A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Tweed, John Powell
TWEED. (Commander, 1830. f-p., 19; h-p., 20.)
John Powell Tweed was born 26 Aug. 1794; and died 17 March, 1848, at Holton Parsonage, co. Suffolk.
This officer entered the Navy, 8 Jan. 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Eagle 74, Capt. Chas. Rowley; in which ship he continued employed as Midshipman and Master’s Mate until within a few weeks of his being promoted, 26 May, 1814, to the rank of Lieutenant. He was present in 1809 in the expedition to the Walcheren; in 1810, he co-operated in the defence of Cadiz; and he afterwards, while stationed in the Adriatic, assisted in the boats at the capture and destruction of several of the enemy’s forts and vessels, and co-operated in the reduction of Trieste. His appointments as Lieutenant were – 31 Aug. 1814, to the Bann 20, Capts. John Tancock, Thos. Whinyates, and Wm. Fisher, employed at first at Leith and in the Channel, and next on the coast of Africa – 28 Aug. 1816, to the Cherub 26, Capts. W. Fisher and Geo. Wickens Willes, also on the coast of Africa, where (as he had done in the Bann) he contributed to the capture of various slavers – 8 Sept. 1821, as First-Lieutenant (the Cherub had been paid off in Dec. 1818), to the Icarus 10, Capts. Thos. Herbert, Chas. Crole, and Alfred Matthews, fitting for the West Indies – 27 Nov. 1822, in a similar capacity, to the Sybille 48, bearing the flag on that station of his former Captain, then Sir Chas. Rowley – and, in 1825 (after about 12 months of half-pay), to the Superintendentship of the Naval Depôt on Lake Erie. He returned to England on the occasion of his promotion to the rank of Commander 22 July, 1830; and remained thenceforward on half-pay. He sufiered much, during his sojourn in Canada, from the Lake fever and ague. Agents – Messrs. Chard.