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CARPENTER.
Capt. Wm. Pryce Cumby, until Nov. 1S13. He was afterwards, until Aug. 1815, employed with the latter officer in the Channel and Bay of Biscay, and assisted at the capture, 3 June, 1814, after a long chase, of the Rattlesnake American privateer, of 16 guns. Mr. Carpenter was next attached for some months to the St. George 100, and Impregnable 98, flag-ships of Sir J. T. Duckworth at Plymouth; and, from April, 1816, until his return home in Oct. 1820, he further served, under the flag of Sir Rich. King, Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies, on board the Magicienne and Orlando frigates, and in the Minden 74, of which ship he was confirmed a Lieutenant 20 Jan. 1818. He has not been employed since the close of 1820. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
CARPENTER. (Captain, 1846. f-p., 17; h-p., 17.)
Edward John Carpenter is son of the late Wm. Carpenter, Esq., of Toft Monks, co. Norfolk, by Louisa, sister of the late Rear-Admiral Sir Edw. Berry, Bart., the distinguished companion in arms of the immortal Nelson, with whom he fought in the action off Cape St. Vincent, also as his Flag-Captain at the battle of the Nile, and in command of the Agamemnon at Trafalgar. Sir Edw. Berry, who was on board the Leander 50 when that ship was taken, after a deadly resistance, by the French 74 Le Généreux, further commanded the Foudroyant 80, at the memorable capture of Le Guillaume Tell, and the Agamemnon in Sir John Duckworth’s action with the French fleet off St. Domingo.
This officer entered the Navy, 15 Oct. 1813, on board the Barfleur 98,[1] commanded in the Mediterranean by his gallant uncle, Sir E. Berry; on his removal with whom to the Royal Sovereign yacht, we find him employed in attendance upon the Allied Sovereigns on the occasion of their visit to this country. After an interval of rather more than three years, part of which period was passed at the Royal Naval College, he re-embarked, 20 Oct. 1817, on board the Inconstant frigate, Capt. Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo, stationed on the coast of Africa, where he served until his return home in Sept. 1818. After a further employment of more than five years on the East India and North America and West India stations, on board the Phaeton 46, Capts. Wm. Henry Dillon, Sir Wm. Augustus Montagu, and Henry Evelyn Pitfield Sturt, Mr. Carpenter – who had passed his examination 9 Oct. 1821, and had contributed, in the early part of 1823, to the capture, during an arduous boat-cruize off the island of Cuba, of two piratical vessels – rejoined the Royal Sovereign, then commanded by Sir Michael Seymour, from which vessel he was promoted, on the consummation of a particular service, performed with the Lords of the Admiralty on board, to the rank of Lieutenant by commission dated 10 Aug. 1824. From 9 March, 1825, until detained at Malta as a witness on the trial of some pirates, 20 Feb. 1827, he next served on the Mediterranean station, in the Gannet 18, Capt. Fras. Brace. He attained the rank of Commander 30 April in the latter year; and after an interval of half-pay, one year of which was devoted, with the permission of their lordships, to the study of the higher branches of mathematics at the Royal Naval College, was appointed, 3 Dec. 1834, to the Scylla 16, in which sloop he appears to have been employed in the West Indies until paid off, 10 April, 1836. Capt. Carpenter’s last appointment was to the command, 13 Dec. 1841, of the Geyser steam-sloop, again in the Mediterranean. He was advanced to Post-rank on the paying off of that vessel, 2 July, 1846, and has not since been afloat.
Capt. Carpenter took out a patent, in June, 1840, for a new mode of propelling vessels by means of blades or fans placed on each quarter of a vessel submerged, working on the principle of a screw. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
CARPENTER. (Admiral of the White, 1837. f-p., 20; h-p., 49.)
James Carpenter died, 16 March, 1845, at 26, Cumberland Street, Portman Square, London, in his 86th year.
This officer entered the Navy, 11 April, 1776, as Midshipman, on board the Foudroyant SO, commanded as a guardship at Plymouth by Capt. John Jervis, afterwards Earl St. Vincent. In the course of the same year he sailed for North America in the Diamond 32, Capt. Chas. Fielding; and, on next joining the Sultan 74, commanded successively by the latter officer and by Capt. Alan Gardner, he shared, as Master’s Mate, in Byron’s action with the Comte d’Estaing In 1779. After acting for some time in 1780 as Lieutenant of the Rover 10, Capt. John Thos. Duckworth, Mr. Carpenter resumed his duties, as Midshipman, on board the Sandwich, bearing the flag in the West Indies of Sir Geo. Brydges Rodney; but in the same year was again constituted an Acting-Lieutenant in the Intrepid 64, Capt. J. P. Molloy, part of the fleets under Graves and Hood in their actions off the Chesapeake and St. Kitt’s. Between the date of his confirmation in the latter rank, 18 April, 1782, and of his promotion to the command, 9 Jan. 1794, of the Nautilus 18, he appears to have been employed at intervals, on the Home and West India stations, in the Salisbury 50, Commodore Sir John Jervis, Bombay Castle 74, Capt. John Thos. Duckworth, and Prince and Boyne 98’s, both flagships of the former officer. We then find him serving on shore, with a detachment of seamen under the orders of Capt. Elias Harvey, at the reduction of Martinique, and receiving the public thanks of Sir Geo. Grey, the Military Commander-in-Chief, for his active co-operation. His patron, Sir J. Jervis, also testified the estimation in which he held his conduct, by investing him with the command of the Bien-Venu alias Undaunted, a prize frigate, to which the Admiralty confirmed him by commission dated 25 March in the same year, 1794. Capt. Carpenter, who next joined in succession the Veteran 64 and Alarm 32, further united, while in the latter ship, with the army under General Sir John Vaughan, in reducing to submission the Charibs and negroes of St. Vincent, Grenada, and Dominica, who, encouraged by the French republicans from Guadeloupe, were committing the most horrible acts of cruelty on the defenceless inhabitants. Sir John Vaughan, in his public despatches, particularly mentioned the zeal and activity at all times displayed by Capt. Carpenter on this service. About the same time the Alarm, in company with the Bellona 74, captured, off the island of Deseada, Le Duras, of 20 guns and 70 men, having on board 400 troops. After an interval of about four years’ half-pay, Capt. Carpenter, who had returned to England in the Quebec 32, assumed command, in 1799, of the Leviathan 74, Sir John Duckworth’s flag-ship, in which, when in company with the Swiftsure 74, and Emerald 36, in the Gut of Gibraltar, he contributed to the capture, in April, 1805 [errata 1], of two Spanish frigates, each mounting 36 guns, and having on board 3000 quintals of quicksilver, together with 11 sail of richly laden merchantmen. Being ultimately compelled to invalid from the Leeward Islands, where Sir John Duckworth had been appointed to the chief command, Capt. Carpenter, while on his passage home in a merchantman, was taken, about the commencement of 1801, by the French, and sent as prisoner of war to Spain, whence, however, Earl St. Vincent soon procured his release, in exchange for a Lieut.-Colonel and two other officers. He then, until the peace of Amiens, commanded the San Josef 110; and afterwards had charge, from 1803 until 1810, and from 1811 until Aug. 1812, of an extensive district of Sea Fencibles in Devonshire, and of the Antelope 50, flag-ship at Newfoundland of his old
- ↑ The Barfleur formed part of a fleet under Sir Edward Pellew, and was much damaged in an encounter with the enemy off Toulon 13 Feb. 1814.
