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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/West, William Wade

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​WEST. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 18; h-p., 32.)
William Wade West entered the Navy, 16 Oct. 1797, as A.B., on board the Rover sloop, Capt. Geo. Irwin, in which vessel, and, as Midshipman, in the Dasher, Capt. Geo. Tobin, he continued employed on the coast of North America and West Indies until Jan. 1801. He joined next, in Nov. 1803, in the capacity of Master’s Mate, the Foudroyant 80, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. Graves in the Channel; where, again in the West Indies, as also on the coasts of Spain and Portugal and in the North Sea, he served as Master, from 16 May, 1804, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 11 April, 1810, in the Merlin sloop, Capt. Edw. Pelham Brenton, Latona 38, Capt. Thos. Le Marchant Gosselin, Pomona frigate, Capt. Fred. Langford, Success 32, Capt. John Ayscough, Audacious 74, Capt. T. Le M. Gosselin, and San Domingo 74, bearing the flag of Sir Rich. Strachan. In the ship last mentionen, to which, on the occasion of his promotion, he was re-appointed, he took part in the operations connected with the expedition to the Walcheren. He finally left her in June, 1811. He was next, until Nov. 1814, employed, on the Home, Baltic, and Cape of Good Hope stations, in the Berwick 74, Capt. Jas. Macnamara, Mars 74, Capt. Henry Raper, Devastation bomb, Capt. Thos. Alexander, Ville de Paris 110 and Boyne 98, both commanded by Capt. Geo. Burlton, Laura 38, Capt. Hon. Granville Leveson Proby, and Barracouta sloop, Capt. Chas. Hawkey. From April, 1815, until May, 1816, he was engaged in raising seamen at Hull; and from 1817 until 1819 he was stationed on the coast of South America in the Blossom 24, Capt. Fred. Hickey. He has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/West, Balchen Folkes

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​WEST. (Commander, 1843. f-p., 22; h-p., 4.)
Balchen Folkes West was born 12 Jan. 1806, and died 6 March, 1845, while belonging, as stated beneath, to the Vindictive 50. He was second son of Gilbert Harvey West, Esq., late of Her Majesty’s Treasury, by Fanny Mary, eldest daughter of Sir Martin Browne Folkes, Bart., M.P.; nephew of the late Capt. Henry West, R.N., of Sir Edw. West, Kt., Recorder of Bombay, and of John Martin West, Esq., who married Lady Maria Walpole, daughter of Horatio, second Earl of Orford; and cousin of Admiral Sir John West, K.C.B. Among his ancestors was the famous Sir Fras. Drake. He was a connexion, also, of the late Admiral Sir W. T. Lake, K.C.B.
This officer entered the Navy, 31 July, 1819, as Midshipman, on board the Nimrod 18, in which vessel, commanded at first by his relative, Capt. Chas. Nelson, and next by Capt. Wm. Rochfort, he was for four years and a half chiefly employed on the coasts of Scotland and Ireland. He then served for rather more than three years as Midshipman and Mate (he passed his examination 27 Oct. 1825) in the Menai 26, Capt. Houston Stewart, at Halifax and at Woolwich; and on joining, at the end of that period, the Hecla bomb, Capt. Wm. Edw. Parry, he sailed on a voyage of discovery to the Polar regions. In Nov. 1827, having returned to England, he was appointed to the Briton 46, Capt. Hon. Wm. Gordon, employed on particular service. From her he removed, in Aug. 1828, to the Thetis 46, Capts. Arthur Batt Bingham and Sam. Burgess, of which frigate he was Acting-Lieutenant when she struck on a rock, near Cape Frio, and was wrecked 5 Dec. 1830. On that occasion, by jumping, with the gunner and three or four men, on the rock, after many had perished in the attempt, he proved instrumental in saving the lives of the Captain, the officers, and upwards of 200 of the crew. For his conduct he received a letter of thanks from the Commander-in-Chief, Sir Thos. Baker, and was presented, immediately after the court-martial, with a commission bearing date 28 April, 1831. His succeeding appointments were – 20 July, 1832, to the Scout 18, Capts. Wm. Hargood, Hon. Geo. Grey, and Wm. Holt, in the Mediterranean – 4 Nov. 1835, as Senior Lieutenant, to the Harrier 18, Capt. Wm. Henry Hallowell Carew, fitting for South America, where he was superseded in Dec. 1836 – 10 April, 1839, as Second, to the Benbow 72, Capt. Houston Stewart, of which ship, part of the force employed in 1840 on the coast of Syria and at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre, he became First-Lieutenant – and, 16 July, 1842, in the capacity last mentioned, after a few weeks of half-pay, to the Magicienne 24, Capt. Rich. Laird Warren, again in the Mediterranean. He was promoted to the rank of Commander 14 Sept. 1843; and in the early part of 1845 he was nominated Second Captain of the Vindictive 50, fitting for the flag of Sir Fras. Wm. Austen, Commander-in-Chief on the North America and West India station.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Westbrook, Edmund Barford

