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1228 1842 until Jan. 1845, served among the Azores, as Mate and Lieutenant (commission dated 12 Feb. 1844) in the steam-surveying vessel, Capt. Alex. Thos. Emeric Vidal. During the after-part of 1845 he was employed, still on surveying service, with his name on the books of the William and yacht. Commodore Sir Fras. Augustus Collier, and steamer, Capt. Chas. Gepp Robinson. He has been in charge, since 20 June, 1848, of a station in the Coast Guard.

 VEITCH. 

passed his examination 7 Oct. 1846; and after having served as Mate on board the gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 23 Dec. 1847. He has been employed, since 27 of that month, in the 36, Capt. John Shepherd, now in the Pacific.

 VENUS. 

died towards the close of 1846.

This officer entered the Navy, in Feb. 1800, as A.B., on board the armed ship, Capts. Geo. Wolfe and Stephen Folvil, stationed in the North Sea. Being discharged in Dec. 1801, he next, in July, 1803, joined the 74, Capts. Geo. Martin and Jas. Nicoll Morris; under the latter of whom, after serving off Ferrol, in the Channel, and off Cadiz, he fought at the battle of Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805. Removing in the ensuing Dec. to the 74, Capt. John Harvey, he was for about two years stationed in that ship in the West Indies; where in Jan. 1808 he was transferred to the  40, Capt. Alex. Skene. In June, 1809, being then at Halifax, he followed Capt. Skene as Master’s Mate (he had latterly held the rating of Gunner’s Mate) into the 38; in which frigate, commanded next by Capt. Jas. Coutts Crawford, he assisted, in the course of the same year, in the operations against Walcheren. He served subsequently off Guernsey and in the Baltic, and, on ultimately proceeding to the East Indies, was afforded an opportunity of assisting, in 1811, at the reduction of Java. He returned to England with Capt. Crawford as Acting-Master in the 36, in March, 1813; and he then in succession joined, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, the  74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Geo. Hope in the Baltic, the and  74’s, Capts. Ross Donnelly and A. Skene, lying at Sheerness and Portsmouth, and the troop-ship, Capt. Chas. Sullivan. Proceeding with the latter officer to Quebec he was next, from May, 1814, until July, 1816, employed as Master’s Mate, Acting-Lieutenant, and Lieutenant (order and commission dated 10 Sept. and 14 Pec. 1814) in the and, bearing the broad pendants of Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo and Sir Edw. W. C R. Owen on Lake Ontario – in command, on Lakes Erie, St. Clair, and Huron, of the schooner – in charge of the Rendezvous at Montreal – and again in the  under Capt. Wm. Fitzwilliam Owen. He did not afterwards go afloat. He was granted a pension of 8l. per annum for wounds 25 April, 1843.

Lieut. Venus married, in 1833, Miss Robinson, of Gloucester Street, Portsea. – Hallett and Robinson.

 VERNON. 

passed his examination 11 March, 1845; served at Portsmouth and in the Channel, as Mate, in the gunnery-ship, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, and 92, Capt. Edw. Collier; obtained his commission 24 April, 1847; and since 28 March, 1848, has been employed on the coast of Africa in the 3, Capt. Fred. Leopold Augustus Selwyn.

 VESEY. 

passed his examination 12 April, 1843; served as Mate in the 110, flag-ship of Sir John West at Devonport, and in the  8, Capt. Geo. Sprigg, on the coast of Africa; was nominated, 13 July, 1846, Acting-Lieutenant, on the latter station, of the 6, Capt. Chas. Edmunds; and was officially promoted 9 Nov. following. He has been employed, since 19 Jan. 1848, as Additional-Lieutenant of the 72, flag-ship of the Earl of Dundonald in North America and the West Indies.

 VEVERS. 

entered the Navy, 20 Aug. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 40, Capt. Hon. Thos. Bladen Capel, under whose command (deducting an interval from 1810 to 1812, passed as a Supernumerary in the, , and , Capts. Robt. Hall, John Nash, and Andw. King, at Spithead, in the Channel, and off Brest) he continued employed as Midshipman in the same ship and in 74, in the Mediterranean and on the coast of North America, until 1814. In the he was present at the passage of the Dardanells in Feb. 1807; and in  he assisted, among other operations, in blockading some of the enemy’s frigates in New London. After serving for a few months with Capt. Adam Mackenzie in a guard-ship at Sheerness, and with Capt. Buckland Stirling Bluett in the 20, at Spithead, he was promoted, 7 Feb. 1815, to the rank of Lieutenant. From Jan. until Nov. 1818 he was stationed at St. Helena in the 74, Capts. John Davie and Fras. Stanfell, and 26, Capt. Hercules Robinson. He has since been on half-pay.

 VIBART. 

entered the Navy, 19 April, 1804, as A.B., on board the 74, Capts. Sir Rich. John Strachan and Pulteney Malcolm. It would appear that in her he was present at the capture of the Spanish 44-gun frigate Amfitrite and of a vessel with a cargo on board worth 200,000l.; in Lord Nelson’s pursuit of the combined fleets to the West Indies and back; at the capture of El Rayo of 100 guns, one of the ships recently defeated at Trafalgar; and in the action off St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806. In Sept. of the latter year he removed (he had already attained the rating of Midshipman) to the 32, Capt. Wm. D’Urban; and in that ship he continued employed in the Mediterranean, as Master’s Mate, until Aug. 1809. He was then transferred, in the capacity last-mentioned, to the 50, Capt. Thos. Geo. Shortland, on the Channel station. He served subsequently – from Nov. 1810 until Sept. 1811, as Acting-Lieutenant, in the and  74’s, Capts, Lord Amelius Beauclerk and Hon. Henry Hotham, in Basque Roads – from 2 Oct. 1811 until 6 June, 1812, as Midshipman, In the  93, flag-ship of Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley at Lisbon – from 7 June until 13 Sept. 1812, as Acting-Lieutenant, in the 32, armée en flûte, Capt. David Dunn – from Nov. 1812 until Aug. 1813, as Midshipman, in the  64, bearing the flag in the Tagus of Vice-Admiral Geo. Martin – and, from Aug. 1813 until July, 1814, as Acting-Lieutenant and Lieutenant (commission dated 1 Jan. 1814), in the gunboat service at Gibraltar and Cadiz. He has since been on half-pay.

Lieut. Vibart is Senior of 1814.

 VICARY. 

was born 7 Dec. 1792. This officer entered the Navy, 6 Feb. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capts. Sir Rich. King, Hon. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dnndas, and Aiskew Paffard Hollis; in which ship he was for nine years and a half employed in the Channel, off the coasts of France and Spain, and in the Mediterranean and South America, the greater of the time as Midshipman and Master’s Mate. He was present during that period at the battle of Trafalgar; at the capture of four French frigates off Rochefort<section end="Vicary, William" />