on the latter occasion he was presented by the Patriotic Society with the sum of 100l. He was present, 21 April ensuing, at the capture of La Créole schooner-privateer of 14 guns. On being superseded from the Reindeer he was received, in May, 1806,[1] on board the Veteran 64, bearing the flag of Admiral Dacres. He cruized subsequently in the Gracieuse tender and assisted, either in her or her boats, at the capture of a variety of vessels on the Spanish Main, including the Vengeance privateer. At the taking of the latter vessel a long brass gun on board the Gracieuse went off twice by accident, taking the skin completely off Mr. Tudor’s feet and legs, and so injuring him about the face that he ultimately lost his right eye. On another occasion, while in the act of capturing a Spanish brig off the Havana, he was by the same gun blown up. He continued on the books of the Veteran until 3 Sept. 1808;[2] was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 15 Oct. in the same year; and was lastly, from Oct. 1808 until Feb. 1809, from Aug. 1810 until Jan. 1811, and from June, 1811, until May, 1813, employed in the Downs, North Sea, Channel, and Mediterranean, in the Glommen 18, Capt. Chas. Pickford, Partridge 18, Capts. Wm. Williams Foote and John Miller Adye, and Havannah 36, Capt. Hon. Geo. Cadogan. While in the Havannah Mr. Tudor shared, we are told, in every, but the first,[3] boat affair that took place. In 1812 he had 5 men wounded, and gained much credit for his conduct, at the cutting out from St. Tropez, on the coast of France, of a vessel, covered by a battery and a 30-gun store-ship. He assisted, 6 Jan. 1813, at the capture, in the Adriatic, by a division only of the Havannah’s boats, of a gun-boat, No. 8, greatly superior in force to the British, carrying 1 long 24-pounder and 35 men, prepared in every respect, and supported by musketry from the shore, to which she was made fast. A Master’s Mate, Mr. Edw. Percival, was in this instance killed and 2 seamen wounded. On 26 March, 1813, Mr. Tudor was at the taking of five armed trabacolos and five feluccas, laden with salt, near the town of Fortore. In a subsequent unsuccessful attempt made to obtain possession of that place, having landed, he succeeded with his own hands in rescuing one of his party who had fallen into the power of an officer and two men, the former of whom he also seized and carried away captive. On his way back to the boats, which he had left upwards of 20 minutes, he became exposed to a heavy fire of musketry, and received a shot through the right hand. The state of his health rendering necessary his return to England he invalided at Lissa, as above, in May, 1813. He had the gratification, as he left the ship, to be cheered by the men.
Lieut. Tudor married, 29 Jan. 1831, Anne, fifth daughter of the late Jas. Hereford, Esq., of Sufton Court, near Hereford, by whom he has left an only child, a daughter.
TUFNELL. (Lieutenant, 1847.)
Robert George Tufnell passed his examination 1 Jan. 1846; and was appointed, 1 June following. Mate of the Constance 50, Capts. Sir Baldwin Wake Walker and Geo. Wm. Conway Courtenay, fitting for the Pacific; where, on the occasion of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 14 Oct. 1847, he was nominated Additional of the Collingwood 80, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Fras. Seymour. He has been serving, since 25 Jan. 1848, on the same station, in the Juno 26, Capt. Patrick John Blake.
TULLIDGE. (Retired Captain, 1842. f-p., 20; h-p., 34.)
Joseph Crew Tullidge died 19 March, 1845, at Weymouth.
