt. Fras. Price Blackwood, and Ranger 6, Capt. Jas. Anderson (b), in the East Indies and on the coast of Africa, was promoted, 2 June, 1846, to the rank of Lieutenant, and nominated Additional of the Actaeon 26, Capt. Geo. Mansel, on the station last named. His appointments have since been – 6 Nov. 1846, to the Birkenhead steam-frigate of 560 horse-power, Capt. Aug. Henry Ingram, employed on particular service – and, 13 July, 1847, and 19 July, 1848, again as Additional, to the Vernon 50, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sam. Hood Inglefield, and Melampus 42, Capt. John Norman Campbell, both in the East Indies, where, with his name on the books of the latter ship, he is now doing duty at Bombay in the Meeanee 80.
SULIVAN, C.B. (Captain, 1814.)
Thomas Ball Sulivan was born 5 Jan. 1781. He is first-cousin of Capt. Thos. Ross Sulivan, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1786, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Triumph 74, Capt. John Knight, bearing the flag of Lord Hood at Portsmouth, where he followed the Admiral into the Barfleur 98, and was employed, until 1793, in the Bombay Castle 74, Capt. John Thos. Duckworth, Hannibal 74, Capt. John Colpoys, and Cambridge 74, Capts. Wm. Locker and Boger. He served next, from July, 1794, until April, 1797, in the Channel and Mediterranean, the chief part of the time as Midshipman, in the Audacious 74, Capts. Alex. Hood and Wm. Shield, Southampton 32, Capt. Shield, Audacious again, Capts. Aug. Montgomery and Davidge Gould, and Royal George[2] 100, flag-ship of Lord Bridport; and on 26 of the month last mentioned he was made Lieutenant into the Queen Charlotte 100, Capt. Walter Locke. His next appointments were – 19 July, 1797, to the Scorpion sloop, Capts. Stair Douglas and Horace Pine, in the North Sea – 1 Jan. 1798, to the Director, Capt. Wm. Bligh, lying in Yarmouth Roads – 15 March, 1798, to the Kite sloop, Capts. Wm. Brown, Chas. Lydiard, Stephen Thos. Digby, and Philip Pipon, under whom he was for seven years employed in the North Sea and Baltic and off Guernsey – and, 10 May and 26 Dec. 1805, to the Brisk 18, Capt. John Coode, and Anson 38, Capts. Fred. Langford and Chas. Lydiard, on the Irish and Jamaica stations. In the Kite he accompanied the expedition sent under Sir Home Popham, in May, 1798, to destroy the locks and sluice-gates of the Bruges Canal, and was present, in Sept. 1803, at the bombardment of Granville. While serving, as First, in the Anson, he assisted, in company with the Arethusa 38, at the capture, 23 Aug. 1806, near the Havana, after a spirited action, in which the British sustained a loss of 2 men killed and 32 wounded, of the Pomona Spanish frigate of 38 guns and 347 men, laden with specie and merchandize, and defended by a castle mounting 11 36-pounders, and a flotilla of 10 gun-boats, all of which were destroyed.[3] On 15 Oct. following he took part in a skirmish with the Foudroyant, a French 80, in which the Anson had 2 men killed and 13 wounded; and on 1 Jan. 1807 he contributed to the brilliant reduction of Curaçoa. As a reward for his conduct on the latter occasion he was promoted to the rank of Commander 23 Feb. 1807. He continued in the Anson as a volunteer until that ship was lost, with her Captain and about 60 of the crew, near the Lizard, 29 Dec. in the same year; and he was subsequently appointed – in Jan. 1809, to the Transport service – 4 Nov. 1809, for two months and a half, to the Eclipse, on the Plymouth station – and, 2 Feb. 1813 and 26 March, 1814, to the Woolwich 44,
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1846, pp. 815, 861.
- ↑ The Royal George was one of the ships implicated in the Spithead mutiny.
- ↑ On the Pomona striking her colours she was immediately notwithstanding a severe fire from the castle, taken possession of by Lieut. Parish, First of the Arethusa, followed bv Lieut. Sulivan. – Vide Gaz. 1806, p. 1535.
