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</noinclude><section begin="Tremlett, Francisco Saugro"/>TKEMLETT. (Lieutenant, 1843.)
Francisco Saugro Tremlett is cousin of Vice-
Admiral Tremlett.
This officer entered the Navy 1 May, 1830;
passed his examination 2 May, 1836; served for
some time on the Mediterranean, Plymouth, and
South American stations, as Mate, in the Scokpion
10, Lieut.-Commander Chas. Gayton, Caledonia
120, flag-ship of Sir Graham Moore, and Growler
steam-vessel, Capt. Claude Henry Mason Buckle;
and on 26 Jan. 1843 was promoted to the rank of
Lieutenant. His appointments have since been —
27 May, 1843, as Additional, to the Alfred 50,
bearing the broad pendant of Commodore John
Brett Purvis on the coast of Brazil—13 Dec. following,
to the Frolic 16, Capt. Cospatrjck BaiUie
Hamilton, in the Pacific—and 29 May, 1845, 13 Nov.
1846, and 29 Jan. 1847, to the Agincourt 72, flagship
of Sir Thos. John Cochrane, Vestal 26, Capt.
Chas. Talbot, and, as First-Lieutenant, to the
Childers 12, Capt. John Chas. Pitman, all on the
East India station, ^where he continues employed.
On 8 July, 1846, having accompanied an expedition
imder Sir T. J. Cochrane against the Sultan of
Borneo, Mr. Tremlett, then in the Agincourt, assisted,
in command of the second division of smallarm
men, at the capture and destruction of the
enemy's forts and batteries on the river Brune.*
Agent—J. Hinxman.
TKEMLETT. (Betiked Commander, 1831.
F-p., 29 ; H-p., 38.)
George Neat Tremlett was born 5 Nov. 1769.
He is brother of Vice-Admiral Tremlett.
This ofacer entered the Navy, 26 Oct. 1780, as
Master's Servant, on board the Beaver 14, Capt.
Joseph Peyton, lying at Fixmouth. Removing, in
the following Dec, to the Medwat 60, Capts. Harry
Harmood and Alex. Edgar, he was present in that
ship in the action fought in 1781 between Rear-Admiral
Kempenfeldt a,nd the French Admiral De
Guichen. He continued in the Medwav until
April, 1783 ; during the next 1 1 years he was with intervals
employed, as Midshipman and Master's Mate,
in the Europa 50, Capts. Hon. Patrick Napier and
Hon. Michael De Courcy, Salisburv 50, Capt. Jas.
Bradby, Bombay Castle 74, Capt. Robt. Fanshawe,
Fortune 16, Capt. Fras. Cole, Arrogant 74, Capt.
John Harvey, Dictator 64, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral
Dalrymple, Vesuvius bomb, Capt. Lord Viscount
Garlics, Alcide 74, Capt. Sir Andrew Snape
Douglas, Sheerness 44 and Winchesteb 32, both
commanded by Lord Garlies, and Queen 98, flagship
of Sir Alan Gardner ; he was then, 1 Aug. 1794,
made Lieutenant into the Thalia 36, Capts. Rich.
Grindall and Lord Henry Paulet ; and he was subsequently
appointed— 19 Feb., 25 April, and 28 Oct.
1796, to the Namub 98, Capt. Jas. Hawkins Whitshed,
Druid 32, Capt. Edw. Codrington, and Penguin
of 16 guns (14 long 9-pounders and 2 18-pounder
carronades) and 124 men, Capt. John King Pulling
—20 June and 12 Nov. 1798, to the Foudroyant 80,
Capt. Sir Thos. Byard, and Formidable 98, Capt.
J. H. Whitshed—5 Feb. 1799, to the Ramillies 74,
Capt. R. Grindall—28 April, 1800 (eight months
after he had invalided from the Ramillies) to his
former ship, the Formidable, Capts. Edw. Thornbrough
and R. Grindall, with whom he served until
Sept. 1802—5 April and 22 June, 1803, as First-
Lieutenant, to the San Josef 110 and Eurtalus
36, Capts. Peter Spicer and Hon. Henry Blackwood
—2 March, 6 Nov., and 22 Dec. 1804, to the command
of the Lord Nelson (or Frederick) and
Betsv hired cutters, and Phosphorus fire-ship —
and, 10 Sept. 1805, to the charge, which he retained
until May, 1814, of a Signal station at Cromer in
Norfolk. In the Queen Mr. Tremlett (whose services
were always on the Home station) took part
in Lord Howe's actions, 29 May and 1 June, 1794.
