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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Sanderson, John Proctor

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​SANDERSON. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 34; h-p., 7.)
John Proctor Sanderson entered the Navy, 24 Dec. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Meleager 36, Capts. John Broughton and Fred. Warren, employed at first in the North Sea and off Greenland, and then in the West Indies, where he was wrecked, on the Barebush Key, near Port Royal, 30 July, 1808. He continued on the station last named, as Midshipman, in the Griffon 14, Capts. Jones, John Gore, and John Lloyd, until the autumn of 1809; and after further serving on the Home and South American stations in the Crane, Capt. D. Wynter, Indefatigable 44 and Cornwall 74, both commanded by Capt. J. Broughton, Inconstant 36, Capt. Sir Edw. Tucker, and Valiant 74, Capt. Zachary Mudge, was nominated, 3 May, 1815, Acting- Lieutenant of the Tagus 38, Capt. Philip Pipon, with whom he returned to England. He was paid off shortly after his official promotion, which took place 26 July, 1815; and since 13 Aug. 1822 has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Sandom, Robert Maccure

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​SANDOM. (Lieut., 1843. f-p., 14; h-p., 3.)
Robert Maccure Sandom was born 30 Dec. 1814. He is nephew of Capt. Williams Sandom, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 3 March, 1830, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Galatea 42, Capt. Chas. Napier, under whom he served in the Channel, and was present, as Midshipman, during the attack made by Donna Maria’s troops on the islands of St. Michael’s, Fayal, &c. Quitting the Galatea in Jan. 1832, he next, in Oct. of the same year, joined the Malabar 74, Capts. Hon. Josceline Percy and Henry Shovell Marsham, employed at first in the Channel and afterwards in the Mediterranean, whence, in July, 1834, he returned to England. In the following Dec. he was received on board the Racer 16, Capt. Jas. Hope, in which vessel we find him assisting at the capture, 8 March 1836, of the Vigilante slaver, and cruizing for the protection of the fisheries at Newfoundland and on the coast of Labrador. He invalided home from the West Indies on board the Thunder surveying-vessel, Capt. Rich. Owen, in the early part of 1837 and did not again go afloat until March, 1838. He then, having passed his examination in the preceding July, became Mate of the Hastings 72, ​Capt. Fras. Erskine Loch, and in the following month sailed with the Earl of Durham for Quebec. On his arrival he removed to the Niagara 20, commanded on the lakes of Canada by his uncle, Capt. Sandom. During the first 18 months that he was there employed he suffered much from fever and ague. On I April, 1840, he was intrusted with the charge of the Experiment steam-tender; and on 12 July in the same year he assumed, per order of his Captain, the rank of Lieutenant, in which he continued to act until 9 June, 1841. In Feb. 1842, having had the misfortune to shoot off the forefinger and thumb of his right hand, he was under the necessity of invaliding. He went back, however, to the Niagara in the ensuing July, and continued in that vessel until transferred, 1 July, 1843, to the above-named Experiment, commanded at the time by Lieut. Boxer. His appointments since his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 13 Oct. 1843, have been – 17 May, 1844, to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings – 8 July, 1845, to the Vanguard 80, Capt. Geo. Wickens Willes, on the Portsmouth station – 17 Dec. 1845, again to the Excellent, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads – 16 March, 1846, to the Raleigh 50, Commodore Sir Thos. Herbert, fitting for the south-east coast of America, whence he returned about July, 1847 – and, 15 June, 1848, as First, to the Helena 16, Capt. Geo. Woodberry Smith, fitting at Portsmouth.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Sanders, Edwin William

