Master R.N.; and nephew of the late Commanders Rich. Sainthill and Robt. Tillidge, R.N.
This officer (whose name had been borne, in 1790-1, on the books of the Speedwell 8) embarked, 24 Feb. 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Zealand 64, guard-ship at the Nore, Capt. Wm. Mitchell, with whom he continued until May, 1802. Joining next, in May, 1803, the Raisonnable 64, Capts. Wm. Hotham, Robt. Barton, and Josias Rowley, he took part, in that ship, in several attacks on the enemy’s batteries and flotilla on the coast of France, fought in Sir Robt. Calder’s action 22 July, 1805, and was present, in 1806, at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope, the surrender of the French frigate 'Volontaire' of 46 guns, and the capture of Buenos Ayres. As Sub-Lieutenant of the Staunch gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Benj. Street, to which vessel he was appointed 11 June, 1809, we find him, in Sept. 1810, contributing, near the Ile de Bourbon, to the recapture of the Africaine 38, and to the capture of the French frigate La Vénus, of 44 guns and 380 men, and her prize, the Ceylon 32. After acting for a short time as Lieutenant and Commander of the Staunch, he was nominated, 13 Oct. 1810, Flag-Lieutenant, in the Africaine, to Vice-Admiral Albemarle Bertie, under whom he united in the ensuing operations against the Mauritius and its dependencies. On the surrender of that island he was placed in superintendence, there, of the Signal Department; the duties attached to which he continued to discharge (assisting in the interim at the capture of two French frigates) until Sept. 1811. In the following Dec. he became Acting-Senior-Lieutenant of the Madagascar 38, Capt. Chas. Sullivan; and on 23 April, 1812, a few days after that ship had been paid off, he was officially advanced to his present rank. He next, from 27 Aug. 1812 until 24 Dec. 1815, served at Newfoundland and in the West Indies in the Muros 12, Capts. Jas. Aberdour, Thos. Saville Griffinhoofe, and Geo. Gosling; of which vessel he was Senior-Lieutenant at the reduction of Guadeloupe. He has been Superintendent of Signals in the island of Jersey since 3 Dec. 1833.
Lieut. Sainthill married Mary Ann, daughter of Thos. Quirk, Esq., and has by her two children.
SALKELD. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 33.)
Thomas Salkeld entered the Navy, 2 April, 1803, as Ordinary, on board the Thunderer 74, Capt. Wm. Bedford, attached to the Channel fleet, with which he served until the following Aug. He next, 2 Oct. 1805, joined the Thetis 38, Capt. Wm. Hall Gage, stationed in the North Sea; in May, 1806, he became Midshipman of the St. George 98, Capt. Thos. Bertie, again in the Channel; and from 31 Dec. 1807, until the receipt, in June, 1815, of a commission, bearing date 4 Feb. in that year, he was actively employed among the Western Islands, in the West Indies, and in the Mediterranean, as Master’s Mate, Acting-Lieutenant, and a second time as Master’s Mate, in the Undaunted 38, Capts. Thos. Jas. Mating, Geo. Chas. Mackenzie, Rich. Thomas, Rowland Mainwaring, Thos. Ussher, and Chas. Thurlow Smith. While serving with Capt. Ussher we find him, 18 March, 1813, employed as Acting-Lieutenant in the boats under Lieut. Aaron Tozer at the storming of a battery containing 4 long 24-pounders, 16-pounder, and a 13-inch mortar (the whole of which were destroyed) at Carri, to the westward of Marseilles, whence a tartan was at the same time brought out. The enemy on the occasion were strongly posted behind palisadoes, and stood their ground until the British were in the act of charging bayonets, when they turned and suffered a severe loss. The assailants had only 2 men killed and 1 wounded.[1] Since 14 Dec. 1846, Lieut. Salkeld, who had not been employed since his promotion, has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
SALMON. (Retired Commander, 1843. f-p., 16; h-p., 34.)
John Salmon entered the Navy, in Oct. 1797, as a Volunteer, on board the Galatea 32, Capt. Hon. Geo. Byng, in which frigate he served on the coast of Ireland until Dec. 1799, in the capacity of Midshipman. He was next, from Jan. 1800 until April, 1805, employed, chiefly as Master’s Mate, and Acting Master, in the Dromedary store-ship, Capt. Bridges Watkinson Taylor (under whom he was wrecked in the Bocca, off Trinidad, 10 Aug. 1800), Daphne 20, Capt. Rich. Matson, Cyane 18, Capt. Henry Matson, Éclair schooner, Lieut.-Commanders Kenneth Mackenzie, D. Callaway, Pollock, Wm. Carr, R. Sutton, Beckett, and Evelyn, and Centaur 74, Commodore Sir Sam. Hood, all on the West India station; where, on leaving the Centaur he was placed in command, with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant, of the Amboyna prison-ship. When Acting-Master of the Éclair, whose force did not exceed 12 18-pounder carronades and 60 men, he assisted, 5 Feb. 1804, in beating off and putting to flight the celebrated French privateer Grand Décidé, of 22 long 8-pounders and a complement, including 80 soldiers, of about 220 men, after a most gallant engagement of 45 minutes, productive to the British of a loss of not more than 1 man killed and 4 wounded. Their vessel, however, had her standing and running rigging cut to pieces, and her barricade, masts, and yards much damaged. In command of the Éclair’s cutter, manned with 11 volunteers, Mr. Salmon, on 5 of the following month, boarded (in the face of a heavy fire from a battery at the entrance of the harbour of Hayes, Guadeloupe, and from the vessel herself) and, after a short resistance of 10 minutes, carried the French privateer Rose of 1 long brass 8-pounder on a pivot and 49 men well armed and fully prepared. Of these 5 were killed and 10, including the Captain and 4 that jumped overboard, wounded – no casualty whatever occurring to the British, who, although in a dead calm and exposed to a fire of great guns and musketry from the shore, contrived, by dint of towing and sweeping, to carry off their prize. Towards the close of 1805 Mr. Salmon was removed from the Amboyna to the command, still with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant, of the Tobago schooner of 10 guns; in which vessel, after having been for some months employed in exchanging prisoners of war between the dépôts at Barbadoes, Grenada, and Guadeloupe, he was captured, 18 Oct. 1806, despite a brave resistance of an hour and a half, by the French privateer Général Ernest. On being restored to liberty, he was presented with a commission bearing date 24 June, 1807, and was appointed, in the course of the same month, to the Argus sloop, Capt. Jas. Stuart, on the Irish station, where he cruized until obliged, in Dec. 1810, to invalid. From 9 March, 1812, until 17 April, 1815, he was employed in the Impress service at Liverpool. He accepted the rank of Commander on the Retired List 10 April, 1843.
SALTER. (Lieut., 1813. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
John Salter entered the Navy, 11 Oct. 1805, as Midshipman, on board the Superb 74, Capts. Rich. Goodwin Keats and Donald M‘Leod; in which ship he fought under the flag of Sir John Thos. Duckworth in the action off St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806, and accompanied, in 1807, the expedition to the Dardanells. Removing, in Jan. 1808, to the Defiance 74, Capt. Hon. Henry Hotham, he served in that ship with a squadron under Rear-Admiral Hon. Robt. Stopford, at the destruction, 24 Feb. 1809, of three French frigates under the batteries of Sable d’Olonne, on the coast of France, after a contest in which the Defiance, added to severe damage experienced in her sails and rigging, sustained a loss of 2 men killed and 25 wounded. After much active service on the north coast of Spain, he followed Capt. Hotham as Master’s Mate,[2] in Sept. 1810, into