This officer entered the Navy, 12 Aug. 1793, as A.B., on board the Victory 100, Capts. John Knight and Geo. Grey. In that ship, which bore the flags of Lord Hood and Sir John Jervis, he served at the occupation of Toulon, at the reduction of Corsica, in Hotham’s action 13 July, 1795, and, as Quarter-Master, in the battle off Cape St. Vincent 14 Feb. 1797. He continued employed with the officer last mentioned, off Cadiz and Lisbon, in the Ville de Paris 110, until Jan. 1798; and after further serving, chiefly on the Mediterranean station, as Master’s Mate and Midshipman, in La Mutine sloop, Capts. Thos. Masterman Hardy, Hon. Thos. Bladen Capel, and Wm. Hoste, Princess Charlotte 38, Capts. T. M. Hardy and Thos. Stephenson, and Minotaur 74 and Foudroyant 80, flag-ships of Lord Keith, he was there, 19 Aug. 1800, nominated Acting-Lieutenant of his former ship the Princess Charlotte, commanded at first by Capt. Stephenson and next by Capts. Sir Edw. Berry and Hon. Fras. Farington Gardner. In the Mutine he returned to England with a duplicate of Nelson’s despatches relative to the battle of the Nile. He was confirmed a Lieutenant in the Princess Charlotte 17 Oct. 1800; he continued in that ship, latterly on the coast of Ireland, until May, 1803; and he was subsequently appointed – 4 Dec. following, to the Sea Fencibles at Southend – 3 July, 1804, to the Heron sloop, Capts. Philip Beaver and John Edgcumbe, on the Home and North American stations – 22 Jan. 1807, to the Africaine of 48 guns and 295 men, Capts. Rich. Raggett and Robt. Corbett – and, 6 May, 1811, to the Ameuica 74, Capt. Josias Rowley. The Africaine, after visiting the Baltic, Madeira, Lisbon, the Mediterranean, and America, proceeded off the Isle of France, where, at the end of a close action of two hours and a half, in which she sustained a loss of 49 men killed and 114 (including their Captain mortally) wounded, she struck her colours 13 Sept. 1810 to the French frigates Iphigénie and Astrée, carrying between them 86 guns and 618 men, 10 of whom were killed and 35 wounded. Capt. Corbett being disabled by the second broadside of the enemy, the command devolved upon Mr. Tullidge, who was Senior-Lieutenant, and who, as stated in the sentence of honourable acquittal passed by the court-martial, which assembled in April, 1811, to try him and the remainder of the officers and crew for the surrender of their ship, continued the action ”in the most gallant and determined manner, although he had received four severe wounds, as long as there was the least chance of preserving her from the enemy.” It may be as well to add, that the Africaine was re-taken shortly after her capture, but that Mr. Tullidge and about 90 others, having been removed to one of the French frigates, were carried to the Isle of France, and there detained until its reduction by the British in Dec. 1810.[4] Mr. Tullidge was advanced to the rank of Commander 1 Aug. 1811; and was employed in that capacity in the Clinker sloop, on the north coast of Spain, and on the Halifax and Home stations, from Oct. 1813 until Dec. 1815. He conveyed, during the Hundred Days’ war, the Duc de Douro and 200 French officers in the interests of Louis XVIII, together with 10,000 stand of arms, to the coast of France; and was engaged next in quelling riots at North and South Shields. He was allotted a pension of 150l. per annum for his wounds 4 April, 1816; and placed on the list of Retired Captains 7 Feb. 1842.
TULLIS. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 20; h-p., 22.)
William Tullis was born 29 Jan. 1789; and died in 1848. He was related to the present Capt. David Peat, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, in June, 1805, as Midshipman, on board the Centaur 74, Capt. Henry Whitby; in one of the boats of which ship he assisted in cutting out a privateer from under Cape Tiburon, St. Domingo. From Nov. 1805 until Oct, 1806 he served off Halifax in the Cleopatra 32, Capt. John Wight, and Leander 50, Capt. Rich. Raggett; he then joined the Royal William, Capt. Hon. Courtenay Boyle, lying at Spithead; and after
- ↑ He did not pass his examination until 4 Aug. following.
- ↑ He had then been upwards of six years in the West Indies.
- ↑ Performed near the Penmarcks under the present Capt. Wm. Hamley, to whose memoirs refer.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1811, p. 263.
