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two years on half-pay he was for a short time appointed, 4 Oct. 1819, to the Redpole 10, Capt. Wm. Devereux Evance, lying at Portsmouth; subsequently to which we find him employed, from 26 April, 1824, until 1826, on the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Ramillies 74, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot, – next, until 29 Dec. 1831, as Agent for Transports Afloat – from 14 Aug. 1832, until 30 Jan. 1837, in command of the Semaphore at Haste Hill – and, from 3 Feb. 1837, until superseded- at his own request, 15 Dec. 1841, again in the Transport Service. He has since been on half-pay.
CHAPMAN. (Captain, 1824. f-p., 24; h-p., 31.)
Isham Fleming Chapman is son of the late Isham Chapman, Esq., who, for more than half a century, held an appointment under the Board of Customs.
This officer entered the Navy, in Nov. 1792, as Midshipman, on board the Rattler sloop, in which he sailed for the South Seas on a voyage of discovery. In 1797 he joined the Diana 38, Capt. Jonathan Faulknor, on the Irish station; and, from 1798, until May, 1802, he served in the West Indies, latterly as Acting-Lieutenant, on board the Brunswick 74, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Rich. Rodney Bligh, Décade, Capt. Wm. Geo. Rutherford, and Fortunée 36, Capt. Henry Vansittart. While in the Décade he was wounded in the course of a cutting-out expedition : in the Fortunée he assisted, with the boats, at the capture of a privateer of 100 men. On 11 Feb. 1808, he was promoted to a Lieutenancy, in the Invincible 74, Capts. Ross Donnelly and Chas. Adam, under the former of whom, when at the siege of Cadiz in 1810, he signalised himself by the handsome manner in which he volunteered his services at the defence of Fort Matagorda, and was again wounded.[1] We afterwards find him appointed, in succession, as First-Lieutenant – 12 Nov. 1810, and 19 Dec. 1811, to the Téméraire 98 and Royal George 100, flag-ships off Toulon of Rear-Admiral Fras. Pickmore – 14 Oct. 1813, to the Curaçoa 36, Capt. John Tower, under whom he assisted at the reduction of Genoa – 22 April, 1814, to the Edinburgh 74, Capt. Hon. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dundas, of which ship he became for a short time Acting-Captain – and next, to the Maeander 38, Capt. Burton, Queen 74, flagship of Rear-Admiral Chas. Vinicombe Penrose, Malta 84, Capt. Wm. Chas. Fahie (under whom he beheld the fall of Gaeta), and Bombay 74, Capt. Henry Bazely. Having attained the rank of Commander, 31 Aug. 1815, Capt. Chapman, on 29 Dec. 1818, joined the Nautilus 18, fitting at Deptford for the St. Helena station, from which vessel he was for a brief period transferred, 30 Dec. 1820, as Acting-Captain to the Euryalus 42, at Jamaica; and, on 29 Dec. 1824, he was posted, from L’Espiègle 18, in which he had been surveying the western coast of Africa, into the Ariadne 26, attached to the force at the Cape of Good Hope. Capt. Chapman, who had not been employed since Jan. 1826, accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846.
CHAPMAN. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
James Chapman was born 9 April, 1791.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Oct. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Nassau 64, Capt. Robt. Campbell; attained the rating of Midshipman, 22 June, 1808; and – if we except the period of a few months, from 25 Nov. 1809, to 4 April, 1810, when we find him on board the Owen Glendower 36, Capt. Wm. Selby, stationed off Cherbourg – continued uninterruptedly to serve under Capt. Campbell, in the Nassau, the Stately, another 64, and the Tremendous 74, until July, 1814. During that period, while in the Nassau, he was for two years employed in blockading the Texel, and, after attending the expedition to Copenhagen in Aug. and Sept. 1807, was (on the Nassau’s hard-wrought extrication from a mass of ice in which she had been blocked up during the whole winter) present, 22 March, 18O8, in company with the Stately 64, at the capture and destruction, on the coast of Zealand, of the Danish 74-gun ship Prindts Christian-Frederic, after a running fight of great length and obstinacy, in which the Nassau sustained a loss of 2 men killed and 16 wounded. In Oct. 1813, being then in the Tremendous, Mr. Chapman served on shore with the batteries at the reduction of Trieste; and from 12 Feb. to 9 April, 1814, while detached in united charge of the imperial armed vessel Fidèle and of two of the ship’s boats for the purpose of co-operating with the Austrian forces under Marshal Bellegarde, he was actively employed in preventing supplies from being thrown into Venice, Chioggia, and Malamocco, and, on 23 March, commanded and led the troop-boats which stormed and carried Fort Caranella, near the Po di Levante, on which occasion he took up a formidable position before Brondolo, and acquired for his conduct the thanks of the officer above mentioned and of Generals Marchal and Pulszky. Having passed his examination, 4 Dec. 1811, he was promoted, from the Malta 84, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Benj. Hallowell, to a Lieutenancy in the Orlando 36, Capt. John Clavell, 24 Oct. 1814. He was placed on half-pay, after serving for some time at the blockade of the Chesapeake, 16 Aug. 1815, and has not been since officially employed.
Lieut. Chapman’s name appears, as a supernumerary for passage, on the books of no fewer than 73 ships of war, owing to the circumstance of his having been appointed Master of 18 or 19 different prize-vessels. He married, 31 Oct. 1826, Eliza, third daughter of Thos. Hatton, Esq., a wine-merchant of Liverpool, and has issue six sons and three daughters.
CHAPMAN. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
Wellesley Pole Chapman entered the Navy 2 Dec. 1827; passed his examination 6 Nov. 1834; served for some time on the Mediterranean station as Mate of the Ganges 84, Capt. Barrington Reynolds; and, on that ship being paid off, was created a Lieutenant 6 June, 1842. He was appointed, on 25 of the same month. Additional of the Illustrious 72, flag-ship in North America and the West Indies of Sir Chas. Adam; joined 5 Oct. following, the Volage 26, Capt. Sir Wm. Dickson, Bart., employed on the same and Home stations; and, since 25 March, 1845, has been attached to the Vernon 50, bearing the flag on the south-east coast of America and in the East Indies of Rear-Admiral Sam. Hood Inglefield.
CHAPPELL. (Capt., 1838. f-p., 20; h-p., 23.)
Edward Chappell was born 10 Aug. 1792. This officer entered the Navy, in May, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Kingfisher 18, Capts. Rich. Wm. Cribb, Nathaniel Day Cochrane, Geo. Fras. Seymour, and Wm. Hepenstall, in which vessel he attained the rating of Midshipman 23 April, 1806, and continued to serve until April, 1807. In the course of 1805, independently of the capture, in the West Indies, of Les Deux Amis, of 6 guns and 40 men, of L’Elizabeth, of 14 guns and 102 men, and of a Spanish register-ship, he distinguished himself at the cutting-out, from under the fire of heavy batteries on the Spanish main, of the Isabella la Damos, of 4 guns and 57 men, and, in the open day, of a Spanish merchantman. After participating in the victory off St. Domingo, 6 Feb. 1806, the Kingfisher returned to England with the despatches, and was then sent to Basque Roads, where she towed out the Pallas at the close of her action with the Minerve, 14 May, 1806. She subsequently formed part of the force under Sir Thos. Louis at the capture, on 27 Sept. in the same year, of the French 44-gun frigate Le Président, and was next ordered to the Mediterranean. On becoming attached, in April, 1807, to the Favorite alias Goree 26, Capt. Wm. Standway Parkinson, Mr. Chappell assisted at the ensuing reduction of the Danish West India islands of St. Thomas and Sta. Croix; after which he joined in succession the
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1810, p. 674.
