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The Honourable Sir Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew (English)
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PELLEW, Kt., C.B., K.C.H. (English)
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Rear-Admiral of the Blue, 1846. f-p., 18; h-p., 30. (English)
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Lord Exmouth, originally Mr. Edward Pellew, was born at Dover 19 April, 1757. He entered the Navy in 1770 on board the Juno frigate. Capt. Stott; served in the Carleton schooner in the battle fougnt on Lake Chaplain 11 Oct. 1776; was present with General Burgoyne’s array at the convention of Saratoga 17 Oct. 1777; obtained, soon afterwards, his first commission; and for his gallant conduct as senior of the Apollo frigate, commanded by Capt. Philomen Pownoll, who was killed, in an action with a letter of marque of 32 guns, on the Flemish coast, was made Commander into the Hazard sloop. For services he performed on his removal to the Pelican, another sloop, particularly in driving on shore several privateers inside the Ile de Bas, he was advanced to Post-rank 31 May, 1782. He afterwards commanded the Artois 64, Winchelsea 32, Salisbury 50, Nymphe Of 40 guns and 240 men, Arethusa of 44 guns and 277 men, Indefatigable 46, Impétueux 74, and Tonnant 80. His valour in the Nymphe, in effecting the capture, 18 June, 1753, of the Cléopâtre of 40 guns and 320 men, procured Capt. Pellew the honour of knighthood. In the Arethusa he occasionally commanded a squadron of frigates, and either took, or assisted in taking, among other vessels, La Pomone of 44 guns and 341 men, Le Babet of 22 guns and 178 men, L’Engageante of 38 guns and 300 men, La Félicité, alias Volontaire, of 40 guns and about 300 men, L’Espion and Alert corvettes of 18 guns and 140 men each, and .. (English)
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Sir Israel Pellew was born at Dover 25 Aug. 1758, and entered the Navy in 1771, on board the Falcon sloop. After serving in the Albion and witnessing, in the Flora, the capture of the frigate Fox, he joined the Royal George 100, and in 1779 was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. In Jan. 1783, in command of the Resolution cutter, of 12 guns and 75 men, he took, after a chase of 14 hours and a smart action of about an hour and a quarter, the Flushinger Dutch privateer, pierced for 14 guns, mounting twelve 14-pounders, with a complement of 68 men. He was advanced to the rank of Commander 23 Nov. 1790; and on 25 June, 1793, having been a volunteer with his brother on board the Nymphe at the capture of La Cléopâtre, he was presented with a Post commission. He afterwards commanded, until the peace of Amiens, the Squirrel 20, and Amphion, Greyhound, and Cleopatra frigates; and was on board the Amphion when she blew up in Plymouth Sound 22 Sept. 1796. Being appointed, in 1804, to the Conqueror 74, he served in that ship at the battle of Trafalgar, and was employed, previously to the convention of Cintra, in blockading the Russian fleet in the Tagus. Prior to the action off Cape Trafalgar he had accompanied Lord Nelson to the West Indies and back, in quest of the combined squadrons. In July, 1810, at which period he had been for upwards of a year in superintendence of the ships afloat at Plymouth, he attained the ranlt of Rear-Admiral. ... (English)
