A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Tullis, William
TULLIS. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 20; h-p., 22.)
William Tullis was born 29 Jan. 1789; and died in 1848. He was related to the present Capt. David Peat, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, in June, 1805, as Midshipman, on board the Centaur 74, Capt. Henry Whitby; in one of the boats of which ship he assisted in cutting out a privateer from under Cape Tiburon, St. Domingo. From Nov. 1805 until Oct, 1806 he served off Halifax in the Cleopatra 32, Capt. John Wight, and Leander 50, Capt. Rich. Raggett; he then joined the Royal William, Capt. Hon. Courtenay Boyle, lying at Spithead; and after he had been for a few months stationed in the North Sea and Baltic in the Indignant 12, Lieut.-Commander Geo. Broad, he was received, in Dec. 1807, on board the Guerrier 40, Capt. Alex. Skene, again in the West Indies; where, with the exception of a few months in 1812 (during which he returned to England in the Reindeer 18, Capt. Wm. Manners), he continued employed until Sept. 1815 in the Griffon and Thrush sloops, Polyphemus 64, flagship of Vice-Admiral Bartholomew Sam. Rowley, Sceptre 74, Capt. Robt. Honyman, Shark sloop, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Wm. Brown, and Forester sloop, Capt. Alex. Kennedy. In the Indignant he was present at the siege of Copenhagen in 1807; he acted for seven months as Master on board the Griffon; and, while officiating in a similar capacity in the Thrush, he served at the blockade and surrender of the city of St. Domingo in 1809, and was engaged in a boat in an attempt to cut out the French privateer Supérieure from under the Moro Castle, on which occasion the launch of the Polyphemus was sunk. He was Midshipman, Master’s Mate, and Acting-Lieutenant (order dated 16 Dec. 1811) of the Polyphemus from March, 1810, until May, 1812; and Acting-Lieutenant and Lieutenant (commission dated 7 June, 1814) of the Forester from 12 July, 1813, until he invalided 9 Sept. 1815. In the latter vessel he was engaged in carrying troops up the Mississippi during the attack upon New Orleans. He afterwards, with the permission of the Admiralty, made six voyages in a merchantman to Madras and Calcutta, out of the port of London; and from 8 Feb. 1837 until the period of his death he had charge of a station in the Coast Guard.
Lieut. Tullis married, 24 April, 1827, Eliza, daughter of the late Rev. Robt. Culbertson. Agents – Burnett and Holmes.