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SUPERANNUATED REAR-ADMIRALS.
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Captain Warre subsequently commanded the Adamant of 50 guns; he was placed on the list of Superannuated RearAdmirals, Aug. 31, 1810.

Agent.– Thomas Stilwell, Esq.




WILLIAM CARTHEW, Esq
[Superannuated Rear-Admiral.]

This officer was made a Post-Captain, May 10, 1794; and in the same year commanded the Redoubt, of 20 guns, stationed at Sheerness as a floating battery. In 1795 he was appointed to the Brilliant, a small frigate, on the North Sea station; from which he removed into the Regulus, 44, and proceeded to the West Indies. On his passage thither, Nov. 2, 1796, he captured El San Pio, a Spanish corvette of 18 guns. Captain Carthew appears to have left the Regulus on the Jamaica station, in 1798. He was superannuated, with the rank of Rear-Admiral, Aug. 18, 1812.

Agent.– Sir F. M. Ommanney.




SANDFORD TATHAM, Esq
[Superannuated Rear-Admiral.]

During the Russian armament, in 1791, this officer commanded the Argo, a 44-gun ship, armed en flute, in North America. In 1793, he was appointed to the Dromedary, store-ship, and accompanied the expedition under Sir John Jervis and Sir Charles Grey, to the West Indies.

On the 8th Feb. 1794, whilst employed in covering the debarkation of the third brigade of the army on the side of Cas de Navires, in the island of Martinique, the Dromedary, venturing too near the battery on Point Negro, received a shot between wind and water, and a second through her upper works, which killed 1 man and wounded 4, among whom was Captain Tatham.

Our officer was promoted to the rank of Post-Captain, Nov. 4, 1794; employed on the Impress service, in 1798 and 1799; and obtained the superannuation of a Rear-Admiral, Dec. 7, 1813.

Residence.– Armitage, near Rugeley, Staffordshire.




FREDERICK WATKINS, Esq
[Superannuated Rear-Admiral.]

Soon after the commencement of the French revolutionary