gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capts. Sir Thos. Hastings and Henry Ducie Chads, and in the Vanguard 80, Capt. Geo. Wickens Willes, on the Channel station, was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant 28 Feb. 1847. He has been since employed as Additional of the Hibernia 104, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker in the Mediterranean.
PALMER. (Lieut., 1820. f-p., 13; h-p., 25.)
Charles Palmer was born 27 Dec. 1792. This officer entered the Navy, in Ang. 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Gibraltar 80, Capts. Hen. Lidgbird Ball and Robt. Plampin, stationed in the Channel, where in the following month he attained the rating of Midshipman, and in Feb. 1812 amoved to the Stirling Castle 74, Capts. Sir Jahleel Brenton and Augustus Brine. With Capt. Brine he continued employed in the Venerable, Bellerophon, and Medway 74’s (the latter bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Chas. Tyler at the Cape of Good Hope), until nominated, 27 Dec. 1815, Acting-Lieutenant of the Tamar 24, Capt. Chas. Sotheby. He returned to England in Feb. 1816; and between Aug. of that year and the date of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 26 Dec. 1820, was in succession appointed Admiralty-Midshipman of the Ganymede 26, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch. Erne 20, Capt. Rich. Spencer, Impregnable 104) flag-ship of Lord Exmouth, Dorothea hired-ship, Capt. David Buchan, and Hecla bomb, Lieut.Commander Wm. Edw. Parry. In the Ganymede, Erne, and Impregnable he was employed on the Downs, Mediterranean, and Plymouth stations; he took part, in the Dorothea, in a perilous voyage of discovery to the neighbourhood of Spitzbergen; and in the Hecla he penetrated to long. 113° 64' 43" W. within the Arctic Circle, and thereby became entitled to a portion of a Parliamentary reward of 5000l. Being re-appointed, 8 Jan. 1821, to the Hecla, then commanded by Capt. Geo. Fras. Lyon, he sailed in the following May with Capt. Parry’s second expedition in quest of a North-west passage. He returned to England in the autumn of 823, and has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Palmer married, 29 May, 1828, Miss Sarah C. Yorke.
PALMER. (Lieut., 1809. f-p., 36; h-p., 8.)
Edward Gascoigne Palmer entered the Navy, 20 June, 1803, under the auspices of H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Donegal 74, Capts. Sir Rich. John Strachan and Pulteney Malcolm. In the following year he was present, we believe, at the capture of the Spanish 44-gun frigate Amfitrite, and of a ship with a cargo on board worth 200,000l.; and in 1805 he accompanied Lord Nelson to the West Indies and back in pursuit of the combined fleets. On 6 Feb. 1806, after having assisted at the capture of El Rayo of 100 guns, one of the ships recently defeated at Trafalgar, he took part with Sir John Thos. Duckworth in the action off St. Domingo. On leaving the Donegal, of which ship he had been constituted Midshipman in July, 1805, he became, 7 July, 1806, Master’s Mate of the Kingfisher 18, Capt. Geo. Fras. Seymour; whom, in Jan. 1807, he followed into the Aurora 28. In that frigate, and in the Kingfisher, to which vessel, commanded by Capts. Wm. Hepenstall and Ewell Tritton, he returned in June, 1808, Mr. Palmer saw much boat-service in the Mediterranean, and was on one occasion wounded by the fire of a polacre near Corfu. He obtained his commission 19 Oct. 1809, and was subsequently appointed, chiefly in the capacity of First-Lieutenant – 28 Oct. 1809, and 1 June, 1810, to the Rinaldo 10, and Oberon 16, Capts. Jas. Anderson and Jas. Murray, both in the Downs – 14 Dec. 1811, to the Warrior 74, Capt. Hon. Geo. Byng, off Flushing – 12 Feb. 1813, to the Cossack 22 Capt. Fras. Stanfell, on the Jamaica station – 7 March, 1814, to the Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Lord Exmouth, under whom he beheld the fall of Genoa – and, 23 Oct. 1815 (after a few months of half-pay), to the Esk 20, Capt. Geo. Gustavus Lennock, fitting for the West Indies, whence he invalided in 1817. In the Rinaldo, whose force consisted of 8 18-pounder carronades and 2 long sixes, with a complement of 65 men, Mr. Palmer led the boarders, and was badly wounded in the leg, at the capture, 7 Dec. 1809, after some resistance, of Le Maraudeur French privateer, of 14 guns and 66 men, 5 of whom were wounded. His appointments, since he left the Esk, have been – in 1824, for three years, to the Ordinary at Sheerness – 24 Nov. 1827, and 19 Feb. 1830, as a Supernumerary, to the Ramillies and Talavera Coast Blockade Ships, both commanded by Capt. Hugh Pigot – 15 Jan. 1831, to the Coast Guard – 14 Oct. 1831, to a three-years’ command of the Cheerful Revenue-vessel – and, 11 June, 1835, again to the Coast Guard, in which service he continues.
