– 26 Feb. 1842, to the Vanguard 80, Capt. Sir David Dunn, on the Lisbon station, whence he returned home and was paid off in the summer of 1843 – 10 Jan. 1844, to the Resistance troop-ship, Capt. Chas. Geo. Edw. Patey – and 3 Jan. 1846, after a few months of half-pay, to the Calypso 20, Capt. Henry John Worth, now in the Pacific. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
M‘LEOD. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 13; h-p., 32.)
William M‘Leod entered the Navy, 18 June, 1802, as Third-cl. Boy, on board the Blenheim 74, Capts. Peter Turner Bover, Henry Matson, and Thos. Graves, on the Leeward Island station, where he removed, in March, 1804, to the Ulysses 44, Capt. Edwin Henry Chamberlayne. In Aug. 1806, after he had been for ten months attached to the Royal William, bearing the flag of Admiral Montagu at Spithead, he became Midshipman of the Pigmy 14, Lieut.-Commander Geo. Montagu Higginson, under whom it was his fate to be wrecked, off the Ile d’Oléron, and taken prisoner, 2 March, 1807. Being restored to liberty in Dec. 1809, he next, during several months of 1810, served in the West Indies on board the Neptune and Statira, flag-ships of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane. He was there, in April, 1811, nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Perlen 38, Capts. Norborne Thompson, Joseph Swabey Tetley, and John Allen; in which vessel, on proceeding to the Mediterranean, he took part, under Capt. Tetley, in a very gallant skirmish, which terminated in her repulse, 22 Nov. 1811, of a French ship-of-the-line and two frigates belonging to the Toulon fleet. Mr. M‘Leod, whose official promotion had taken place on 10 of the preceding Sept., was next, 26 Aug. 1812, appointed to the Snap 16, Capts. Geo. Rose Sartorius, Wm. Bateman Dashwood, and Geo. King. While with Capt. Dashwood he assisted in capturing, 1 Nov. 1813, Le Lion privateer of 16 guns and 69 men, after a close action of 10 minutes, fought off the coast of France. In Jan. 1815 he rejoined Capt. Sartorius on board the Slaney 20. He cruized in that vessel until the following Sept., and has since been on half-pay. Agent – J. Hinxman.
M‘MILLAN. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 20; h-p., 36.)
Allan M‘Millan entered the Navy, 25 Sept. 1791, as a Boy, on board the Bedford 74, Capt. Sir Andw. Snape Hamond, in which ship, with the exception of an interval between Nov. 1795 and Jan. 1797, he continued to serve, under Capts. Robt. Mann, Davidge Gould, Augustus Montgomery, and Sir Thos. Byard, on the Home and Mediterranean stations, until May, 1798 – latterly in the capacity of Midshipman. He was in consequence present in 1795 in Hotham’s partial actions, and in company with the Censeur 74, when that ship was taken by a French squadron under M. Richery. On finally leaving the Bedford, he joined the Foudroyant 80, bearing the successive flags of Lords Nelson and Keith, and commanded, among other Captains, by Sir Edw. Berry, under whom, while at the blockade of Malta, he assisted at the 'capture, 18 Feb. 1800, of Le Généreux 74 and Ville de Marseilles' armed store-ship, and, 31 March following, after a desperate conflict in which the Foudroyant (in company at the time with the Lion 64 and Penelope 36) sustained a loss of 8 men killed and 64 wounded, of Le Guillaume Tell, of 84 guns and 1000 men, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Decrès. Continuing in the same ship until the peace of Amiens, Mr. M‘Millan was afforded an opportunity of sharing in the operations in Egypt in 1801. Between Feb. 1803 and the date of his official promotion, 31 Oct. 1810, he served, occasionally as Acting-Lieutenant, in 13 different ships, under various distinguished officers, on the Home and Baltic stations – commanding during that period the Convulsion mortar-vessel, off Boulogne, for nearly 12 months in 1805-6, and accompanying, in the Skylark sloop, Capt. Jas. Boxer, the expedition to the Walcheren in 1809. His last appointments were – 12 Jan. 1811, for nine months, to the Scylla 16, Capt. Arthur Atchison, attached to the force in the Channel – and, 20 April, 1812, to the Calliope 10, Capt. John M‘Kerlie. In that vessel, which he left in Jan. 1814, Lieut. M‘Millan was actively employed off Flushing, Heligoland, and the German rivers.
