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DUNN—DUNNETT—DUNSTAN.
hood 12 Aug. 1835, and was nominated a K.C.H. 1 Jan. 1837. He married, 13 April, 1838, Louisa Henrietta, daughter of the late Gerard Montagu, Esq. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
DUNN. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Montagu Buccleugh Dunn is son of Commander N. J. C. Dunn, R.N.
This officer passed his examination 18 Nov. 1839, and was afterwards employed, as Mate, in the Victor 16, Capt. Wm. Dawson, Excellent gunnery-ship, Capt Sir Thos. Hastings, and Espiègle 12, Capt. Thos. Pickering Thompson, on the North America and West India, Home, and East India stations. When in the Victor he appears to have had charge of a watch; and, in the Excellent, he passed his examination with some distinction. His commission bears date 27 March, 1846, since which period he has been borne, as Additional-Lieutenant, on the books of the Agincourt 72, flag-ship in the East Indies of Sir Thos. John Cochrane.
DUNN. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 36; h-p., 13.)
Nicholas James Cuthbert Dunn was born 18 March, 1785.
This officer entered the Navy, 2 July, 1798, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the Tigre 74, commanded by his patron Sir Wm. Sidney Smith. After participating in the defence of St. Jean d’Acre he was obliged to be sent to England, in the summer of 1799, for the cure of a severe wound he had accidentally received in the right leg. Returning to the Mediterranean, in May, 1800, on board the Dolphin, Capt. Jas. Dalrymple, he there joined the Dangereuse gun-vessel, Lieut.-Commander Robt. Tyte, and under that officer was engaged in covering the debarkation of the troops in Aboukir Bay, and throughout all the coast operations connected with the Egyptian campaign in 1801. Until the receipt of his first commission, 22 Jan. 1806, Mr. Dunn appears to have been afterwards attached to the Alexanbria, Capt. Alex. Wilson, Antelope 50, Capts. Sir W. S. Smith, Henry Bazely, Sir Home Popham, and Robt. Plampin, and Pompée 74, bearing the flag of Sir W. S. Smith, while under whom, in the Antelope, he had been in frequent colUsion with the enemy’s flotilla between Flushing and Ostend. During the six years immediately consecutive on his promotion – the whole of which period he served on board the Topaze 36, Capts. Willoughby Thos. Lake, Anselm John Griffiths, Henry Hope, and Edw. Harvey – we find Mr. Dunn figuring in a variety of stirring scenes. Among other gallant affairs he assisted, near Corfu, in a very spirited action which terminated in the beating off by the Topaze of the two French 40-gun frigates Danaë and Flore, 12 March, 1809; and, on the night of 31 Oct. following, he commanded the ship’s launch, forming part of a large detachment of boats under Lieut. John Tailour, at the capture and destruction, after a fearful struggle, and a loss to the British of 15 men killed and 55 wounded, of the French armed store-ship Lamproie, of 16 guns and 116 men, bombards Victoire and Grondeur, and armed xebec Normande, with a convoy of seven merchantmen, defended by numerous strong batteries in the Bay of Rosas.[1] He was also on one occasion, 8 June, 1810, very severely injured by over-exertion during an attack on an enemy’s schooner near Cape Corso, in the island of Corsica. After an additional servitude of two years in the Tenedos 38, Capt. Hyde Parker, employed chiefly in blockading the different ports on the Coast of North America, he was ultimately advanced to his present rank, 9 March, 1814, and appointed to the Indian sloop-of-war, which he brought home and paid off in Oct. of the same year. As Inspecting-Commander of the Waterford district of Coast Guard, which post he held from 12 Dec. 1820, until July, 1832, Commander Dunn rendered such important service to the revenue as to cause a positive increase to the tobacco duties in that county of more than 30,000l. per annum. Being reappointed to the Coast Guard, 26 June, 1835, he served successively in the Ballycastle, Donaghadee, and Swords districts, until 17 July, 1838; and, during a year he was employed at Donaghadee, he again effected an augmentation in the imports on tobacco, as connected with the port of Belfast, of nearly ll,000l. His appointments have since been – 18 March, 1842, to the Ocean 80, guard-ship at Sheerness; and, 28 March, 1843, and 13 June, 1845, to the Victory 100, and Royal Sovereign yacht, for the purpose of superintending the Packet Establishments at Weymouth and Hobb’s Point – on the latter of which stations he is at present employed.
Commander Dunn is married and has issue a son, Lieut. M. B. Dunn, R.N.
DUNNETT. (Lieut., 1821. f-p., 15; h-p., 23.)
William Henry Dunnett entered the Navy, 23 April, 1809, as Midshipman, on board the Aggressor 12, Lieut.-Commanders John Watson and Henry Jewry, in which vessel he continued, on the North Sea station, until Jan. 1815. He then served for upwards of five years, as Master’s Mate, Acting-Lieutenant, and Admiralty-Midshipman – on the Home, West India, and Mediterranean stations – in the Larne 20, Capts. Abraham Lowe and Sir John Gordon Sinclair, Florida 20, Capts. Wm. Elliot and Chas. Sibthorpe John Hawtayne, Scamander 36, Capt. Wm. Elliot, Wasp 18, Capt. Thos. Wren Carter, and Rochfort 80, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. Fras. Fremantle. He was afterwards (as Admiralty-Midshipman of the Severn 40, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch) appointed to the Coast Blockade in June, 1820. For his gallant conduct while in that service, in preventing the landing, 22 Dec. 1821, of a cargo of contraband goods, near Romney, in Kent, where he received several buck-shot wounds in the left thigh, Mr. Dunnett was rewarded with a commission dated 27 of the same month. He had passed his examination 6 Sept. 1815. From 24 May, 1827, until 3 Jan. 1829, we again find him employed in the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Ramillies 74, Capt. Hugh Pigot. He has since, however, been on half-pay.
Lieut. Dunnett, who during his attachment to the Aggressor appears to have been foremost on every occasion of difficulty and danger, particularly signalized himself by his intrepid conduct in saving, although in a heavy gale and high sea, the lives of 12 persons on board the Nancy brig, then in a sinking state, on the Wells bank. He afterwards, on 22 Dec. 1816, plunged from the main-chains of the Scamander, and, at the imminent hazard of his own life, rescued two men who had fallen overboard, and who but for him would inevitably have perished. He married 28 Feb. 1838. Agent – J. Hinxman.
DUNSTAN. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
Octavius Dunstan, born 26 Oct. 1792, is brother of the late Mr. Dunstan, Master of H.M.S. Jason 32, who was lost while commanding a tender in a violent hurricane off Tortola in 1806.
This officer entered the Navy, 24 April, 1806, as a Supernumerary, on board the Dolphin 44, Capt. Dan. Tandy, bearing the flag of Sir Alex. Cochrane in the West Indies; where he afterwards became attached to the Northumberland 74, flag-ship of the same officer, and, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, to the Jason 32, and Ethalion 38, both commanded by Capt. Thos. John Cochrane. When in the Jason, Mr. Dunstan assisted at the capture, 27 Jan. 1807, of La Favorite French national ship, mounting 16 long sixes and 13 4-pounder carronades, vith a complement of 150 men; and for three months he commanded a schooner as a tender. He took part, on his removal to the Ethalion, in a slight encounter with the French 40-gun frigate Amphitrite, in the latter part of 1808; had charge of a boat during the operations against Martinique in Feb. 1809; and co-operated in the ensuing re-
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1809, p. 1907.
