A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Franklyn, George
FRANKLYN. (Lieutenant, 1807.)
George Franklyn entered the Navy, in the autumn of 1798, as A.B., on board the Eling schooner, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Peake, on the Home station; became Midshipman, in 1801, of the London 98, Capts. Robt. Waller Otway and Geo. Murray, attached to the fleet in the Baltic; and after serving for some time with Capt. Otway in the Edgar 74, and again with Lieut. Peake in the Escort gun-brig, joined the Lively 33, Capts. Graham Eden Hamond and Geo. M‘Kinley. On 5 Oct. 1804 the latter vessel assisted at the capture of three Spanish frigates laden with treasure, and the destruction of a fourth, off Cape St. Mary; and, on 29 May, 1805, she sustained a very spirited skirmish with a Spanish 74. Mr. Franklyn, who obtained a Lieutenancy, 7 Nov. 1807, in the Royalist 18, Capt. John Maxwell, was afterwards employed on the North Sea, Mediterranean, and American stations, in the Victorious 74, Capts. G. E. Hamond and Sir John Talbot – under the latter of whom, if we mistake not, he assisted at the capture of the French 74-gun ship Rivoli. He went on half-pay in 1814; but has been in command, since 5 July, 1836, of a station in the Coast Guard.
He married, 22 Jan. 1820, Barbara, daughter of the late John Duthman, Esq. Agent – J. Hinxman.