Monday, December 8

Mr. Midshipman Geo. Tupman

TUPMAN.
Acasta Midshipman under Capt. Wood, post 1802.

George Tupman was born 16 Aug. 1785, and died 22 April, 1847.

This officer entered the Navy, 8 Aug. 1795, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Vengeance 74, Capts. John Rodney and Geo. Burlton, stationed in the Channel. In April, 1796, he joined, as a Supernumerary, the Royal William, Capt. Fras. Pickmore, lying at Portsmouth ; and from Jan. 1797 until April, 1802, he was employed, at the Cape of Good Hope, on the coast of Ireland, and in the Mediterranean and Channel, a great part of the time as Midshipman, in the Saldanha 36, Capt. Geo. Burlton, Legere sloop, Capt. Joshua Rowley Watson, Haerlem 64 and Africaine 38, Capts. G. Burlton and Jas. Stevenson, and Acasta 40, Capt. Jas. Athol Wood. He then became Master's Mate of the Galatea 32, Capt. Henry Heathcote; of which frigate, stationed on the Irish coast and in the West Indies, he was confirmed a Lieutenant, after having acted for some time as such, 19 March, 1805.

Source: A NAVAL BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY: COMPRISING THE LIFE AND SERVICES OF EVERY LIVING OFFICER IN HER MAJESTY'S NAVY, FROM THE RANK OF ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET TO THAT OF LIEUTENANT, INCLUSIVE. Compiled from Authentic and Family Documents. BY WILLIAM E. O'BYRNE, ESQ.
LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, PUBLISHER TO THE ADMIRALTY. 1849.

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