manner, although he had received four severe wounds during the action, as long as there was the least chance of preserving her from the enemy; and did adjudge the said Lieutenant Tullidge, his surviving officers, and ship’s company, to be most honorably acquitted.”
On the 1st of Aug. following, Lieutenant Tullidge was promoted to the rank of commander; and on the 17th[errata 1] Oct. 1813, appointed to the Clinker sloop of war. He obtained a pension of 150l. per annum, April 4th, 1816.
SAMUEL BROWN, Esq.
[Commander.]
Obtained the rank of lieutenant in Oct. 1801; and served as third of the Phoenix frigate. Captain Thomas Baker, at the capture of la Didon, French national ship, of very superior force, Aug. 10th, 1805[1]. He was subsequently appointed to the Ulysses 44, Captain the Hon. Warwick Lake ; and on the 1st of Aug. 1811, promoted to the rank of commander[2].
This officer is the inventor and manufacturer of the twisted iron cables, respecting which the following observations appeared in the Philosophical Magazine for October, 1814:
“The great importance of safe cables for ships is known to every one in the slightest degree acquainted with maritime affairs. In circumstances of danger, the preservation of the cargo is often a matter of great magnitude; but that of the lives of the seamen is infinitely greater. Like almost every thing connected with navigation, the means resorted to have, till lately, been confined to improvements in the manufacture of cordage, and some of these have been great; but, either from prejudice or wont of consideration, a change of the material for one of greater strength, and less liable to be ruptured by strain, or worn away by friction, seems never to have been even thought of.
“The first, we believe, who made any attempt to introduce a stronger and better material for anchor cables and moorings, was Captain Samuel Brown, of the royal navy. He had the merit of at once adopting the best that could possibly be thought of, both in point of strength and oeconomy.- ↑ See Vol. I. Part II. p. 830.
- ↑ Erratum in James’s Naval History, 2d edit. vol. IV. p. 248, line 8; for Samuel Brown read Joseph Oliver; and dele the remainder of the paragraph after Phoenix.
Errata:
- ↑ Correction: 17th should be amended to 7th
