A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Turner, William Thackery
TURNER. (Lieutenant, 1843.)
William Thackery Turner died about the commencement of 1847, while serving on board the Eurydice.
This officer entered the Navy (from the Royal Naval College) 5 Nov. 1832; passed his examination 8 Dec. 1836; served on the North America and West India, Home, and East India stations, as Mate, in the Griffon brigantine, Lieut.-Commander John Gooch D’Urban, Camperdown 104, flag-ship of Sir Henry Digby, and Serpent 16, Capt. Wm. Nevill; obtained his commission 26 Jan. 1843; and was subsequently appointed – 3 May in the latter year, to the Thalia 42, Capt. Chas. Hope, in the Pacific – 22 Nov. 1845, to the Crocodile 26, bearing the flag of Sir Hugh Pigot at Cork – and 30 May, 1846, to the Eurydice 22, Capts. Geo. Elliot and Talavera Vernon Anson, fitting for the Cape of Good Hope, where he died.