fifty sail of the enemy’s vessels on various parts of the coast between Isle Dieu and Cape Finisterre. He subsequently made repeated visits to his Spanish friends, whose efforts in the cause of liberty form the subject of a long letter addressed by him to the conductors of the Naval Chronicle in May 1812[1].
The subject of this memoir’s eldest brother, George Neate Tremlett, served as a Midshipman in the battle of June 1, 1794; assisted at the capture of three French men of war off l’Orient in June 23, 1795; and was present at the defeat of M. Bompard by Sir John B. Warren, Oct. 12, 1798. His name still appears on the list of Lieutenants, to which rank he was promoted Aug. 1, 1794. Another brother, Richard Stiles Tremlett, Lieut. R.N., who had previously shared the sufferings of the gallant Riou in H.M.S. Guardian, was killed in a duel with the late Lord Camelford, at Martinique.
Agent.– J. Hinxman, Esq.
SAMUEL PYM, Esq
[Post-Captain of 1802.]
This officer was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in Mar. 1795; and served as such, for some time, on board la Babet, a 20 gun ship, stationed at the Leeward Islands.
On the 16th Jan. 1798, he volunteered to proceed with two boats in pursuit of a schooner which had been standing towards la Babet, but hauled off on discovering her to be a ship of war, and was then sweeping away between Martinique and Dominica. After a fatiguing pull of four hours, during which his own boat left her companion considerably behind, he arrived within gun-shot of the stranger, who opened and kept up a steady fire until he got alongside, when a desperate struggle took place, which ended in the schooner’s submission, just as the other boat rowed up to his assistance. The prize proved to be la Desirée, French national vessel, of 6 guns and 46 men, 4 of whom were slain, 8 drowned, and 15 badly wounded. Lieutenant Pym fortunately had only 1 man killed, and another drowned; but 5 of his gallant little band
- ↑ See Nav. Chron. Vol. 28, p 208, et seq.
