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HALSTED—HAM—HAMBLY—HAMBY. Capt. Halsted has left a son, the present

 HALSTED. 

is son of the late

This officer entered the Royal Naval College 7 March, 1816, and embarked, 18 Feb. 1819, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 46, Capt. Hon. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew. After serving for five years on the Mediterranean station in that frigate, and in the sloop, Capt. Thos. Ball Clowes, and 80, flag-ship of Sir Graham Moore, he sailed for the West Indies in the  28, Capt. Hugh Patton, and was there promoted to a Lieutenancy, 25 Feb. 1824, in the  10, Capt. John Geo. Graham. On 24 Dec. 1825, having been further employed in the schooner, and  and  frigates, Capts. Jackson, Geo. Harris, and Henry Dundas, he became Flag-Lieutenant, in the 50, to his uncle, Sir L. W. Halsted, then Commander-in-Chief on the same station. He was in consequence advanced to his present rank by commission dated 13 June, 1827. With the exception of some months in 1837-8, and again in 1843-4, he has been employed in the Coast Guard ever since 18 March, 1834. – J. Hinxman.

 HALSTED. 

died suddenly, 7 Nov. 1846, while serving, as below, on board the ,.

This officer entered the Navy 1 Sept. 1834; passed his examination in 1840; and for his performances in China, where he was mentioned in the despatches as having served on shore as Mate of the 72, Capt. Thos. Maitland, at the capture of Amoy and Chinghae, was promoted, towards the close of 1842, to the rank of Lieutenant, by commission dated back to 8 Oct. 1841. He afterwards, from 23 Sept. 1843, until the period of his death, served in the steam-sloop, Capt. Wm. Maitland, on the East India station; where, during an expedition conducted in July, 1846, by Sir Thos. John Cochrane against the Sultan of Borneo, he commanded the pinnace, and assisted at the destruction, on 8 of that month, of the enemy’s forts and batteries in the river Brune. – J. Hinxman.

 HAM. 

entered the Navy, 8 Dec. 1806, as A.B., on board the 36, Capt. John Parish, on the Jamaica station; and in Sept. following became Midshipman of the, bearing the flag off Guernsey of Sir Jas. Saumarez; with whom, from March, 1808, until Dec. 1812, he further served in the Baltic as Master’s Mate of the 104. He then, in a similar capacity, joined the 74, Capt. Sir Arch. Collingwood Dickson, from which ship, after a continued servitude of more than 12 months on the same station, he removed to the 74, Capt. Chas. Dashwood. He subsequently cruized off the Western Islands and in the Mediterranean on board the 74, Capt. Henry Bazely; but since the receipt of his commission, which bears date 20 March, 1815, has been unemployed.

 HAMBLY. 

entered the Navy, 1 Dec. 1797, as Midshipman, on board the 110, Capt. Hon. Geo. Grey, bearing the flag off Lisbon and in the Mediterranean of Earl St. Vincent. Removing, subsequently, to the 36, Capt. Thos. Moutray Waller, he assisted in that ship, in company with the 74, and was slightly wounded, at the capture, 7 April, 1800, of the two Spanish frigates Carmen and Florentina, each laden with 500 quintals of quicksilver, for the use of the mines at Lima. Independently of that service, he was frequently employed in the ’s boats, off the port of Cadiz, was instrumental to the capture of several privateers, and was a second time wounded. While next attached, as Master’s Mate, between the summers of 1800 and 1802, to the 36, Capt. John Broughton, he served at the landing of the troops in Egypt, and received a sabre-cut in the right wrist, 21 March, 1801, in the battle in which Sir Ralph Abercromby was killed. In April, 1803, after he had been for a short period borne on the books of the 80, Capt. Sir Edw. Pellew, he joined the 98, Capt. Rich. Grindall, under whom he fought at Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805. At the close of the conflict, Mr. Hambly was sent on board the Spanish 130-gun ship Santissima Trinidad, and he remained until within a short time of her going down, the water, when he left, having reached above her lower deck. Being promoted, in honour of the victory, by commission dated 24 Dec. in the same year, he was next appointed – 27 March, 1806, to the sloop, Capts. Robt. Raynsford and Wm. Landless, on the Mediterranean station – 18 Dec. 1806, to the 98, Capts. Eras. Pender, Wm. Shields, Chas. Inglis, and Thos. Geo. Shortland, employed off Cadiz, the Dardanells, &c. – 11 July, 1808, to the 74, Capt. Chas. Ekins, by whom, after assisting at the blockade of Flushing and Kronstat, he was intrusted with the erection and command of a battery on an island in the Gulf of Finland, for the purpose of obstructing the movements of the Russians – and, in Oct. 1810, to the command of part of the flotilla employed at the defence of Cadiz, where, and at Tarifa, he continued in almost daily collision with the enemy, until the autumn of 1813, when be invalided. In June, 1814, he joined the flotilla on the river St. Lawrence, and when the 100-gun ship of that name was ready for launching he was appointed her First-Lieutenant. By the time she was nearly equipped for sea, he was sent to take the command on Lake Champlain, where he remained until the month of Dec. He then became Senior of the 32, Capt. Peter Fisher, from which ship, stationed on Lalce Ontario, he removed to the acting-command, 11 July, 1815, of the  sloop. From 12 of the following Oct. until 30 Nov. 1816, we next find him superintending the naval establishment on Lake Huron. He obtained a second promotal commission 12 Aug. 1819; and from 3 Aug. 1838, until his Post-promotion, 23 Nov. 1841, was employed in command of the 18, on the South American station. He has since been on half-pay.

Capt. Hambly, we believe, has been twice married – the second time, 17 Nov. 1842, to Caroline, second daughter of the late Lieut.-Colonel Maule. He has four sons. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 HAMBLY. 

passed his examination 2 Sept. 1844; became Mate, 17 April, 1345, of the 42, Capt. John Norman Campbell, stationed on the south-east coast of America; and attained the rank of Lieutenant 9 Nov. 1846.

 HAMBY. 

entered the Navy, 10 Oct. 1804, as A.B., on board the 64, in which ship, under Capts. Chas. Rowley, John Acworth Ommanney. Temple Hardy, John Draper, and the flag of Rear-Admiral Manley Dixon, he continued to serve, on the Cadiz, North Sea, Lisbon, and Baltic stations, nearly the whole time as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, until June, 1811; during which period, in 1807-8, he shared with Capt. Draper in the bombardment of Copenhagen and the blockade of the Russian squadron in the Tagus. The remaining years of the war were passed by Mr. Hamby on