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A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Maling, Irwin

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1822037A Naval Biographical Dictionary — Maling, IrwinWilliam Richard O'Byrne

MALING. (Lieutenant, 1829.)

Irwin Maling died 26 March, 1845, at sea, on board the brig Royalist, from Sierra Leone, aged 32, having invalided at that place from H.M. steam-frigate Penelope on 8 of the previous Feb.

This officer entered the Navy 2 Feb. 1823; passed his examination in 1831; obtained his commission 16 Dec. 1839; and was appointed – on 20 of the same month, as Additional, to the Princess Charlotte 104, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Hon. Robt. Stopford – 14 March, 1840, to the Hydra steamer, of which vessel (commanded in the Mediterranean and in North America and the West Indies by Capts. Robt. Spencer Robinson and Alex. Murray) he became First-Lieutenant – and, 1 July, 1843, to the Penelope steam-frigate, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Wm. Jones on the coast of Africa.

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