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mate share in the destruction of which fortress he was nominated a C.B. 18 Dec. following.[1] From 13 March, 1841, until 31 Dec. 1842, he afterwards officiated as Flag-Captain, in the Queen 110, and St. Vincent 120, to his father, then Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth. Since 14 Oct. 1846 he has been in command of the Thetis 36.
Capt. Codrington[2] is a Knight of the Russian, French, and Greek orders of the 4th class of St. Vladamir, the Legion of Honour, and Redeemer of Greece.
COFFIN. (Captain, 1841. f-p., 22; h-p., 20.)
Henry Edward Coffin entered the Navy, 1 Oct. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on borad the Puissant 74, Capt. John Irvine, guard-ship at Spithead; was successively transferred, in the course of the following year, to the Atlas and Colossus 74’s, Capts. Sam. Pym and Jas. Nicoll Morris, and Malta 84, Capt. Edw. Buller; and on joining, in Jan. 1807, the Tigre 80, Capt. Benj. Hallowell, attended the expedition to Egypt, and witnessed, as Midshipman, the destruction of the French line-of-battle ships Robuste and Lion, off Cape Cette. After a further servitude of three years on board the Bombay 74, Capt. Wm. Cuming, and Minorca 18, Capt. Ralph Randolph Wormeley, he returned, in April, 1813, to the Malta, then flag-ship of his former Captain, Hallowell, and was for some time very actively employed commanding a gun-boat in co-operation with the patriots on the south coast of Spain. On his arrival in England as Acting-Lieutenant of the Sphynx 10, Capt. Thos. Colby, Mr. Coffin was officially promoted by commission dated 20 July, 1814; after which he served, from June, 1815, to Dec. 1818, on board the Cossack 22, Capt. Hon. Robt. Rodney, Driver 16, Capt. Lord Algernon Percy, and Saracen 16, Capt. John Gore, on the Home and North American stations. His next appointments appear to have been, 11 Aug. 1824, and 1 March, 1826, to the Atholl 28, Capt. Jas. Arthur Murray, and Ganges 84, Capt. Sam. Hood Inglefield, . employed off the coast of Africa and at Rio de Janeiro, whence he returned home on the receipt of his second promotal commission, 19 Sept. 1829. He subsequently commanded the Trinculo 16, on the Lisbon station, from 26 Dec. 1836, until the spring of 1841; and on 23 Nov. following was promoted to his present rank. He has not since been afloat.
Capt. Coffin married, 10 Nov. 1829, Charlotte, youngest daughter of the late Wm. Curry, Esq., of Southampton.
COFFIN. (Captain, 1822. f-p., 18; h-p., 30.)
John Townsend Coffin is third son of the late Major-General John Coffin, an officer distinguished in the first American war, by Anne, daughter of Wm. Matthews, Esq., of St. John’s Island, South Carolina; and nephew of Sir Isaac Coffin, Bart., G.C.H., Admiral of the Red, who died 23 July, 1839.
