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London, England, 1853-09-03 00:00:00

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board the Kingfisher, 18, Captains Richard Wm. Cribb,
William Ilepenstall, in which vessel he attained the
of the capture, in West Indies, of Les
Deux Amis, of 6 guns and 40 men, of L'Elizabeth, of 14
guns and 102 men, and of a Spanish register ship, he
distinguished himself at the cutting-out, from under the
fire of heavy batteries on the Spanish main, of the Isa-
bella la Demos, of 4 guns and of 57 men, and, in the
of en day, of a Spanish merchantman. After partici-
pating in the victory off St. Domingo, February 6, 1806'
the Kingfisher returned to England with the dispatches,
and was then sent to Basque Roads, where she towed
out the Pallas at the close of her action with the Mi-
nerve, May 14, 1806. She subsequently formed part
of the force under Sir Thomas Louis at the capture,
September 27, in the same year, of the French 44-gun ,1
frigate Le Pr4sident, and was next ordered to the Medi-
terranean. On becoming attached, in April, 1807, to
the Favourite, alias Goree, 26, Capt. William Standway
Parkinson, Mr. Chappell assisted at the ensuing reduc-
tion of the Danish West India Islands of St. Thomas
and St. Croix ; after which he joined in succession the
Ulysses, 44, Intrepid, 64, and Captain, 74, all com-
manded by Capt. Christ. John Williams Nesham, under
whom, in the Intrepid, he served on shore with a party
of seamen at the capture of Martinique, in February,
1809, and was present when that ship was severely cut
up in an engagement with the French frigates Hen-
riade and Felicite, under the guns of Fort Matilda,
Guadeloupe, April 15 following. In December, 1809,
he removed to the Tonnant, 80, Captain Hassard
Stackpoole, and sailed for the port of Cadiz, where, i
on being appointed to the command of a gun-boat,
be witnessed the destruction of a Spanish prison-
ship, co-operated in the defence of Fort Matagordo,
lost nearly the whole of his crew in killed and
wounded, was himself severely injured, and obtained
for his services an acting lieutenancy in the Um&
raire, 98, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Francis Pickmore,
by whom he appears to have been soon after detached
to assist in navigating the Pernando Septimo, of 120
guns, to Port Mahon. Having been officially promoted
in the Minorca, 18, Captain Ralph Randolp Worine-
ley, April 18, 1811, and being for some time success-
fully employed in cruising between Tunis and Sicily,
Lieut. Chappell returned to England in tle Implacable,
74, Captain Joshua Rowley Watson, and was paid off
in November, 1812. We afterwards find him appointed
-December 3, 1812, to the Rosamond, 20, Captains
Donald, Campbell, and Edward Stopford, in which he
visited the shores of Newfoundland, Labrador, and Hud-
son's Bay--January 9, 1815, to the Beaver, 10, Captain
Edward O'Brien Drury, lying at Sheerness-and, Jan.
17, 1815, as senior, to the Leven, 20, Captain Buckland
Stirling Bluett, which vessel, after being employed dur-
ing the war of 100 days in supplying arms to the Royalists
in La Vendee, was placed out of commission in Novem-
ber, 1815. From February 8, 1819, until advanced,
in acknowledgment of his effective services, to the
rank of commander, April 19, 1826, Mr. Chappell was
next engaged on the Coast Blockade as supernumerary
lieutenant of the Severn, Ramillies, and Hyperion, Cap-
tains William M'Culloch and William James Mingaye.
lie had, during that period, been strongly recommended
by the grand jury of Sussex, and highly complimented
by the judge. fur his exertions in detecting and convicting
a gang of smugglers at Bexhill ; and had also, in 1822,
received the thanks of the East India directors, accozn-
panied by a piece of plate, valued at 100 guineas, for
going off in a boat and rescuing the passengers and crew
of the Thames, Indianian, when that ship was wrecked
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ford, whence he was subsequently removed to Liver-
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pool, and there, on the packet-service being transferred
to the surveillance of the Admiralty, placed in com-
mand, June 27, 1837, of the Redwing steamer, from
which he was posted, December 27, 1838. In 1840 we
find him, by order of the Board of Admiralty, circumna-
vigating Great Britain in the Archimedes steamer, for
the purpose of reporting on the properties of the screw-
propeller. At present he is on half-pay. Captain
Chappell has been frequently examined by committees of
the House of Commons on matters connected with
steam navigation ; and on one occasion he was employed
by the President of the Board of Trade to prepare the
rough draft of an act of Parliament for the regulation of
steam vessels. In December, 1840, he was appointed
marine superintendent, and in February, 1842, secretary
to the Royal Mail Steam-packet Company, in which
latter capacity he now officiates. We should not omit
stating that Captain Chappell, in 1817, published a nar-
rative of Voyage to Hudson's Bay,' &c. ; another, in
1838, of one to Newfoundland and the Coast of Labra-
dor ;' and in 1840 the results of his experiments in the
Archimedes."