A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Tulloh, William Izod
TULLOH. (Retired Commander, 1846. f-p., 12; h-p., 34.)
William Izod Tulloh is brother of Retired Commander Chas. Tulloh, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 23 April, 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board La Venture 14, Lieut.-Commanders Birdwood and Jump, lying at Appledore; and from June, 1802, until received, in Nov. 1807, on board the Salvador del Mundo, Capt. Wolley, stationed at Plymouth, was employed, a great part of the time as Midshipman, in the Galatea 32 and Aigle 36, both commanded by Capt. Geo. Wolfe. In the Galatea he was engaged in conveying troops from Guernsey to Holland and to different parts of England. While serving in the Aigle he escorted convoy home from Oporto; assisted at the capture of L’Alert privateer of 16 guns and 90 men, and at the destruction, 12 July, 1804, on the coast of France, of La Charente of 20 and La Joie of 8 guns; united in Aug. 1805 in Admiral Hon. Wm. Cornwallis’ pursuit of the French fleet into Brest and took part in the ensuing Sept. in an action off Vigo, in which the Aigle, after an hour’s cannonade, captured one and defeated the rest of a flotilla of nine gun-boats by whom she had been attacked. He was present too, in the early part of 1806, at the capture, with some loss to the British, of two out of a squadron of gun-boats, each armed with a long 4-pounder and a 12-pounder cohorn, which had come through the Passage du Raz. Towards the close of the same year he succeeded, in command of a boat, in driving on shore, under a heavy fire of musketry, an enemy’s supply and despatch boat, armed with a cohorn. On 16 Oct. 1808, at which period he had been for 10 months serving on the coast of North America in the Swiftsure 74, flag-ship of Sir John Borlase Warren, he was made Lieutenant into the Horatio 38, Capt. Geo. Scott, on the same station; where he was appointed, in the ensuing Nov. and in Aug. 1810, First of the Halifax 18, Capts. Lord Jas. Townshend, John Thompson, and Alex. Fraser, and Fantome 20, Capt. John Lawrence. In the latter vessel, which he left in Sept. 1811, he also cruized in the North Sea. His last appointments were, 25 Oct. 1813 and 7 Sept. 1814, to the Montagu 74, Capt. Peter Heywood, and, as First-Lieutenant, to the Banterer 14, Capt. Chas. Warde, on the North Sea and Irish stations. He commanded the boats of the Montagu for three months between Walcheren and South Beveland, with nothing during that period to sleep on but a few signal-flags. The hardships he then underwent had the effect, after he had joined the Banterer, of producing paralysis, of depriving him of the use of his limbs, and of greatly impairing the sight of his left eye. He invalided in consequence 28 Nov. 1814. He accepted the rank of Retired Commander 27 Jan. 1846.
Commander Tulloh married, first, in 1812, Mary, daughter of the Rev. F. Reynett, of Waterford; and secondly, 12 July, 1830, Elizabeth, daughter of Wm. Morris, Esq., J. P., of Harbour View, co. Waterford, by whom he has issue one daughter. By his former wife he had issue seven children.