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​SANDERS. (Lieutenant, 1840.)
Edwin William Sanders entered the Navy 11 Dec. 1828; and for his services on the coast of Syria, including the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 4 Nov. 1840. His succeeding appointments were – 15 Dec. 1840, to the Bellerophon 80, Capt. Chas. John Austen, in the Mediterranean – 13 Aug. 1841, a few weeks after the latter ship had been paid off, to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings – 18 Dec. 1841, to the Indus 78, Capt. Sir Jas. Stirling, again in the Mediterranean, whence he returned in 1844 – 5 Feb. 1845, to the Rodney 92, Capt. Edw. Collier, with whom he served on the Home station until superseded in the following Sept. – and, 24 Aug. 1846, as First, to the Bulldog steam-sloop, Capt. Geo. Evan Davis, fitting at Devonport. He has been on half-pay since the early part of 1847. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Thomas, Robert Strickland

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​THOMAS. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 33.)
Robert Strickland Thomas was born 18 Oct. 1787.
This officer entered the Navy, 8 Nov. 18015, as A.B., on board the Princess Charlotte 38, Capt. Geo. Tobin, employed at first on the West India station and next on the coast of Ireland; where he served as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, from March, 1807, until June, 1813, in the Brisk 18, Capts. John Coode and Eyles Mounsher. He then removed to the Créole 36, Capts. Robt. Forbes and Geo Chas. Mackenzie; and in that frigate, of which he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant 24 Jan. 1814, he assisted at the blockade of Cherbourg, and cruized off the coast of Africa. He was paid off in Nov. of the year last mentioned; and on 11 March, 1815, he was advanced to his present rank. Having lost the sense of hearing while serving on the coast of Africa, he has not been since able to seek employment.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Thomas, Robinson

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​THOMAS. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 32.)
Robinson Thomas entered the Navy, 24 Oct. 1804, as a Supernumerary, on board the Triton 32, Capt. Wm. Cashman, lying at Waterford. He cruized afterwards on the coast of Ireland, as Midshipman, in the Helena sloop, Capts. Woodley Losack, Jas. Andrew Worth, and Henry Haynes; and, from Dec. 1810 until Oct. 1815, he was employed on the Mediterranean, North American, and Home stations, as Midshipman, Master’s Mate, and Admiralty Midshipman, in the Romulus troop-ship, Capts. Lord Balgonie and Geo. Wm. Henry Knight, San Domingo 74, flag-ship of Sir John Borlase Warren, Chatham 74, Capt. David Lloyd, Falmouth 20, Capts. G. W. H. Knight and Robt. Worgan Geo. Festing, and Brazen sloop, commanded by the present Sir Jas. Stirling. He then took up a commission bearing date 17 March, 1815; and has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Thomas married, 4 Feb. 1840, Sarah, daughter of J. P. Murphy, Esq., of Stratford, co. Essex.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Thomas, William George

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​THOMAS. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
William George Thomas entered the Navy, 21 May, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Atalante 16, Capt. Joseph Ore Masefield, employed in cruizing off Brest and Rochefort. Joining next, in Aug. 1806, the Néréide 36, Capt. Robt. Corbett, he assisted, in July of the following year, in the unsuccessful attack upon Buenos Ayres, and proceeded subsequently to Bombay, whence he escorted the British Ambassador, Sir Harford Jones, to Bushehr, in the Persian Gulf. On his voyage back he aided in destroying two piratical vessels which had taken, in sight of the Néréide, the Hon.E.I.Co.’s schooner Sylph. After participating as Midshipman in other services he contributed, in Sept. 1809, to the conquest of the town of St. Paul’s, in the Ile de Bourbon, where a French frigate (La Caroline of 46 guns), a brig-of-war, two captured Indiamen, and other vessels, fell into the hands of the British. Into the frigate, whose name, on her being added to the Navy, was changed to Bourbonnaise, Mr. Thomas followed Capt. Corbett, in the ensuing Nov., in the capacity of Master’s Mate. In the summer of 1811, being then in the Scipion 74, under the flag of Hon. Robt. Stopford, he served on shore at the reduction of Batavia. He was nominated, 28 Oct. in the same year, Acting-Lieutenant of the Java 38, Capt. Geo. Scott; and on 13 May, 1812, soon after his return to England, he was officially promoted. From the following Nov. until Aug. 1815 he was employed on the Baltic, North Sea, and North American stations in the Aetna bomb, Capts. Rich. Kenah, Jas. Baynton Gardner, and Fras. Fead. During that period he accompanied the present Sir Jas. Alex. Gordon in his brilliant expedition against Alexandria, witnessed the unsuccessful attempt upon Baltimore, and took an active part in the operations connected with the ottack upon New Orleans. Since he left the Aetna he has been on half-pay.
He is married, and has issue seven children.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Thomond, James

