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Rh Channel – in 1821, to the command of the Revenue-cruizer – 22 Dec. 1825, to the  6, Capt. Wm. King, at Falmouth – and 20 July, 1826, to the command, which he retained until 1827, of the packet, on the latter station. He accepted his present rank 15 April, 1844.

 WHITE, K.C.B.

died Commander-in-Chief at Sheerness, 4 April, 1845.

This officer entered the Navy, 7 June, 1781, as Captain’s Servant, on board the 32, Capt. Christopher Mason, stationed on the coast of North America, where he removed, in Aug. 1783, as Midshipman (a rating he had already attained), to the  50, Capt. Thos. Lennox Frederick. From 1784 until 1786 he served at Portsmouth in the 74, Capt. Sir Hyde Parker; and on 22 Nov. 1790, at which period he had been for a short time employed at Spithead and in the Channel in the  and, Capts. Geo. Gayton and Henry Warre, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His next appointments were, 13 Sept. and 21 Dec. 1793 and 5 June, 1795, to the, , and frigates, the two former commanded by Capts. Hon. Seymour Finch and Geo. Murray, the latter bearing the broad pendant of Sir John Borlase Warren, and all employed on the Home station, where he was made Commander, 28 Aug. 1795, into the sloop. In her his activity enabled him to make prize, in May and Sept. 1796, of the Mercury Dutch brig-of-war of 16 guns, and Phoenix French privateer of 4 guns and 32 men. In July, 1797, he stood in with great promptitude and, by a well-directed fire, maintained for some hours, prevented the crew of the French 36-gun frigate Calliope, on shore, near the Penmarcks, from using any means to save their ship or stores; and in the following month he joined in an attack made upon a French convoy at the entrance of Sable d’Olonne, besides assisting at the capture of five coasting vessels and the destruction of Le Petit Diable cutter of 18 guns and 100 men. In the affair with the Calliope the had 6 of her people wounded, and with the convoy at Sable d’Olonne 2 killed and 4 wounded. In Feb. 1798 she was present at the capture of La Légere, French ship-privateer of 18 guns and 130 men: she intercepted subsequently the Eliza, an American ship, with a valuable cargo from Batavia, viâ Boston, bound to Amsterdam; La Fouine, a French national lugger of 8 guns and 26 men; two Spanish letters-of-marque richly laden; Le Début, a French brig of 8 guns (pierced for 16), bound to Cayenne with merchandize; and El Golondina, a Spanish packet, pierced for 20 guns, but with only 4 mounted. Capt. White was promoted to Post-rank, 2 Aug. 1799, in the 98; and was subsequently appointed – 31 Oct. 1800 (after five months of half-pay) to the  74, flag-ship during the first 12 months of Sir J. B. Warren – 8 July, 1804, to the  74 – 9 Dec. 1805 (he had left the Kent in Dec. of the preceding year), to the  80, as Flag-Captain to Sir J. B. Warren, with whom he served until Nov. 1806 – 24 Sept. and 20 Nov. 1810, to the  120 and  74, in the latter of which ships he remained until Nov. 1814 – and 27 May, 1825, and 26 June, 1827, to the  and  yachts. In the, under Sir J. B. Warren (who had with him, besides, the , , , and 74’s, the  armée en flûte, and  frigate), Capt. White went to the Mediterranean in the early part of 1801 in chase of a French armament under M. Ganteaume; whom he there pursued to the coast of Egypt and in other directions. While so employed the encountered a gale of wind accompanied with much thunder and lightning, which killed 3 men and wounded 2 others. She united subsequently in the defence of Porto Ferrajo, in the island of Elba; where we find Capt. White superintending, 14 Sept. 1801, the landing and re-embarking of 689 seamen and marines, sent from the squadron to assist the garrison in a sortie made for the purpose of destroying the enemy’s batteries; a service which he performed in a very creditable manner, under a heavy fire from the French, and for which Sir John Warren acknowledged him to be “entitled to his wannest thanks.” After commanding the for two years and nine months as a private ship, part of the time at the blockade of Toulon, Capt. White returned to England in 1804, in the Kent, with 1,060,000 dollars, received on board at Cadiz. On 13 March, 1806, being then in the, he witnessed the capture, during a cruize to the westward, of the Marengo 80, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule. The was taken by him to the Mediterranean for the flag of Sir Sam. Hood. He co-operated in the in the defence of Tarragona until the fall of that city, 28 June, 1811; and he was present in the same ship, in April, 1814, at the destruction, in the Gironde, of the Regulus 74, three brigs-of-war, several smaller vessels, and all the forts and batteries on the north side of the river. He was superseded from the on the occasion of his promotion to Flag-rank, 22 July, 1830. He attained the rank of Vice-Admiral 10 Jan. 1837; was nominated a K.C.B. 29 June, 1841; and from 15 Jan. 1844 until the period of his death, as above, was Commander-in-Chief at the Nore.

Sir John Chambers White married, first, in 1800, Cordelia, daughter of Capt. Robt. Fanshawe, R.N., Resident Commissioner of Plymouth Dockyard, sister of the present, and sister-in-law of Admirals Wm. Bedford, Sir Thos. Byam Martin, G.C.B,, and Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford, G.C.B.; and secondly, 25 April, 1816, Charlotte Elizabeth, eldest daughter of General Sir Hew Whiteford Dalrymple, Bart., Colonel of the 57th Foot, and sister-in-law of the present Vice-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres. Sir John, who became a widower again 11 April, 1828, has left issue.

 WHITE. 

entered the Navy, 25 March, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the, Capt. Chas. Henry Lane, flag-ship at Plymouth of Admirals Lord Keith and Wm. Young. In April, 1805, exactly two years after he had attained the rating of Midshipman, he removed to the 74, Capts. John Cooke, Wm. Pryce Cumby (Acting), Edw. Rotheram, and Sam. Warren. In her he fought at Trafalgar and continued employed in the Channel, off Rochefort and Cape Finisterre, and in the North Sea, until transferred, in March, 1809, to the 38, Capts. Sir Peter Parker and Fred. Warren. The latter ship, while he was in her, was attacked, in the Belt, about a mile from the shore, during a perfect calm and in a dark night, by 20 large Danish gun-boats; whom at the end of the action, which lasted from lOh. 30m. until daylight, she beat off, having defeated every attempt made by the enemy to board. Her hull and rigging were on this occasion much damaged, and her loss extended to several men killed and wounded. On leaving the Mr. White who in the affair just recorded had performed the duties of Master’s Mate, was received as a Supernumerary, in Sept. 1809, on board the  74,