He was present, in 1795, in the Thalia, at the capture
of the French 40-gun frigates La Gloire and La
Gentille, and in Lord Bridport's action with the
French fleet off' Tie de Groix : he gained the warmest
approbation of Capt. Pulling for his conduct in
the Penguin at the capture, 21 Aug. 1797, of the
French privateer V Oiseau, of 16 8 and 2 12-pounders,
and 119 men (taken after a running action of one
hour and 40 minutes, attended with a loss to the
enemy of 1 man killed and 5 wounded, but with no
casualty to the British), and her prize, the Express
armed brig, of Dartmouth, formerly the Appocrate
French privateer of 14 guns ;* and in the Foudrot-
ANT he witnessed the surrender, in Oct. 1798, of Le
Hoche 74 and other ships under Commodore Bompart,
destined for the invasion of Ireland. He was
placed on the Junior List of Retired Commanders 1
Dec. 1830 ; and on the Senior 24 June, 1831.
Commander Tremlett married, 24 Sept. 1816,
Mary, youngest daughter of the late Robt. Radclyfie,
Esq., of Foxdenton Hall, Lancashire, by
whom he has issue a daughter.
Vide Gaz. 1845, p. 3442.
TREMLETT. (Vice-Admikal of the White,
1847. F-P., 19; H-p., 40.)
William Henry Brown Tremlett, born 15 Nov.
1777, at Dartmouth, is son of the late Geo. Tremlett,
Esq., Master R.N. (who served as a Midshipman
during the reign of George H., and was on
board the Zephyr 14 when that sloop beat off' a
French 36-gun frigate after a battle of four hours),
by Mary, only child of Mr. Tuck, Solicitor, of
Langley Hall, near Chippenham, co. Wilts. He is
brother of the present Retired Commander Geo.
Neat Tremlett, B.N. ; and of Lieut. Rich. Stiles
Tremlett, R.N., who was killed in a duel with Lord
Camelford at Martinique.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1788, as A.B.,
on board the Salisbury 50, Capts. Erasmus Gower,
Wm. Domett, and Edw. Pellew; in which ship,
bearing the flags of Admirals Elliot and Milbanke
at Newfoundland, he served until Dec. 1792, the
chief part of the time in the capacity of Midshipman.
He next, in Feb. 1793, joined the Royal
Sovereign 100, flag-ship in the Channel of Rear-
Admirals Thos. Graves and Hon. Wm. Cornwallis
;
and on 21 Sept. 1795 he was made Lieutenant into
the Lion 64, commanded, among other officers, by
Capt. Manley Dixon. He was present in the Royal
Sovereign in Lord Howe's action, 1 June, 1794,
and in Cornwallis' celebrated retreat, 16 and 17
June, 1795. In Dec. 1796 (he was then in the Lion)
he so distinguished himself by his "humane and
manly exertions " in saving the crew of the Reunion
frigate, wrecked on a sandbank in the North
Sea, that he obtained the thanks of the court-martial
which assembled to try the officers and crew,
and was highly complimented by the president.
Admiral Savage, who publicly declared "that he
deserved to have a civic crown placed on his head,
and that he hoped the Board of Admiralty would
do him justice by immediately advancing him to
superior rank." On 15 July, 1798, Mr. Tremlett
took part, off" Carthagena, in a brilliant action
fought between the Lion and four Spanish frigates
of 42 guns each, which terminated in the surrender
of one of the latter, the Santa Dorotea. He had
been engaged, a few days previously, in a desperate
affair with an armed Greek otF Malaga ; where, by
the desertion of two boats, he and the remainder of
his party were left in the greatest jeopardy. Twenty
of them were either killed or wounded, 4 only
escaping, including Mr. Tremlett, whose hat was
shot through in seven places in the course of as
many minutes, and whose dirk had its handle
knocked off. Being appointed, 1 Sept. 1798, Senior
of the Santa Dorotea (she had been added to the
British Navy), Capt. Hugh Downman, he assisted
in that frigate at the capture, 28 Nov. following, of
the San Leon Spanish man-of-war brig of 16 guns
and 88 men, and was present in her when attacked
in entering Gibraltar Bay with convoy by 17 of the
enemy's gun-boats. In Dec. 1799, five months after
he had left the Santa Dorotea, he assumed command
of the Tigress gun-brig, in which vessel he
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