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Rh he, the Captain, and two seamen were the only persons who escaped. Since he quitted the about 1825, he has been on half-pay. – Goode and Lawrence.

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entered the Navy, 3 Sept. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 64, Capt. Henry Digby; and on 21 Oct. following was wounded at the battle of Trafalgar. The injury he sustained procured him a grant from the Patriotic Fund. In Dec. 1805 (he had already attained the rating of Midshipman) he removed, at Gibraltar, to the 18, Capt. Geo. Digby; with whom, in the early part of 1806, he returned to England, we believe, in the 74. In the course of the same year he joined the 64, Capt. Henry Lidgbird Ball, at the Nore, the  74, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Thos. Macnamara Russell in the North Sea, and the 16, Capt. John Richards Lapenotiere. After uniting in the latter vessel in Lord Gambier’s attack upon Copenhagen he was again, in Jan. 1808, placed under the command of Capt. Geo. Digby in the 24; in which ship he continued employed in the Channel under Capt. Thos. Garth, until April, 1812; in the course of which month we find him rejoining Capt. Digby on board the frigate in the Mediterranean. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 10 Feb. 1812; and was appointed subsequently – 2 Sept. 1812, to the sloop, Capts. Rich. Spear and Stewart Blacker, in the North Sea – 21 Oct. 1813, after three or four months of half-pay, occasioned by ill-health, to the 74, Capt. Thos. Alexander, stationed in the Roompot – 4 March, 1814, to the 10, Capts. Edm. Lyons and Archibald Tisdall, in which vessel he escorted the Allied Sovereigns to England, and then proceeded to the West Indies, whence he invalided in the ensuing Dec – 28 Feb. 1837, for upwards of three years, to the Coast Guard – 23 Dec. 1841, to the post of Admiralty Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel – and 24 Aug. 1843, to the 80, guard-ship at Sheerness, Capts. Peter Fisher and Rich. Arthur. Since his promotion to the rank of Commander, which took place 9 Nov. 1846, he has been on half-pay. He obtained a pension of 6l. per annum for wounds 17 May, 1843. – Messrs. Chard.

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, a native of Havant, co. Hants, is son of the late Geo. White, Esq., Purser and Paymaster R.N. (1793), of Dunse, N.B.; and half-brother of the present.

This officer entered the Navy, in Dec. 1798, as A.B., on board the gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander John Wood, stationed off Jersey, where he continued employed as Midshipman until May, 1802. From July until Oct. of the latter year he served in the 14, Lieut.-Commander Hugh Cook, in the Mediterranean; and in March, 1803, he joined the  98, Capts. Wm. Domett, Edw. Brace, John Child Purvis, Robt. Carthew Reynolds, Geo. Reynolds, Edw. Rotheram, and John Conn. In that ship, which bore the flags at different periods of Admirals Cornwallis, Collingwood, and Lord Northesk, he was for a long time stationed in the Channel and off Cadiz, and was present as Master’s Mate at the battle of Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805. Removing, in May, 1806, to the 74, Capts. Wm. Grenville Lobb, Geo. Cockburn, Isaac Wolley, and the late Sir Jas. Athol Wood, he was afforded an opportunity of assisting, 27 Sept. following, at the capture, by a squadron under Sir Thos. Louis, of Le Président French frigate of 44 guns. He cooperated also in the reduction of Copenhagen in Aug. and Sept. 1807; and in Feb. and April, 1809, he served on shore at the taking of Martinique and the Saintes. In Aug. of the year last-mentioned he accompanied Sir J. A. Wood as Acting-Lieutenant (he had obtained that rank in the Captain 4 Dec. 1807) into the 98. To her he was confirmed 2 Nov. ensuing. His next appointment was, with Sir J. A. Wood, 18 March, 1810, to the 74; to which ship he continued attached in the West Indies, Channel, and Mediterranean, until Nov. 1815. On 5 Nov. 1813 he was present in a partial action with the French Toulon fleet. He was afterwards, from 24 Nov. 1825 until 1831, employed in the Coast Blockade with his name on the books of the and  74’s, both commanded by Capt. Hugh Pigot. During four years and six months of that period he was a Divisional- Lieutenant, and had the superintendence of the left division of the Kentish Coast Blockade. He accepted the rank he now holds 2 March, 1849. – Case and Loudonsack.

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, born 11 Oct. 1802, at Droxford, co. Hants, is eldest son of the late Rear-Admiral Thos. White.

This officer entered the Royal Naval College 20 Nov. 1816; and embarked, in Dec. 1818, as Midshipman, on board the 20, Capt. Timothy Scriven, stationed on the coast of Ireland. After serving for some months in the Channel in the 18, Capt. Job Hanmer, he joined, in Aug. 1819, the  78, commanded by his father, and sailed for South America; where he continued employed in the  42, commanded at first by Capt. White and next by Capts. Thos. Bourchier and Hon. Fred. Spencer, as Midshipman and Mate in the 76, Capt. Gordon Thos. , and as Acting-Lieutenant (order dated 2 May, 1825) in the 18, Capt. Wm. Fanshawe Martin, until officially promoted 24 July, 1825. His succeeding appointments were – 20 July, 1827, to the 18, Capt. Thos. Saville Griffinhoofe, fitting for the coast of Africa – 5 Nov. following, to the 74, Capts. Henry Hill, Alex. Wilmot Schomberg, and Christopher John Williams Nesham, in which ship he was for three years and ten months stationed chiefly off the coast of Portugal and in the Mediterranean – 18 Nov. 1833, as Senior, to the 16, Capt. John Hackett, on the south coast of Spain – and (after nearly eight months of half-pay) 19 Feb. 1838 and 1 Feb. 1839, in a similar capacity, to the  and  74’s, both commanded by Capt. Edw. Harvey, on the North American and West India stations. In the he was present in 1840 in the operations on the coast of Syria and at the blockade of Alexandria. He attained the rank of Commander 23 Nov. 1841; and from 12 July, 1845, until Posted 9 Nov. 1846, was employed with the Channel squadron aa Second-Captain in the 84, Capt. Fairfax Moresby. He has not been since afloat. Messrs. Stilwell.

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entered the Navy, 22 May, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 22, Capt. Alex. Shippard, in which vessel he cruized in the Baltic and then sailed for the coast of North America, where he was wrecked as Midshipman in the river St. Lawrence 29 Oct. 1808, suffering on the occasion many hardships. In April, 1809, he joined the 74, Capts. John Irwin and Robt. Hall, at Spithead; and from the following Nov. until July, 1816, he was employed, on the Home, Baltic, and Brazilian stations, in the 74, Capt. A. Shippard,  28, Capt. Wm Ferris,  again, Capt. Shippard,  brig. Capt. Manley Hall Dixon,  and  74’s, flagships of Rear-Admiral Manley Dixon,  (a corvette borrowed from the Brazilian Government), Capt. Joseph Patey, and a second time in the. He served afterwards, ftom Aug. 1816 until Dec. 1818, as Admiralty-Midshipman, in the sloop, Capt. Edw. Curzon, in South America, the North Sea, and Mediterranean; and from the latter date until confirmed in his present rank 19