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​THOMOND, G.C.H., Marquess of, formerly LORD JAMES O’BRYEN. (Admiral of the Blue, 1847. f-p., 19; h-p., 45.)
The Right Honourable James Marquess of Thomond is second son of the late Edw. O’Bryen, Esq., a Captain in the Army; and nephew of Murrough, first Marquess of Thomond. He succeeded his eldest brother, as third Marquess, in 1846. A younger brother, Lord Edw. O’Bryen, Captain R.N. (1802), was Private Secretary to Lord Mulgrave during that nobleman’s naval administration; and two others, John and Murrough, were officers in the Army. His Lordship is uncle of Commander Wm. O’Bryen Hoare, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 17 April, 1783, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Hebe, Capts. Geo. Keppell and Edw. Thornbrough, stationed in the Channel. From April, 1786, until July, 1789, he was employed on the coast of North America and in the West Indies as Midshipman (a rating he had before attained) in the Pegasus and Andromeda frigates, both commanded by his late Majesty; under whom he was further, from May, 1790, until promoted in the following Nov. to the rank of Lieutenant, employed, with the Channel fleet, in the Valiant 74. In the course of 1793-4 he joined in succession, on the Home station, the London 98, Capt. Rich. Goodwin Keats, Artois 38, Capt. Lord Chas. Fitzgerald, Active 38, Capt. Thos. Wolley, and Brunswick 74, Capt. Lord C. Fitzgerald. In the latter ship he was present in Cornwallis’ celebrated retreat, 16 and 17 June, 1795. On 5 Dec. 1796, at which period he had been for nearly seven months employed with Sir Edw. Pellew in the Indefatigable 44, he was promoted to the command of the Childers sloop. In that vessel he continued to serve in the Channel until posted, 14 Feb. 1799, into the Thisbe 28. Her he paid off in the course of the same year. He afterwards, from the close of 1800 until 1804, commanded the Emerald 36, on the West India station; he then removed for a very brief period to the Diadem 64; and from Sept. 1813 until Nov. 1815 he served in the Channel in the Warspite 74. In the Emerald he made prize, 24 June, 1803, of L’Enfant Prodigue, French national schooner of 16 guns, the whole of which were thrown overboard during a chase of 72 hours. In the same month he co-operated in the reduction of Ste. Lucie; and in the spring of 1804 he distinguished himself by his intrepidity, and by the indefatigable zeal he displayed in arranging and forwarding the supplies, at the capture of Surinam. He also, while in the Emerald, defeated an expedition projected by the enemy against Antigua. He became a Rear-Admiral 27 May, 1825; a Vice-Admiral 10 Jan. 1837; and a full Admiral 13 May, 1847.
​His Lordship was nominated a G.C.H. 13 May, 1831. He married first, 25 Nov. 1800, Eliza Bridgeman, daughter of Jas. Willyams, Esq., of Carnanton, co. Cornwall; and, that lady dying 14 Feb. 1802, secondly, Jane, daughter of Thos. Ottley, Esq., and relict of Valentine Horsford, Esq., of the island of Antigua. He was again left a widower in 1843. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Thompson, Andrew

