A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bunn, Thomas
BUNN. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 31.)
Thomas Bunn entered the Navy, 23 Oct. 1805, as A.B., on board the Pegasus 28, Capt. John Pengelly, stationed in the North Sea; removed, as Midshipman, in July, 1806, to the Shannon 38, Capt. Philip Bowes Vere Broke, lying at Sheerness; and, on subsequently joining the Ferreter 12, Lieut.Commander Henry Weir, was captured, on the night of 31 March, 1807, by seven Dutch gun-boats, after a sanguinary resistance, and carried into the river Ems. Soon afterwards, on regaining his liberty, he became attached to the Namur 74, Capt. Lawrence Wm. Halsted, and from July in the same year, 1807, until June, 1815, he served with the late Sir Geo. Burlton, in the Resolution 74, Rodney 74, Ville de Paris 110, Boyne 98, and also in the Cornwallis 74, in which ship that officer hoisted his flag as Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies. While in the Resolution Mr. Bunn attended the expedition to Copenhagen, in Aug. and Sept. 1807, and was with the force under Lord Gambier at the destruction of the French shipping in Aix Roads, in April, 1809. In the Boyne he took part, 5 Nov. 1813, and 13 Feb. 1814, in Sir Edw. Pellew’s skirmishes with the Toulon fleet. Obtaining a commission 4 Feb. 1815, he next, in 1815-16, served as temporary Lieutenant of the Owen Glendower 36, Capt. Brian Hodgson. He has since been on half-pay. Agent – J. Woodhead.