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​WESTBROOK. (Commander, 1839. f-p., 34; h-p., 10.)
Edmund Barford Westbrook entered the Navy, 27 March, 1803, as a Volunteer, on board the Puissant 74, Capts. John Irwin, Robt. Hall, and Chas. Wm. Paterson; in which ship and her tenders he was for eight years and nine months employed at Spithead and off Guernsey. He served next, from Dec. 1811 until Sept. 1815, as Midshipman (a rating he had attained in Nov. 1804) and as Master’s Mate and Acting-Master in the Doterel sloop, Capts. Wm. Westcott Daniel and John Knatchbull, on the Home, Lisbon, African, West India, and North American stations; and in Nov. 1815, at which period he had been for a few weeks Admiralty-Midshipman of the Rifleman 18, Capts. Henry Edw. Napier and Geo. Bennet Allen, he was presented with a commission bearing date 6 July preceding. His succeeding appointments were – 20 March, 1822, to the Coast Blockade, in which service he continued as a Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Severn 50 and Ramillies 74, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot, until 1827 – 21 July, 1828, to the Windsor Castle 76, Capt. Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie, employed on the Home, Mediterranean, Cork, and Lisbon stations – and 20 July, 1831, to the charge, which he retained until advanced to his present rank 1 Jan. 1839, of a station in the Coast Guard. He served again in the Coast Guard, as an Inspecting-Commander, from 5 Nov. 1839 until the early part of 1845.
Commander Westbrook is Senior of 1839. Agent – Fred. Dufaur.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/West, Joseph

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​WEST. (Commander, 1841. f-p., 19; h-p., 21.)
Joseph West entered the Navy 1 June, 1807, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the Téméraire 98, Capt. Sir Chas. Hamilton, lying at Portsmouth, and sailed, towards the close of the same year, in the Sapphire, Capt. Geo. Davies, for the East Indies, where he became Midshipman, in May, 1808, and July, 1811, of the Piémontaise 38, Capt. Chas. Foote, and Phoenix 36, Capt. Jas. Bawen. While attached to the Piémontaise, of which frigate he was for 14 months Master’s Mate, he was employed on shore in 1808 in co-operation with the army at Quilon on the coast of Malabar, and was twice wounded in cutting out gun-boats from Bantam, in the island of Java. In 1809 he was present in an attack upon a body of Malay pirates; and at the celebrated capture, in Aug. 1810, of the island of Banda Neira, he was one of those who escaladed the walls of the castle of Belgria. In 1811 he assisted at the capture of Palambang and Sambas. Returning to England in 1813 in the Bucephalus frigate, Capt. Barrington Reynolds, he joined, in the spring of 1814, the Newcastle 50, Capt. Lord Geo. Stuart, and Meteor bomb and Furieuse 36, Capts. Sam. Roberts and Wm. Mounsey – the two last on the coast of North America; where, after having accompanied an expedition to Penobscot Bay, he was made Lieutenant, 6 July, 1814, into the Acasta 40, Capt. Alex. Robt. Kerr. That ship however he never joined. He was employed next, between Oct. 1814 and Sept. 1815, in the Fantôme 18, Capt. Thos. Sykes (under whom he was wrecked on his passage from St. John’s, New Brunswick, to Halifax 24 Nov. 1814) Bulwark 74, Capt. Farmery Predam Epworth, Furieuse again, Capt. Mounsey, and Bann 20, Capt. Thos. Whinyates. His succeeding appointments were – 12 June, 1824, to the Pylades 18, Capt. Fras. Fead, in which vessel, after cruizing with an experimental squadron, he proceeded to the West Indies, whence he returned, we believe, in 1825 – 18 May, 1827, as First-Lieutenant, for upwards of three years, to the Tweed 20, Capt. Lord Henry John Spencer Churchill, at the Cape of Good Hope – 4 June, 1834, to the command, which he retained until the summer of 1836, of the African steamer, on the Home and Mediterranean stations – and, 14 May, 1838, to the command of the Volcano, another steamer. In the latter vessel, which he paid off in the early part of 1841, but recommissioned 23 Aug. following, he was employed on the North America and West India stations. He attained the rank of Commander 23 Nov. 1841; and as such he served in the Hecate steam-sloop of 240 horse-power, on the coast of Africa, from 11 June, 1845, until paid off in the spring of 1847.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/West, Henry (b)

