A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Rundle, Joseph Sparkhall
RUNDLE. (Lieutenant, 1839.)
Joseph Sparkhall Rundle was born 5 Aug. 1815 in co. Norfolk.
This officer entered the Navy 21 Oct. 1 829; passed his examination 12 Oct. 1836, while serving on board the Fairy 10, Capt. Wm. Hewett; and for his gallant conduct as Mate of the Volage 26, Capt. Henry Smith, at the capture of Aden (on which occasion he had the honour of planting the first British flag, and aided in taking possession of the island of Seerah), was strongly recommended by his Captain, and was promoted to the rank ot Lieutenant 1 May, 1839. Continuing in the Volage until the return of that ship with Rear-Admiral Elliot to England in 1841, he commanded her pinnace in an attack upon some Chinese war-junks in Cowloon Bay 4 Sept. 1839, and assisted in another made upon a fleet of them off Chuenpee 4 Nov. following. His next appointment was, 28 July, 1841, to the Monarch 84, Capt. Sam. Chambers, on the Mediterranean station, whence, in March, 1843, he invalided from the effects of fever generated at Xanthus while employed in embarking the valuable collection of marbles made by Mr. Fellowes, now in the British Museum. Since 19 Oct. 1843 he has been serving, again in the East Indies, as Second and First Lieutenant in the Fox 42, Commodore Sir Henry Martin Blackwood.