Fleetwood Pellew

Admiral Sir Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew CB KCH was an officer of the Royal Navy who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He was the son of Captain Edward Pellew, who later became an admiral and first Viscount Exmouth. The elder Pellew used his influence within the navy to secure positions for his two eldest sons in the service. Fleetwood received his first command when he was just 17, but seemed to justify it with his gallantry and daring, which won him the admiration of his father. His career was noted for a brief incident in Nagasaki harbour while in command of the frigate HMS160Phaeton, an incident that was to have important implications for AngloJapanese relations. Fleetwoods doting father helped him rise through the ranks, but a tendency towards excessive harshness in command proved his downfall. He provoked a mutiny in 1814 and though he returned to sea in 1818, he received no further active commands after 1822 for thirty years. He briefly returned

Fleetwood Pellew was born onDecember 1789, the second son and fourth child of Captain Edward Pellew and his wife Susannah Frowde. He was educated briefly at Blundells School, Tiverton. His father was promoted through the ranks of the service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and used his influence to find positions at sea for Fleetwood and his elder bother Pownoll. Fleetwood joined his fathers ship, the 74gun HMS Impetueux as a midshipman in March 1799, and followed him to HMS160Tonnant and then to HMS160Culloden. The two sailed for the East Indies aboard the Culloden, where onSeptember 1804 Sir Edward made Fleetwood a lieutenant aboard HMS160Sceptre.

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