This officer entered the Navy 27 June, 1828; obtained his first commission 20 July, 1836; and was afterwards appointed – 5 Oct. 1836, as Additional-Lieutenant, to the Winchester 52, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Thos. Bladen Capel in the East Indies – 20 June, 1837, to the Victor 16, Capt. Rich. Crozier, on the same station, whence he returned in 1839 – and, 30 Jan. 1840, to the Andromache 26, Capt. Robt. Lambert Baynes, at the Cape of Good Hope. He was advanced to the rank he now holds 10 Feb. 1844, nearly 12 months after the Andromache had been paid off. His last appointment was to the Rose 18, which vessel he commanded on the North America and West India station from 13 Dec. 1844, until put out of commission at the close of 1846.
PENFOLD. (Lieut., 1823. f-p., 36; h-p., 1.)
George Penfold was born, 19 July, 1798, at Plymouth, co. Devon.
This officer (who had previously served as a Volunteer, in the Iris 36, Capt. John Tower, and had assisted, when in company, in 1807, with the Tribune 36 and Martial gun-brig, in beating off a large flotilla of Spanish gun-boats near Ferrol) entered the Navy, 26 Jan. 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Solebay 32, Capt. Hon. Granville Leveson Proby, employed in the North Sea and Baltic. In Nov. 1810 he removed to the Kron Princess, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Spearing Osmer, lying in the river Medway; and in Sept. 1812, after having again served, for 12 months, in the Solebay, under the flag, at North Yarmouth, of Rear-Admiral Robt. Murray, he became Midshipman of the Horatio 38, Capt. Lord Geo. Stuart; under whom, in Dec. 1813, on his return from, the Cape of Good Hope to the North Sea, he contributed to the reduction of the islands of Schouwen and Tholen. Following Lord Geo. Stuart, in March, 1814, into the Newcastle 50, he continued employed in that ship, under the command of Capts. Sam. Roberts and Henry Meynell, in North America and the West Indies, until transferred, 16 April, 1816, to the Pactolus 38, Capt. Wm. Hugh Dobbie. On leaving the latter ship, in which he had been again serving on the North American station, Mr. Penfold, in Sept. 1817, passed his examination. He was subsequently, between Aug. 1818 and Oct. 1823, employed a second time in the West Indies, on board the Ontario 18, Capt. Geo. Gosling, Confiance 18, Capts. Alex. Montgomerie and Robt. Gordon, Serapis receiving-ship, Lieut.-Commander Geo. Vernon Jackson, and Esk 20, Capt. Arthur Lee Warner. He was created a Lieutenant of the vessel last mentioned 15 Feb. 1823; and since 15 Nov. in the same year has been in command of a station in the Coast Guard.
In Jan. 1837 his name, at the recommendation of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, was placed on the Admiralty list for promotion, for services rendered to the Government of that country. The Lieutenant, who was formerly for nine years in the Commission of the Peace, married, 3 March, 1824, Mary, daughter of John and Bridget Collier, of Balbiggan, co. Dublin, by whom he has had issue seven children. Agent – J. Chippendale.
PENGELLEY. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 16;[1] h-p., 35.)
Charles Pengelley entered the Navy, in 1796, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Atlas 98, Capts. Edm. Dod and Matthew Squire, stationed in the Channel; where, and in the Mediterranean, he served, as Midshipman, from 1798 until 1802, in the Pomone 40, Capt. Robt. Carthew Reynolds, and Immortalité 36, Capt. Hon. Henry Hotham. He then, in succession, joined the San Josef 110, Capts. Wm. Wolseley and Jas. Carpenter, and Tonnant 80, Capt. Sir Edw. Pellew, both attached to the Channel fleet; and on 16 Feb. 1805 he was made Lieutenant into the Thisbe 28, Capt. Lewis Shepheard, employed at first in the Mediterranean, and then on the Guernsey station. He invalided in the following Sept.; and was afterwards appointed – 27 June and 28 July, 1806, to the Windsor Castle 98, Capt. Chas. Boyles, and Royal George 100, Capt. Rich. Dalling Dunn, under whom, after having served with Sir John Thos. Duckworth at the passage of the Dardanells, he sailed for the West Indies – 29 July, 1809, to the Fylla 22, Capt. Hon. Edw. Rodney, employed off Oporto, Guernsey, and Jersey – 1 May, 1810, to the Hamadryad 36, Capt. Sir Thos. Staines, in which ship, until April, 1812, when his health again obliged him to invalid, we find him engaged in cruizing off the Western Islands, escorting troops to the mouth of the Tagus, accompanying a fleet of Indiamen from St. Helena to the Downs, and serving off the coast of Ireland – 5 Jan. 1813, to the San Josef 110, flag-ship of Sir Rich. King in the Mediterranean – and, 6 July following, to the flotilla service in the Faro of Messina. For his conduct in leading a division of the flotilla in the attack upon Genoa,[2] he was nominated, 18 April, 1814, Acting-Commander of the Guadeloupe 16, in which sloop he remained for a period of three months. He was confirmed in his present rank 20 Sept. in the same year; and was afterwards employed for same time in the Water and Coast Guard.
Commander Pengelley’s eldest son, Charles William, married in 1839 the only surviving child of Capt. Wm. Rogers, of the Holyhead station.
PENGELLEY. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 32.)
John Pengelley is son of the late Capt. John Pengelley, R.N., who, when commanding the Viper cutter, of 14 4-pounders and 48 men, distinguished himself by his gallantry in effecting the capture, 13 March, 1797, and 26 Dec. 1799, of the privateers Piteous Virgin Maria, carrying 10 4 and 6-pounders, 8 swivels, and 42 men, and Furet, of 14 4-pounders and 57 men.
This officer entered the Navy, in Jan. 1804, as Midshipman, on board the Pegasus 28, commanded by his father, with whom he was stationed off Harwich until June, 1806. In Feb. 1807 he became a Student at the Royal Naval College; and in Feb. 1810 he again embarked, on board the Pheasant 18, Capt. John Palmer, attached to the force in the Channel; where, and off Flushing and the coast of North America, he served, from June, 1812, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 8 Feb. 1815, in the York 74, Capts. Robt. Barton and Alex. Wilmot Schomberg. He has since been on half-pay. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
PENGELLY. (Lieutenant, 1812. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
Henry Pengelly entered the Navy, 30 Aug. 1805, as L.M., on board the Prince Frederick, Lieut.-Commander Jas. Leach, lying in Plymouth Harbour; removed, in Feb. 1806, to the Diamond 38, Capt. Thos. Elphinstone, attached to the Channel Fleet; and from the following Aug. until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 21 March, 1812, was employed as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, on the Home, Baltic, and American stations, in the Solebay, Iris, and Spartan frigates, Capts. John Tower, Hon. Granville Leveson Proby, Thos. Geo. Shortland, and Edw. Pelham Brenton. With the exception of an interval, between Sept. 1812 and Feb. 1813, he continued to serve on the coast of America in the Aeolus 32, Capt. Lord Jas. Townshend, Loire 38, Capt. Thos. Brown, and Bulwark 74, Capt. Farmery Predam Epworth, until May, 1815, since which period he has been on half-pay.
Lieut. Pengelly married, at Jamaica, in 1834, Charlotte, youngest daughter of J. Heriott, Esq., formerly of Mexican Estate, in that island.
PENGELLY. (Lieutenant, 1826.)
Robert Lamport Pengelly entered the Navy 27 June, 1809; passed his examination in 1817; and while serving in 1826 in a tender belonging to the