M‘MURDO. (Commander, 1843. f-p., 17; h-p., 6.)
Archibald M‘Murdo, born 24 Sept. 1812, is son of Lieut.-Colonel M‘Murdo, who lost his eyesight, and in the end his life, from the effects of a wound received in action in the West Indies.
This offtcer entered the Navy, 6 Oct. 1824, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Pylades 18, Capts. Fras. Fead, Geo. Vernon Jackson, and John Leith, stationed in the West Indies, where he removed, in Sept. 1825, to the Bellette 18, Capt. Chas. Croker. After serving for nearly two years at home, as Midshipman of the Superb and Melville 74’s, both commanded by Capt. Henry Hill, and Britomart 10, Capt. Russell Henry Manners, he proceeded in 1828 to the Mediterranean in the Blonde 46, Capt. Edm. Lyons, under whom, in Oct. of that year, he co-operated in the reduction of Morea Castle, the last hold of the Turks in the Peloponnesus. He had been previously employed at the blockade of Navarin. The Blonde being put out of commission in June, 1831, Mr. M‘Murdo (who had passed his examination in the preceding Nov.) was appointed Mate, a few months afterwards, of the Alligator 28, Capt. Geo. Robt. Lambert, and ordered to the East Indies, whence he returned home and was paid off in Aug. 1835. For the services he had during that period performed in recovering the crew of a wrecked whaler from the natives of New Zealand, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 15 Feb. 1836. His succeeding appointments were – 23 May, 1836, to the Terror bomb, Capt. Geo. Back, whom he accompanied on a disastrous voyage of discovery to the northward of Charles Island, in Hudson’s Bay, returning to England in the autumn of 1837 – 2 Feb. 1838, to the Volage 28, Capt. Henry Smith, from which vessel, on her arrival in the East Indies, his health obliged him to invalid, 27 Oct. in the same year – and, 23 Aug. 1839, again, as First-Lieutenant, to the Terror, Capt. Fras. Rawdon Moira Crozier, fitting for an explorative mission to the Antarctic regions, where he remained until illness compelled him to return in Aug. 1842. He was advanced, in consequence, to his present rank, 4 Oct. 1843; and since 11 June, 1846, has been in command of the Contest 12, on the coast of Africa. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
M‘NAGHTEN. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
Alexander M‘Naghten passed his examination 6 Sept. 1837; and served as Mate, on the East India, Mediterranean, and Home stations, in the Blenheim 72, Capt. Sir Humphrey Fleming Senhouse, Formidable 84, Capts. Sir Chas. Sullivan and Geo. Fred, Rich (flag-ship for some time of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen), Waterwitch 10, Capt. Thos. Fras. Birch, and Superb 80, Capt. Armar Lowry Corry. He obtained his commission 1 Sept. 1845; and since 8 of the following Oct. has been serving in North America and the West Indies in the Alarm 26, Capts. Chas. Colville Frankland and Granville Gower Loch.
MACNAMARA, Kt. (Captain, 1833. f-p., 18; h-p., 21.)
Sir Burton Macnamara, born in 1794, is sixth son of the late Fras. Macnamara, Esq., of Doolen, co. Clare, by Jane, daughter of Geo. Stamer, Esq., of Camelly, in the same county; and brother of the present Wm. Nugent Macnamara, Esq., of Doolen, a Major of Militia, and M.P., since 1830, for co. Clare. He is a descendant of the ancient Admirals of Munster, whose office is said to have originated the name “Mac-na-mara,” or “Son of the Sea.”
This officer entered the Navy, 26 July, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Edgar 74, Capt. Jas. Macnamara; previously to accompanying whom, as
