A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bromley, Samuel
BROMLEY. (Lieut., 1804. f-p., 17; h-p., 36.)
Samuel Bromley died 13 Nov. 1845.
This officer entered the Navy, in Dec. 1792, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Latona 38, Capt. Edw. Thornbrough, attached to the fleet in the Channel, where, in Nov. 1793, he was present in a very gallant skirmish with several French line-of-battle and other ships; and, on 1 June, 1794, in Lord Howe’s celebrated action. He next served with the same officer, from July in the latter year until Sept. 1799 – a great part of the time as Midshipman – in the Robust 74, during which period he attended the unfortunate expedition to Quiberon in support of the French Royalists in 1795; and, on 12 Oct. 1798, was with the force under Sir John Borlase Warren at the defeat of Commodore Bompart’s squadron, when the Hoche 74 struck to the Robust, after a very severe action, in which the latter ship sustained a loss of 10 men killed and 40 wounded. Mr. Bromley, who next joined the Royal George 100, hearing the flag of Lord Bridport, was appointed, 27 Oct. 1799, Acting-Lieutenant of the Dragon 74, Capt. Geo. Campbell. He removed, in April, 1800, to the Pegasus 28, Capt. John Pengelly, under whom he accompanied, in the same capacity, the expedition to Egypt in 1801. The Pegasus was paid off in Feb. 1802, but Mr. Bromley was not confirmed in the rank of Lieutenant until after a subsequent attachment of 18 months to the Sceptre 74, Capt. Sir Archibald Collingwood Dickson, employed in the Channel and East Indies, 6 Sept. 1804. His next appointments were – in the course of 1805, to the Galgo 16, Capt. Michael Dodd, Hermes sloop, Capt. Joseph Westbeach, Kent 74, fitting at Chatham for the flag of Sir Edw. Thornbrough, and Majestic 74, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Thos. Macnamara Russell in the North Sea, where he remained for nearly two years – in July, 1807, to a command in the Aldeburgh district of Sea Fencibles – 9 March, 1810, to the Avenger sloop, Capt. Thos. White, on the Halifax station, whence he immediately afterwards invalided – and, 3 Feb. 1812, to the Briseis 10, Capt. John Ross, in the Baltic. He was placed on half-pay in May of the same year, and was not afterwards employed. Lieut. Bromley had been wounded on several occasions.