Lieut. Palmer married, 3 Aug. 1831, Harriet, relict of the late Higgles Bayley, Esq., of Cape Coast Castle, by whom he has issue one child.
PALMER. (Commander, 1840. f-p., 25; h-p., 17.)
George Palmer entered the Navy, 22 Jan. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Pluto sloop, Capt. Rich. Gaire Janvrin, employed on the Home station; where, and in the Baltic, he continued employed, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the Royal William, Capt. John Irwin, Pandora 18, Capts. R. G. Janvrin and John Macpherson Ferguson, Namur 74, Capt. Shepheard, and Briseis 10, Capts. Chas. Thurlow Smith and John Boss, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 20 Nov. 1812. In the Pandora he assisted at the capture, 31 Dec. 1810, of Le Chasseur privateer of 16 guns and 36 men; and while in the Briseis he served, 29 June, 1812, in the pinnace belonging to that vessel, containing 18 men, under the orders of Lieut. Thos. Jones, at the cutting-out from Pillau Roads the (lately British) merchant ship Urania, mounting 6 carriage-guns and 4 swivels, in the possession of some French troops, who, notwithstanding a spirited resistance, were driven off the decks into their boats, which were on the opposite side, with no greater loss to the assailants than one man killed and himself slightly wounded.[1] Being re-appointed to the Briseis in Sept. 1813, Lieut. Palmer continued attached to that sloop (with the exception, of an interval between Oct. 1814 and May, 1815, occasioned by ill health), under the command of Capts. Wm. Rush Jackson and Geo. Domett, until Jan. 1816. His last appointments were – 12 Sept. 1825, to the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye – 5 April, 1831 (on the latter service being abolished), to the Coast Guard – 11 Oct. 1834, to the command of the Skylark Revenue-vessel – and, 26 Sept. 1837, again to the charge (which he retained until advanced, as a reward for his services, to the rank he now holds 1 Jan. 1840) of a station in the Coast Guard. Commander Palmer is Senior of 1840.
PALMER. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
John Palmer entered the Navy 24 Nov. 1825; passed his examination 6 Jan. 1832; and at the period of his promotion to his present rank, which took place 26 Aug. 1841, was serving, as Mate, in the Southampton 50, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Durnford King at the Cape of Good Hope. His appointments have since been – 30 Aug. 1841, again to the Southampton – 10 March, 1843, to the Rose 18, Capts. Henry Rich. Sturt and Rich. Wilson Pelly, fitting for the North America and West India station, whence he returned home and was paid off at the close of 1846 – and, 12 Oct. 1847, as Additional-Lieutenant, to the Vindictive 50, bearing the flag of Sir Fras. Wm. Austen, Commander-in-
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1812, p. 1364. – Mr. James, in his ‘Naval History,’ has erroneously attributed the part borne in the affair by the subject of the present narrative to Mr. Wm. Palmer.
