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1278 Alex. Ball. For his conduct as First-Lieutenant of the ship last mentioned at the battle of the Nile he was promoted to the rank of Commander 8 Oct. 1798. He was employed in the Sea Feneibles in Ireland from 1 March, 1806, until 28 Feb. 1810; and in raising seamen for the service in Dublin from 23 Feb. 1811 until 31 Aug. 1816. He was admitted to the Out-Pension of Greenwich Hospital 8 June, 1824; and is now the senior officer of his rank in the Navy.

One of Commander Whipple’s daughters, Matilda Elizabeth, married, 23 Nov. 1841, G. K. Bell, Esq., of the Bombay Artillery; and another, Mary, 7 Jan. 1845,

 WHIPPLE. 

was born 9 Sept. 1813.

This officer entered the Royal Naval College 9 March, 1827, and embarked, 13 March, 1829, as a Volunteer, on board the 42, Capt. Chas. Napier, in which frigate he continued employed on particular service, part of the time in the capacity of Midshipman, until Jan. 1832. He served afterwards on the Home, West India, Lisbon, and Mediterranean stations, as Midshipman and Mate (he passed his examination 19 June, 1833), in the 20, Capt. Lord Edw. Russell, 10, Lieut.-Commander Robt. Loney, 74, Capt. Sir Wm. Henry Dillon, 10, Lieut.-Commanders M‘Ilwaine and John Simpson, and  84, Capt. C. Napier. His conduct in the ship last mentioned in the operations on the coast of Syria and at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre procured him a commission dated 4 Nov. 1840. His subsequent appointments were – 15 Dec. 1840, as Additional-Lieutenant, to the 104, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford in the Mediterranean – 15 Jan. 1841, again to the, Capts. Geo. Mansel and Michael Seymour, on the same station – 5 Feb. 1842, to the 72, fitting for the flag of Sir Thos. John Cochrane, Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies, whence he invalided 27 Dec. following – 2 Feb. and 19 July, 1844, and 30 Jan. 1845, to the 104,  110, and  120, flag-ships of Sir John Chambers White and Sir Edw. Durnford King at Sheerness – and 15 June, 1846, as Senior, to the 18, Capt. John Balfour Maxwell, with whom he returned to the East Indies. He came home and was paid off in the early part of 1849. – Joseph Woodhead.

 WHISH. 

entered the Navy, 27 June, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 98, Capt. Edw. Sneyd Clay, successive flag-ship, in the Channel and Baltic, of Rear-Admirals Fras. Pickmore and Elias Harvey. In Feb. 1810 he removed to the 38, Capt. Alex. Skene, on the Guernsey station; he became Midshipman, in the following summer, of the frigate, Capt. E. S. Clay, in the North Sea; and from Jan. 1811 until Sept. 1815, he was employed at the Cape of Good Hope, in the Mediterranean, and again off Guernsey in the Curaçoa 36, Capt. John Tower. In Oct. of the year last mentioned he was rated Master’s Mate of the sloop, Capt. Jas. Mould; in which vessel he sailed in 1816 with the expedition against Algiers. On the memorable 27 Aug. he was doing duty on board the battery-ship, Lieut.-Commander Rich. Howell Fleming. He returned to England with Lord Exmouth in the 100; was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 16 Sept. 1816; and was appointed next – 9 June, 1818, to the  104, bearing the flag of Lord Exmouth at Plymouth – and, 13 July, 1821, and 17 Aug. and 4 Dec. 1824, to the  10, Capts. Wm. Geo. Martin, Jas. Wigston, Edwin Ludlow Rich, and Rawdon Maclean,, Capt. Geo. Vernon Jackson, and 42, Capt. Henry Dundas, all in the West Indies. On 11 Nov. 1825, he was promoted to the command, which he retained but for a short period, of the sloop. His last appointment was, 26 Jan. 1837, to the 16, on the North America and West India station, whence he returned home and was paid off in the early part of 1838. He attained his present rank 23 Nov. 1841.

Capt. Whish married, 2 June, 1828, Julia, second daughter of the late John Vivian, Esq., of Portland Place, London, and Claverton, co. Somerset, sister-in-law of

 WHITAKER. 

entered the Navy, 6 Aug. 1803, as Midshipman, on board the 38, Capt. Robt. Dudley Oliver; with whom, and with Capts. Wm. Lukin and Jas. Katon, he served in the 74, from Nov. 1805 until made Lieutenant, 22 Dec. 1809, into the  74, Capt. Thos. Rogers – the latter part of the time in the capacity of Master’s Mate. In the he twice assisted at the bombardment of Havre-de-Grace, and cruized among the Western Islands. In the he contributed, 28 July, 1806, to the capture, off the coast of France, after a chase of more than 150 miles, and in the presence of three other French frigates, of Le Rhin of 44 guns and 318 men. He was also present with a squadron under Sir Sam. Hood at the capture, off Rochefort, 25 Sept. following, of four heavy frigates, two of which, the Gloire 46 and Infatigdble 44, struck to the ; and, besides assisting at the siege of Copenhagen in Aug. and Sept. 1807, was actively employed in affording protection to the Baltic trade. On one occasion, while skylarking in the cockpit, he had the misfortune, by a biscuit being thrown at him, to be deprived of the sight of an eye. During the period of his servitude in the, which ship he left in Jan. 1813, he was stationed off Lisbon and in the Mediterranean, and shared, in 1812, in one or two slight skirmishes with the Toulon fleet. His last appointment was, in Sept. 1813, to the 74, successive flag-ship of Sir Fras. Laforey and Sir Chas. Vinicombe Penrose, under whom he was two years employed in the West Indies and again in the Mediterranean. He was advanced to the rank he now holds by a commission bearing date 13 June, 1815.

Commander Whitaker is married and has issue.

 WHITCOMBE. 

entered the Navy, 16 May, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 38, Capt. Chas. Feilding, stationed in the Channel and off the coast of Portugal. In March, 1808, he joined the, flag-ship of Sir Henry Edwin Stanhope in the river Thames; and in May, 1809, after having served for 11 months in the North Sea and Channel and off Cadiz in the 74, Capt. Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy, he was received as Midshipman on board the 98, bearing the flag off Lisbon of Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley. While in the latter ship, in which he remained until Feb. 1812, he was employed in her boats in co-operation with the British army up the Tagus. On leaving her he joined the frigate, Capt. Farmery Predam Epworth, at Plymouth; and from the following April until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 6 March, 1815, he served in the  40, Capts. Fras. Wm. Fane and Philip Carteret, and 32, at Newfoundland, in the Downs, on the north coast of Spain, on the coast of Portugal, at Gibraltar, and on the coast of North America. His subsequent appointments were – 13 July, 1816, to the 10, Capt. Thos. Carew – 14 Dec. 1821, to the 28, flag-ship of Sir John Poo Beresford at Leith – and 26 April, 1824, to the  18, Capt. Geo. Gosling, on the Irish station. In the, after visiting Gibraltar and Newfoundland, he was wrecked on the point of Mount Batten, at the entrance of Catwater, 21 Jan. 1817; on which occasion