Henry Peter Peglar was an English seaman who served in the Royal Navy.
27 Facts About Harry Peglar
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Harry Peglar served as Captain of the Foretop, a Petty Officer rank, on HMS Terror during the 1845 Franklin Expedition, which sought to chart the Canadian Arctic, find the Northwest Passage, and make scientific observations.
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Harry Peglar was born to John and Sarah Peglar on 22 February 1812 and was baptized on 29 November 1813 alongside his sister Elizabeth, who had been born in 1810.
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Harry Peglar's father was a gunsmith working at 12 Buckingham Row, Petty France, City of Westminster, England.
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John Harry Peglar was a political radical who voted for Francis Burdett.
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Harry Peglar was received by the Marine Society, a charitable organization for helping destitute boys and training seamen, on 4 August 1825.
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In September 1825, one month after his admittance into the Marine Society, Harry Peglar was sent to HMS Solebay, a shoreside training station where he was initiated into the navy, being trained in rowing, going aloft, managing sails, making knots and splices, using equipment such as the compass, and working guns and other arms, as well as in reading, writing, habituation to subordination and naval discipline, and religious instruction, going to Deptford Church on Sundays.
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Harry Peglar was discharged "with a good character" from Solebay on 14 December 1825, and sent aboard the tender Star to join HMS Clio, stationed in the Chatham Dockyard.
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Harry Peglar was then transferred to HMS Magnificent, a hospital ship, where he was rated as Boy, supernumerary for wages and victuals, working in the sick quarters.
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Harry Peglar sailed to Plymouth and then on to Port Royal, Jamaica, where Magnificent became employed as a store ship under Lieutenant John Mundell.
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The next Royal Navy ship on which Harry Peglar definitively served was the 6th Rate 28-gun HMS Rattlesnake, which travelled throughout the Caribbean in 1826 and 1827.
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On 3 September 1827, only days after returning to England, Harry Peglar joined the ship HMS Perseus, stationed at the Tower of London and commanded by Captain James Crouch.
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Harry Peglar was discharged from Prince Regent for an unknown reason, his record explained that he did something to an apprentice, but the details are no longer legible.
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Shortly after leaving St Helena, Harry Peglar wrote that Marquis Camden was struck by lightning, which killed a sergeant and private.
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Harry Peglar spent minimal time on Ramillies, and was moved to HMS Antelope, the ship's tender to Ramillies, engaged in the same work.
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Harry Peglar returned to the Royal Navy aboard HMS Talavera, a 3rd Rate, 74-gun ship that operated out of Sheerness.
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Harry Peglar wrote to be discharged from Talavera, and was successful in getting it.
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Harry Peglar served from 14 February 1832 until he was discharged 31 May 1833.
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Harry Peglar did not mention this service in his report due to it being unsatisfactory: he was disrated to ordinary seaman in January 1833, confined in irons, and punished with two dozen lashes for drunkenness and mutinous conduct.
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Harry Peglar joined, on 4 April 1834, the 18-gun brig-sloop HMS Gannet, which sailed first into the Mediterranean before crossing the Atlantic for four years' service in North America and the West Indies.
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In February 1838, Harry Peglar was discharged from Gannet, and joined HMS Temeraire at Sheerness as an able seaman.
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Harry Peglar turned over to the sloop HMS Wanderer, keeping his position as Captain of the Forecastle.
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Harry Peglar transferred to Wanderer on 3 December 1839, which sailed for the Caribbean in 1840.
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In 1840, while Harry Peglar was serving aboard, the crew of Wanderer destroyed the last two great slave-processing factories in Western Africa.
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Harry Peglar earned the post of Captain of the Foretop aboard Wanderer and was rated "very good" by Denman when he was discharged on 27 June 1844.
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Harry Peglar spent several months ashore before signing on to Terror under Captain Francis Crozier, on 11 March 1845 in Chatham.
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Harry Peglar is one candidate, as are Joseph Andrews, John Bates, John Bridgens, George Cann, George Chambers, Charles Coombs, Edward Couch, Josephus Geater, William Gibson, James Hart, George Hodgson, Thomas Jopson, Edwin Lawrence, Edward Little, Reuben Male, Thomas Plater, Robert Sargent, Luke Smith, James Thompson, and William Wentzell.