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​THOMPSON. (Lieut., 1816. f-p., 15; h-p., 35.)
Andrew Thompson entered the Navy, 7 Jan. 1797, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on borad the Ramillies 74, Capts. Sir Rich. Bickerton and Bartholomew Rowley, with whom he served in the Channel for 16 months. He was next, from Feb. 1807 until wrecked, 8 Oct. 1812, employed at Newfoundland, part of the time as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the Avenger sloop, Capts. Thos. White and Urry Johnson; he was placed, in the course of the following month as a Supernumerary on board the Royal William, Capt. Geo. Fowke, at Spithead; and from Jan. 1813 until Dec. 1815 he was stationed again at Newfoundland and in the West Indies, as Master’s Mate, in the Muros 12, Capts. Thos. Saville Griffenhoofe and Geo. Gostling. In March, 1816, at which period he had been serving for upwards of two months at Deptford in the Dee 24, Capts. John Wm. Andrew and Sam. Chambers, he was presented with a commission dated back to 18 March, 1815. He was appointed Admiralty Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel 25 May, 1842; and from 22 Nov. 1844 until the early part of 1847 was employed in the Victory 104, guard-ship at Portsmouth, Capts. Geo. Moubray and John Pasco. He has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Thomas, Robert (b)

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​THOMAS. (Lieutenant, 1847.)
Robert Thomas passed his examination 11 March, 1845; and since 14 of the same month has been employed in the Terror, Capt. Fras. Rawdon Moira Crozier, in an attempt to ascertain the existence of a N.W. passage. His promotion to the rank of Lieutenant took place 24 April, 1847.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Thomas, Thomas

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​THOMAS. (Retired Commander, 1842. f-p., 13; h-p., 42.)
Thomas Thomas was born at Caermarthen, in Wales. He is brother of M. Thomas, Esq., Deputy Inspector-General of the Ordnance Medical Department at Woolwich; and of the late Lieut. Jas. Thomas, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 15 Sept. 1792, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Europa 50, hearing the broad pendant of Commodore Ford at Jamaica. In 1794 he removed, as Midshipman, to the Active 38; and in that frigate and the Arethusa 38, both commanded by Capt. Thos. Wolley, he served in the North Sea, at Newfoundland, and in the West Indies and Channel until made Lieutenant, 5 Jan. 1799, into the Camilla 20, Capt. Robt. Larkan. In the Arethusa he assisted at the reduction of Ste. Lucie in May, 1796, co-operated also in the suppression of an insurrection among the Caribs in the islands of St. Vincent and Grenada, and after contributing to the conquest of Trinidad and the destruction there of a Spanish squadron was present, 10 Aug. 1797, in an action of thirty minutes, which terminated in the surrender of La Gaieté French corvette of 20 long 8-pounders and 186 men. In the Camilla Mr. Thomas was employed, until April, 1802, on the West India, Home, and Newfoundland stations. In Dec. 1802 the ship was struck by a heavy sea, which carried away her mizen-mast and main-yard, and rendered it necessary that half her guns should be thrown overboard; yet, in this state, she engaged and beat off a French corvette of 22 guns. Mr. Thomas at the time was First-Lieutenant. His last appointments were – 29 Sept. 1803, to the Dart, Capt. Brownrigg, in the North Sea – and 3 June, 1805, and 11 Oct. 1806, to the Loire 38 and Volontaire 38, both commanded by Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland. He was Senior of the Loire when, in company with the Egyptienne frigate, she made prize, 24 Dec. 1805, off Rochefort, of La Libre of 40 guns and 280 men. After he left the Volontaire in Nov. 1806 he did not go afloat. He became a Retired Commander on the Junior List 26 Nov. 1830; and on the Senior 10 Nov. 1842.
He married, in 1808, Jane, sister of the late Lieut.-Colonel Morgan, of the Royal Glamorgan Militia; and has issue. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Thomas, William

