A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Suckling, Robert William
SUCKLING. (Lieutenant, 1838.)
Robert William Suckling entered the Navy, 6 Feb. 1823; passed his examination in 1829; and obtained his commission 28 June, 1838. His appointments have since been – 7 July, 1838, as Additional-Lieutenant, to the Princess Charlotte 104, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford in the Mediterranean – 4 Jan. 1839, to the Dido 18, Capt. Lewis Davies, on the same station – 25 Nov. 1841, to the Bittern 16, Capt. Hon. Byron C. F. P. Gary, at the Cape of Good Hope – 14 June, 1842, to the Fantome 16, Capt. Philip Geo. Haymes, of which vessel, stationed in South America, he became First- Lieutenant – 14 July, 1843, to the Alfred 50, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore John Brett Purvis on the coast of Brazil, whence he returned at the close of 1844 – and, 23 Sept. 1846, as First, to the Rattlesnake surveying-vessel, Capt. Owen Stanley, now in the East Indies.