This officer entered the Navy, 7 Nov. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Boston 32, Capt. John Erskine Douglas, on the Halifax station; served next, from 21 Aug. 1802, until Feb. 1805, as Midshipman, in the Narcissus 32, Capt. Ross Donnelly, under whom he assisted, off Sardinia, at the capture, 8 July, 1803, of the French corvette L’Alcion, of 16 guns and 96 men; joined, in Feb. 1805, the Blenheim 74, bearing the flag in the East Indies of Sir Thos. Troubridge; and for his conduct as Master’s Mate of the Harrier 18, Capt. Edw. Thos. Troubridge, at the capture, after a stiff action of an hour, of the Dutch 36-gun frigate Pallas, and armed ships Vittoria and Batavia, near Java, 26 July, 1806, was, on 13 Oct. following, appointed Acting-Lieutenant of the Macassar, Capt. Wm. Wilbraham.[3] In Oct. 1807 he was transferred, in a similar capacity, to the Duncan 38, Capt. Wm. Wells, but he does not appear to have been confirmed by the Admiralty until 11 April, 1808, when we find him appointed to the Samarang 18, Capt. Rich. Buck. Returning to England towards the close of the same year, in the St. Fiorenzo 36, Capt. John Bastard, Mr. Coffin, in Aug. 1809, was sent to join the Shark sloop, Capt. Grove, on the Jamaica station, whence, unable to withstand the effects of the climate, he speedily came home, and obtained an appointment, 16 Dec. 1809, to the Victorious 74, Capt. John Talbot. On 21 Feb. 1812, while cruizing in the Gulf of Venice, in company with the Weasel 18, the latter ship fell in with, and, at the close of a most gallant conflict of four hours and a half, in which she lost 27 men killed and 99 wounded, and the enemy 400 killed and wounded, took the French 74-gun ship Rivoli, whose consorts, three brigs and two gun-boats, were also defeated. Lieut. Coffin – who, with Lieut. Edw. Whyte, was intrusted with the charge of the prize, and by his exertions succeeded in getting her into port[4] – continued to serve on the Mediterranean station, in the Ocean 98, Capt. Robt. Plampin, and Rainbow 26,[5] Capts. Gawen Wm. Hamilton and John Cornish, until promoted, 1 July, 1814, to the command of the Shearwater sloop, at Sheerness, which he, however, only retained until the following Oct. His last appointment was, 12 Aug. 1819, to the Fly 18, employed successively, in the Leeward Islands, and, for the suppression of smuggling, off the coast of Ireland. Capt. Coffin, who had been on half-pay since his attainment of Post-rank, 26 Dec. 1822, accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846.
He married, 16 June, 1834, Sophy Wallace, daughter of Lochlan Donaldson, Esq.
COFFIN. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
William Chappell Coffin entered the Navy 15 April, 1824; passed his examination 6 Oct. 1830; and was serving as Mate on board the Avon steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander Chas. Jenkins, when he was promoted to the rank he now holds 23 Nov. 1841. His next appointments were – 16 Feb. 1842, to the Scylla 18, Capt. Robt. Sharpe, in which sloop he served on the North America and West India station, nearly the whole time as First-Lieutenant, until the close of 1845 – and 27 Aug. 1846, in the latter capacity, to the Recruit brig, Capt. Adolphus Slade, from which vessel, however, he was soon afterwards superseded.
Lieut. Coffin, on 14 March, 1842, was awarded a pension for wounds of 21l. 7s. 6d. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
COGHILL, Bart., formerly Cramer. (Rear-Admiral of the White, 1841. f-p., 15; h-p., 50.)
Sir Josiah Coghill Coghill, born in 1773, is youngest son of the late Sir John Coghill, Bart., by Mary, daughter of Dr. Josiah Hort, Archbishop of Tuam. He succeeded his brother, as third Baronet, 21 May, 1817, and assumed, in the following June, the surname of “Coghill,” in place of his patronymic “Cramer.”
This officer entered the Navy, in April, 1782, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Bristol 50, Capts. Hugh Campbell and Jas. Burney, with whom he served in the East Indies until discharged in April, 1786. In April, 1798, he re-embarked on board the Haerlem 64, armée en flûte, Capt. Geo. Burlton, in which ship, having been created an Acting-Lieutenant in Sept. 1798, he was officially promoted 24 March, 1800. After attending the subsequent expedition to Egypt, and cutting out, in command of the Haerlem’s boats, the Prima galley, from the mole of Genoa, he removed, 25 April, 1801, to the Africaine, Capt. Jas. Stevenson; and, on 7 May, 1802, was promoted, from the Dédaigneuse frigate, Capt. Thos. Geo. Shortland, to the command of the Rattlesnake sloop, in the East Indies; where, with
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1840, p. 2900.
- ↑ See Commander J. C. Coffin.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1807, p. 423.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1812, p. 852.
- ↑ In the boats of this vessel Mr. Coffin appears to have captured in the Bay of Ajaccio, two vessels, one having on board a Lieutenant and several men of the 2nd Batt. of French pioneers, the other laden with wheat. – Vide Gaz. 1814, p. 124.