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​THOMAS. (Lieut., 1822. f-p., 18; h-p., 21.)
William Thomas entered the Navy, 30 Aug. 1808, as A.B., on board the Inflexible 64, Capts. Hon. Donald Hugh Mackay and Thos. Brown, fitting for the Halifax station; where he removed as Midshipman, in Aug. 1809, to the Junon 38, Capt. John Shortland. In that frigate he was captured, 13 Dec. following, off Guadeloupe, after an heroic resistance of 45 minutes, and a loss of 20 men lulled and 40 wounded, by a French squadron, consisting of the 40-gun frigates Renommée and Clorinde and armées-en-flûte the Loire and Seine, carrying each 20 guns. With the two former the Junon maintained a yard-arm-and-yard-arm conflict until she was on the point of sinking. On being restored to liberty at the peace of 1814, Mr. Thomas successively joined, on the West India station, the Swiftsure 74, Capts. Arden Adderley and Wm. Henry Webley, and Venerable 74. In the latter ship, which bore the flag of Sir Philip Chas. Durham, he aided, in 1815, in securing Martinique to Louis XVIII. and in reducing Guadeloupe. He was subsequently, from 5 May, 1816, until 19 July, 1819, employed at Leith as Admiralty-Midshipman and Mate in the Nimrod 18, Capts. John Macpherson Ferguson, John Windham Dalling, and Chas. Nelson; he then removed to the Iphigenia 42, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Robt. Mends on the coast of Africa; and on 25 April, 1822, he was nominated, on that station, Acting-Lieutenant of the Myrmidon, Capt. Henry John Leeke. Soon after his official promotion, which took place 26 Aug. in the same year, he returned to England. His appointments have since been – 18 Oct. 1824, for less than two years, to the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary Lieutenant of the Ramillies 74, Capt. Hugh Pigot – 8 April, 1843, for a few months, to the post of Admiralty Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel – and 18 Nov. 1845, to the Transport service, in which, deducting an interval in 1847, he has since remained.
Lieut. Thomas is married, and has issue.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Thomas, William Sidney

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​THOMAS. (Commander, 1842.)
William Sidney Thomas entered the Navy 12 March, 1820; passed his examination in 1826; and was made Lieutenant, 13 May, 1828, into the Asia 84, flag-ship of Sir Pulteney Malcolm in the Mediterranean; where, in the following Sept., he removed to the Revenge 76, Capts. Norborne Thompson and Hon. Chas. Orlando Bridgeman. He returned home about the close of 1830; and was subsequently appointed – 3 Oct. 1831, to the Melville 74, flagship of Sir John Gore in the East Indies – 3 Aug. 1833, as First, to the Alligator 28, Capt. Geo. Robt. Lambert, on the same station – 15 Aug. 1835, to the command of the Algerine 10, also in the East Indies, where he was superseded in March, 1839 – 24 Sept. 1840, to the command of the Ferret 10, on the coast of Africa – and 18 Dec. 1841, to the Royal George yacht, Capt. Lord Adolphus Fitz- Clarence. He was advanced to his present rank 7 March, 1842. He has since been on half-pay.
Commander Thomas married, in July, 1843, Thomasine, daughter of the late Capt. Henry Haynes, R.N. (1814). Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Norris, Joseph

