A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Teed, Richard Manston
TEED. (Retired Commander, 1848. f-p., 19; h-p., 27.)
Richard Manston Teed entered the Navy, 2 March, 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Defiance 74, Capt. Rich. Retalick, bearing the flag in the Baltic of Sir Thos. Graves, with whom he continued to serve in the North Sea in the Polyphemus 64 and, as Midshipman, in the Monarch 74, until May, 1802. He next, in March, 1803, joined the Plantagenet 74, Capt. Graham Eden Hamond, on the Channel station, where he was again, from the following Oct. until Dec. 1805, employed under Sir Thos. Graves in the Foudroyant 80, and, from the latter date until Jan. 1808, in the Penelope 36, Capts. Wm. Robt. Broughton and John Dick. On 12 July, 1809, at which period he had been for 18 months serving in the Baltic in the Centaur 74 and Victory 100, flag-ships of Sir Sam. Hood and Sir Jas. Saumarez, he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Implacable 74, Capt. Thos. Byam Martin. He was confirmed to that ship 18 Sept. following, and was subsequently appointed – 18 Jan. 1810, to the Caesar 80, Capts. Chas. Richardson and Wm. Granger, on the coast of Portugal – 13 May, 1811, and 13 Oct. 1813, to the Rapid 10, Capt. Wm. Mather, and Eridanus 36, Capts. Henry Prescott and Wm. Paterson, in the Channel and on the coast of Africa – 8 Oct. 1816, after a year of half-pay, to the Malta 84, Capt. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, lying at Plymouth – 5 June, 1818 (he had left the Malta in March, 1817), to the Ramillies 74, Capt. Thos. Boys, at the same port – 17 Nov. and 7 Dec. ensuing, to the Tonnant 80 and Windsor Castle 74, Capts. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild and Chas. Dashwood, with whom he served for about three years at Cork and again at Plymouth – and, 23 Aug. 1823, to the Victor 18, Capts. Thos. Prickett and Geo. Woolcombe, fitting for the coast of Africa, whence he returned to England early in 1825. He was placed upon the list of Retired Commanders 9 Nov. 1848.