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 Death Announcements 1845-1854
| Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| | Surname | Hemmans | | | First names | Samuel Hood | | | Rank / occupation | Admiralty Agent |  | Unit | P & O steamer Singapore | | | Death date | 22 May 1854 | | | Place of death | Ceylon  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Date | Aug 1854 | | | Page number | 201 | | | Detail | At Ponte de Galle, aged 61, Lieut. Samuel Hood Hemmans, R.N. Admiralty agent on board the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Singapore. He entered the navy in 1806 as first-class volunteer of the Boreas, which was lost off Guernsey in Dec. 1817. He was afterwards in the Resolution and Pompée 74's, Victory 100, Volage 22, and Resistance 36, and made Lieut. in the Undaunted 38, Feb. 5, 1815. That frigate conveyed Napoleon from Frejus to Elba, and assisted at the capture of the Trimiti island. He afterwards served in several ships until 1830; and was for some time Emigration Agent at Greenock. |
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