the batteries of Sable d’Olonne, on the coast of France, after a contest in which the Defiance, added to severe damages experienced in her sails and rigging, sustained a loss of 2 men killed and 25 wounded. In the Northumberland he assisted, 22 May, 1812, in company with the Growler gun-brig, in destroying, at the entrance of L’Orient, the French 40-gun frigates L’Arienne and L’Andromaque, and 16-gun brig Mamelouck; whose united fire, conjointly with that of a heavy battery, killed 5 and wounded 28 of the Northumberland’s people. In Jan. 1813 Mr. Pilch removed to the Valiant 74, Capt. Robt. Dudley Oliver. Rejoining Capt. Hotham, however, in the following March, he continued to serve with him from that period until April, 1815, on the coast of North America, in the San Domingo -and Asia 74’s and Tonnant 80, flag-ships of Sir John Borlase Warren and Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, Forth 40, and Superb 74. His promotion took place 24 Sept. 1814; and from 28 Feb. 1827 until appointed, in 1848, a Naval Knight of Windsor, he held command of a station in the Coast Guard.
PILKINGTON. (Commander, 1830. f-p., 19; h-p., 11.)
Edward Williams Pilkington, born 14 Dec. 1803, is second son of the late Rev. Chas. Pilkington, Canon Residentiary of Chichester, by Harriet Elizabeth, daughter of the late Wm. Williams, Esq.; and nephew, maternally, of the late Vice-Admiral Sir Geo. Murray, K.C.B., who commanded the Edgar 74, and led the fleet under Lord Nelson into action in the attack on the Danish line of defence before Copenhagen 2 April, 1801.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 7 Aug. 1817, and in Dec. 1818, having carried off the Silver Medal, embarked on board -the Newcastle 60, Capt. Arthur Fanshawe, bearing the flag of the late Sir Edw. Griffith Colpoys, on the North American station, whence he returned home and was paid off in Jan. 1822. Joining next the Active and Phaeton of 46 guns each, Capts. Andrew King and Wm. Aug. Montagu, he escorted George IV. in the latter ship on the occasion of his visit to Scotland, and then sailed, under Capt. Henry Evelyn Pitfield Sturt, for the West Indies, where he was soon actively employed in the suppression of piracy and the slave-trade. In Dec. 1823 he became attached, as a passed Midshipman, to the Camelion 10, Capt. Geo. Robt. Lambert, also on the West India station; and on being subsequently, 22 Oct. 1824, appointed Mate of the Boadicea 46, Commodore Sir Jas. Brisbane, he proceeded to the East Indies. Uniting, on his arrival, in the hostilities in force against the Burmese, he took command, with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant (order dated 22 Oct. 1825), of the Boadicea’s barge and a division of gun-boats; and was present at the storming of Nepadee, the capture of Meaday, Melloone, Pagahmmew, &c., and in the various operations on the river Irawady. On the ratification of peace he was intrusted with the duty of protecting the rear of the army in its retrograde movement towards Rangoon – a service of no small difficulty, as the enemy, either in ignorance of the treaty, or with the view of plundering, never lost an opportunity of attacking the boats of the Commissariat, the merchants, and others. Mr. Pilkington’s vigilance and exertions, however, had the effect of saving a considerable amount of property, and were so fully estimated that they procured him the thanks of a large body of British, Bengalee, and Armenian traders. On leaving the Boadicea, to which frigate he had been confirmed by commission dated 29 April, 1826, he was turned over, in Aug. of that year, to the Warspite 76, Capts. Hon. Rich. Saunders Dundas and Wm. Parker; under whom, having returned through the Pacific to Europe, we find him employed in the Tagus and at the blockade, against the Egyptians, of the Greek ports in the Mediterranean; where, while off the harbour of Navarin, he contributed to the capture of a corvette and sloop-of-war who had endeavoured to force a passage with provisions and specie for the army under Ibrahim Pacha. Being next, 1 Dec. 1829, appointed Flag-Lieutenant, in the Winchester 52, to Sir E. G. Colpoys, then again Commander-in-Chief in North America and the West Indies, he was by him promoted, 16 Aug. 1830, to a death-vacancy in the Rose 18. In that sloop Commander Pilkington was at first engaged in protecting the North American fisheries and the settlements of the Hudson’s Bay Company in Labrador against the encroachments of the United States, and afterwards in conducting the naval operations at Black River, Jamaica, during the insurrection in 1831 and 1832. Prior to the departure thence of the Rose, the command of which vessel he resigned in April, 1832, Commander Pilkington had the gratification of receiving an animated acknowledgment of his services in the shape of an address signed by Major-General Robertson, the officers of the Militia, and the proprietors and inhabitants of the district of St. Elizabeth. He subsequently, from 13 July, 1838, until 1841, officiated as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard; in which service, since 29 Sept. 1846, he has been again employed.
He married, 29 April, 1835, at Chichester, Louisa Frances, only daughter of the Rev. W. S. Bayton, of Eastergate, by whom he has issue five children. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
PINHORN. (Lieut., 1818. f-p., 19; h-p., 17.)
William Pinhorn died 23 July, 1845, at Sunderland, in his 48th year.
This officer entered the Navy, 21 Nov. 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Leda 36, Capt. Geo. Sayer, with whom he continued actively employed in the East Indies as Midshipman, and the last nine months as Acting-Lieutenant, until Dec. 1816 – assisting during that period at the reduction of Java and in a desperate attack made upon the pirates of Sambas in the island of Borneo. From March, 1817, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 20 Jan. 1818, he served with Capt. Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer in the Severn 40 and Ganymede 26, on the Home and Mediterranean stations. In 1827-8 he held an appointment in the Coast Blockade as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Ramillies 74, Capt. Hugh Pigot; and from 18 May, 1835, until the period of his death he commanded, with the exception of a short interval in 1842, a station in the Coast Guard. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
PINTO. (Retired Captain, 1840. f-p., 14; h-p., 38.)
Thomas Pinto was born 5 March, 1772.
This officer entered the Navy, 5 Sept. 1795, as A.B., on board the Powerful 74, Capt. Wm. O’Brien Drury, lying at Spithead; and in the course of the same year joined the Magicienne 32, Capt. Geo. Martin, under whom, deducting a short time passed in 1798 on board the Pallas troop-ship, Capt. Joseph Edmonds, he continued to serve as Midshipman and Master’s Mate for about six years in the Irresistible and Northumberland 74’s. In the Irresistible he fought in the action off Cape St. Vincent, 14 Feb. 1797 -, and on 26 April following contributed, in company with the Emerald 36, to the capture, after a smart contest of an hour, of the Ninfa and Santa Elena Spanish frigates, which had been pursued into Conil Bay, near Cape Trafalgar. In the Northumberland he witnessed the capture of the 74-gun ship Le Généreux and frigate La Diane, assisted at the blockade of Malta, and participated in the operations of 1801 in Egypt. After further serving on the Mediterranean and Home stations in the Foudroyant 80, flag-ship of Lord Keith, Africaine 38, Capt. Thos. Manby, and Colossus 74 and Glory 98, both commanded by Capt. Geo. Martin, as Acting-Lieutenant in the Favorite sloop, Capt. Wm. Williams Foote, and again as Master’s Mate in the Glory, under the flag of Sir John Orde, he was officially promoted, 20 Feb. 1805, into the Agamemnon 64, Capts. John