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​NORRIS. (Lieutenant, 1812. f-p., 9; h-p., 33.)
Joseph Norris was born 16 Aug. 1789. This officer entered the Navy, 10 Nov. 1805, as Midshipman, on board the Apollo 3S, Capt. Edw. Fellowes, with whom he removed, in July, 1808, to the Conqueror 74, and continued to serve, chiefly in the Mediterranean, until made Lieutenant, 22 Feb. 1812, into the Polyphemus 64, Capt. Peter John Douglas, on the West India station, whither he proceeded in the Jason 32, Capt. Hon. Jas. Wm. King. While in the Apollo, besides assisting at the cutting out of many of the enemy’s vessels on the coast of Calabria, he was present in 1807 at the landing of the troops under Major-General Fraser in Egypt, where he witnessed the surrender of Alexandria, and had command of a boat on Lake Etko at the reduction of Rosetta. During the term of his servitude in the Conqueror he came into frequent contact with the enemy in the neighbourhood of Toulon; on one occasion in particular, 20 July, 1810, when that ship, in company with the Warspite and Ajax 74’s, rescued in a most gallant manner the Euryalus frigate and Shearwater brig from being captured by a powerful division of the enemy’s fleet, consisting of six sail of the line and four frigates. We also find him, 11 Sept. 1811, commanding one of three boats under the orders of Lieut. Rich. Howell Fleming, at the destruction, in noon day, of an armed vessel chained from her masts to the shore, at Aras, in the gulf of Genoa, where the British encountered so fierce an opposition that 2 of their number were killed and 9 wounded. During the passage home of the Polyphemus with convoy in the autumn of 1812, Lieut. Norris was placed in command, as Prize-Master, of the James Maddison captured American schooner, of 12 guns. In that vessel, on the merchantmen being dispersed in a gale, he succeeded in re-collecting 20 of them; the whole of which, after having beaten off an American privateer of superior force, he conducted in safety to England, receiving, on his arrival, the thanks of the Committee at Lloyd’s. His last appointments were, 2 Feb. 1813 and 17 Oct. 1814, to the Persian and Mercurius sloops, Capts. Chas. Bertram and Thos. Renwick. In the Persian he was wrecked, as detailed in our memoir of Capt. Bertram, on the Silver Keys, in the West Indies, 16 June, 1813: and in the Mercurius he was actively employed off the coast of France during the war of a hundred days. He has been on half-pay since 18 Sept. 1815.
He married, 1 Jan. 1818, Ann Grigg, sister of Jas. Cassell, Esq., First-Lieutenant R.M., and niece of Lieut.-Colonel Cassell, of the same corps, by whom he has issue four children.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Nops, John George

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​NOPS. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 24; h-p., 28.)
John George Nops entered the Navy, in Sept. 1795, on board the Juste 84, Capt. Hon. Thos. Pakenham, with whom he served in the Channel until the mutiny of 1797 at Spithead. He then became Midshipman of the Gibraltar 80, Capt. Wm. Hancock Kelly, off Cadiz; and, on 10 April, 1802, after a servitude of three years on the Irish station in the Hussar 38, Capts. Lord Viscount Garlics and Wm. Brown, he was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant. Being next, in Sept. of the latter year, appointed to La Déterminée frigate, armée en flûte, Capt. Alex. Becher, he was wrecked in that vessel, off Jersey, 24 March, 1803. He served during the 18 following months In the Channel on board the Dreadnought 98, flag-ship of Hon. Wm. Cornwallis, and Neptune 98, Capts. Edw. O’Brien Drury and Sir Thos. Williams; and he afterwards, between 25 Oct. 1804 and 11 Sept. 1810 (at which period the date of his commission was altered), held successive command of the Defender gun-brig, Princess Augusta cutter, Turbulent gun-brig, Poll cutter, Defender again, and Hardy gun-brig, on the Home, Baltic, and Cadiz stations. During his original command of the Defender he was wounded on the coast of France in 1806, and in consequence presented with a gratuity from the Patriotic Fund. His succeeding appointments were – 7 Nov. 1810, for three years, to the Impress service in London – 18 Feb. 1814, to the Achille 74, Capt. Aiskew Paffard Hollis, on the Brazilian station, whence he returned in Oct. 1815 – for a few ​days in Dec. 1S17, to the Cadmus 10, Capt. John Gedge, lying at Sheerness – and, 19 March, 1822, to the command, which he retained until 5 March, 1827, of the Signal station on Kingston Hill. He was admitted to the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital 9 July, 1842.
Lieut. Nops is at present employed in the Excise service. Agent – Fred. Dufaur.