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Richard Tiddeman

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Officer of the British Navy

Richard Tiddeman

 

Personal Details

Date of Birth
Place of Birth
Father's Name
Mother's Name
Date of Death7 October 1762

 

Naval Service Details

Midshipman

DateShipNotes

 

Lieutenant

DateShipNotes
1732

 

Commander

DateShipNotes

 

Captain

DateShipNotes
9 March 1745SuperbePromoted as flag captain to Peter WarrenB051/001
13 March 1745SuperbeSailed from Antigua in the Wset Indies001
12 June 1745SuperbeIn Commodore Peter Warren's fleet at the seige of Louisburg001
1747ElthamSailed for the East Indies under commodore H Powlett in the fleet of Rear-Admiral GriffinB051
1750HarwichReturned to England with rear-admiral BoscawenB051
February 1758GraftonOrder to the East Indies in company with the Sunderland as reinforcemnts for rear-admiral PocockB051
May 1759ElizabethTransfered on his arrival in the East IndiesB051
1760ElizabethAt the seige of pondicherry under rear-admiral Charles StevensB060
1761ElizabethDispatched to Mauritius as commodore of a division to support a landingB060
14 September 1761ElizabethArrived of the island Diago RaysB060
October 1761ElizabethJoined by Rear-Admiral Samuel Cornish with the rest of his squadronB060
29 July 1762ElizabethSailed for Manilla as commodore of a division in the fleet under Rear-Admiral Samuel CornishB051
September 1762ElizabethThe seige of Manilla began, supported by fire from the naval vesselsB060
6 October 1762ElizabethManilla surrenderedB051
7 October 1762ElizabethHis barge overturned at Manilla and he was drownedB051

 

Other Details

 

Actions & Battles

DateSource
10 September 1759Battle of Pondicherry

 

Notes

Commodore Tiddemans division sent to Mauritius consisted of America, Falmouth, Chatham, Sleaford, and Alderney.

 

 

 

Sources

001Web page on Warren's fleet
B051Biographia NavalisJohn Charnock
B060Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain from 1727 - 1783Robert Beaston

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