1. Vice-Admiral William John Samuel Pullen was a Royal Navy officer who was the first European to sail along the north coast of Alaska from the Bering Strait to the Mackenzie River in Canada.
12 Facts About William Pullen
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William Pullen was employed in exploring and surveying the mouth of the Murray River, and may be regarded as the discoverer of Port Adelaide, into which he sailed on September 28,1836, three months before the arrival of the first Governor.
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William Pullen surveyed part of the Lower Murray, Lake Alexandrina and Port Elliot, and did much to elucidate the geography of the South Australian coast.
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In late July and early August 1840, William Pullen was in charge of the first expedition along the Coorong to investigate the murders of the survivors of the Maria shipwreck, and took part in Major O'Halloran's subsequent punitive expedition.
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William Pullen returned to the navy in 1842, and was stationed on HMS Columbia surveying the Saint John River and the Bay of Fundy, being promoted to lieutenant in the process in 1846.
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William Pullen married Abigail Louisa Berton at Saint John, New Brunswick, in 1845.
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William Pullen was just returning from a survey of the Bay of Fundy when Bathurst asked him to join the Plover.
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William Pullen took a mail steamer to Panama, crossed the isthmus, waited a month for the Plover and then joined the Asia.
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William Pullen now had 13 men, two whale boats and a purchased umiak.
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On his return to England, William Pullen learned he had been promoted to commander, and in February 1852, he was placed in command of the depot ship HMS North Star as part of Edward Belcher's expedition in search of John Franklin.
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In 1855 William Pullen was placed in command of HMS Falcon as a part of operations of the Crimean War against Russia forces in the Baltic Sea, and was promoted to captain the next year.
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William Pullen received a Greenwich pension in 1886, and died the next year at Torquay.