A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Tucker, John Jervis
TUCKER. (Captain, 1838. f-p., 18; h-p., 14.)
John Jervis Tucker is second son of the late Benj. Tucker, Esq., of Trematon Castle, Cornwall.
This officer entered the Navy, 19 Aug. 1815, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the St. George 98, Capt. Nash, bearing the flag of Sir John Thos. Duckworth at Plymouth, where he removed in the following month to the Superb 74, Capt. Chas. Ekins. He served next, from March, 1816, until Aug. 1817, in the Pactolus 38, Capt. Wm. Hugh Dobbie, on the coast of North America; he then joined in succession, for a brief period, the Prince Regent and Royal George yachts, Capts. Sir Edw. Hamilton and Hon. Chas. Paget; and he was afterwards, between Oct. 1817 and the date of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant 12 Sept. 1822, employed in the Favorite 26, Capt. Hercules Robinson, Glasgow 50, Capts. Hon. Anthony Maitland and Bentinck Cavendish Doyle, Camelion 10, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye, and Apollo and Royal George yachts, both commanded by his former Captain, Paget. The Favorite was stationed for three years at St. Helena, in South America, and at Newfoundland; the Glasgow, for eight months, in the Mediterranean and at Portsmouth; and the Camelion and Apollo also at Portsmouth. In the Royal George Mr. Tucker accompanied George IV. on his visit to Scotland. Being appointed, 17 March, 1823, to the Thetis 46, Capt. Sir John Phillimore, he sailed in the ensuing Oct. for Mexico with the Commissioners deputed to inquire into the political state of that country. In May, 1824, having returned to Plymouth with specie from the Havana, the Thetis was ordered to Cape Coast Castle with supplies and a detachment of the Royal African corps. On her arrival her officers and crew became involved in the war raging with the Ashantees, whom, on 11 July in the same year, they assisted in totally routing. Continuing in the Thetis until paid off in Nov. 1826, Mr. Tucker was present in her in a variety of experimental cruizes, and was engaged in escorting different diplomatic personages to Naples, Constantinople, and South America. He attained the rank of Commander 15 June, 1827; served in that capacity in the Semiramis 24, flagship of Hon. Sir C. Paget at Cork, from 5 July, 1828, until 1831; was advanced to his present rank 28 June, 1838; and from 26 May, 1841, until paid off in 1845, was employed in the Dublin 50, as Flag-Captain to Rear-Admiral Rich. Thomas, in the Pacific.
Capt. Tucker married, 16 Oct. 1830, Sabine Ann, second daughter of the late Vice-Admiral Jas. Young, of Barton End, co. Gloucester, by whom he has issue. Agent – J. Chippendale.