A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Turner, Michael
TURNER. (Lieutenant, 1828.)
Michael Turner entered the Navy in Sept. 1811. While serving as Midshipman on board the Hebrus of 42 guns and 284 men, Capt. Edm. Palmer, he assisted, 27 March, 1814, at the capture, under Cape La Hogue, after a close and obstinate engagement of two hours and a quarter, in which the British had 13 men killed and 25 wounded, and the enemy 40 killed and 73 wounded, of the French frigate L’Etoile of 44 guns and 315 men. He was also present in the operations against Washington and Baltimore; at the blockade of an American frigate of superior force in Hampton Roads; at the attack upon Point Petre and the surrender of St. Mary’s; in an action with five American gun-boats near Charleston; at the forcing of the passage of the Gironde and the destruction of the batteries by which it was defended; and at the battle of Algiers. He passed his examination in 1818; was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 18 Sept. 1828; and was lastly, from 15 April, 1842, until 1847, employed as Admiralty Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel.