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Michael de Courcy (3)

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Officer of the British Navy

Personal Details
Date of Birth	1811/05/08
Father	Nevinson de Courcy
Mother	Catherine Blennerhasset
Grandfather	The Hon Michael de Courcy
Brother	Nevinson Willoughby de Courcy RM
Father-in-Law	William Blennerhasset
Date of Death	1824/02/22
Naval Service Events
Ship	Date From	Date To	Event	Source
	1824/02/05		Entered the Navy	B080
	1830		Passed the Lieutenant's Examination	B080
Promoted to Lieutenant, 28^th June 1838				B080
Racer	1838/09/20	1841/03/04	As Lieutenant	B080
Charybdis	1841/03/04	1844/07/13	As Commander	B080
Promoted to Commander, 12^th February 1842				B080
	1844/07/13		Obtained employment in the Coast Guard	B080
Helena	1848/09/02	1851/11/30	As Commander	W025
	1857/07/16		Commissioned as commander of the Screw corvette Pylades (21) at Sheerness	W025
	1861/07/30		Pylades (21) was paid off	W025
Royal George	1864/04	1865/04/03	As Commander	W025
Personal Events
Date	Event			Source

Notes on Officer
Honoured with an Island	William Loney RN - Background
De Courcy Island, in the Northumberland Channel off the east coast of central Vancouver Island is namen after him (he charted these waters in Pylades from 1859 to 1861)

Sources
Id	Link or Description	Author
001	The Peerage dot com	Various
B080	A Naval Biographical Dictionary 1849	O'Brien
W025	William Loney RN - Background	P Davis

Last Updated :2009/01/06 at 21:12:32 by Cy

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