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​WEST. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Henry West passed his examination 6 Sept. 1842; and, after having served at Portsmouth in the Excellent gunnery-ship, Capts. Sir Thos. Hastings and Henry Ducie Chads, was appointed in that capacity to the Nimrod 20, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres, fitting for the coast of Africa; where he continued employed as Lieutenant (commission dated 29 June, 1846) in the Actaeon 26, Capt. Geo. Mansel, Britomart 8, Capt. Wm. Chas. Chamberlain, and Rapid 8, Capt. Edw. Dixon – in the two last as Senior – until the early part of 1849.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/West, James Banks

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​WEST. (Commander, 1846.)
James Banks West entered the Navy 7 March, 1821; passed his examination in 1827; and obtained his first commission 25 June, 1831. His succeeding appointments were – 27 Sept. 1837, to the Tyne 26, Capt. John Townshend – 15 May, 1838, to the Beacon surveying-vessel, Capt. Thos. Graves – 29 Dec. 1840, as First-Lieutenant (a post he had filled for a year on board the Beacon) to the Hastings 72, Capt. John Lawrence – 30 Aug. 1841, in a similar capacity, to the Aigle 24, Capt. Lord Clarence Edw. Paget – and 11 Sept. 1846, again as Senior (after about 12 months of half-pay) to the America 50., Capt. Hon. John Gordon, lying at Devonport. All the above ships, with the exception of the one last mentioned, were stationed in the Mediterranean. Since 12 Aug. 1848, Commander West, who attained his present rank 9 Nov. 1846, has been serving as Second-Captain in the Southampton 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Barrington Reynolds at the Cape of Good Hope. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/West, Alexander George

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​WEST. (Commander, 1848.)
Alexander George West, born 12 Feb. 1821, is second son of Admiral Sir John West, K.C.B.
This officer entered the Navy in 1833; and while Midshipman, in 1840, of the Benbow 72, Capt. Houston Stewart, commanded that ship’s pinnace in the attack upon Tortosa, and was present at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre. He passed his examination 27 Aug. 1841; served as Mate, at the Nore and at Portsmouth, in the Camperdown 104, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. Brace, Excellent gunnery-ship, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, and Firebrand steam-frigate, Capt. Armar Lowry Corry obtained his first commission 22 Oct. 1844- was appointed, 14 and 27 Dec. following, to the Superb 80, Capt. A. L. Corry, and Vindictive 60, flag-ship of Sir Fras. Wm. Austen, Commander-in-Chief iS North America and the West Indies; and from 19 July, 1845, until advanced to his present rank 2 May 1848, was employed in the Queen 110, as Flag-Lieutenant to his father at Devonport.
Commander West married, 20 June, 1848, Jane only surviving daughter of the Rev. J. Inman, D.D., of Southsea, Hants.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hopkins, Charles

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​HOPKINS. (Lieut., 1827. f-p., 18; h-p., 18.)
Charles Hopkins (b) was born 7 July, 1796, at Milford, co. Pembroke.
​This officer entered the Navy, 13 April, 1811, as a Boy, on board the Niemen 38, Capt. Sir Michael Seymour, employed in the Bay of Biscay, where, accompanying the same officer as Midshipman in May, 1812, into the Hannibal 74, he assisted, in March, 1814, at the capture, we believe, of the French 40-gun frigate Sultâne. Soon after that event he rejoined the Niemen, then commanded by Capt. Sam. Pym; and cruized until May, 1815, on the North American station. During the next six months we find him employed off the coast of Ireland in the Myrtle 20, Capt. Arthur Batt Bingham. He then served for a period of three years with Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres of the Tiber 38, on the Channel and Newfoundland stations; after which he became in succession attached to the Northumberland 74, Capts. Sir Michael Seymour and Thos. Harvey, Severn 40, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch, Northumberland again, Capts. Thos. Harvey and Thos. Jas. Maling, and Briton, Blonde, and Sybille 38’s, Capts. Murray Maxwell, Lord Byron, and Fras. Augustus Collier. The three latter ships were employed on the South American, Pacific, and African stations; the others on the Home. On 30 April, 1827, Mr. Hopkins, who had passed his examination in June, 1817, and had served for a considerable time in the capacities of Admiralty-Midshipman and Mate, was at length promoted to the rank of Lieutenant; but he did not leave the Sybille until the following Oct. His last appointment was, 23 April, 1830, to the Prince Regent 120, bearing the flags of Admirals Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood, Sir John Poo Beresford, and Wm. Parker. In that ship he served at the Nore, then took part in an experimental cruize under Sir Edw. Codrington, and eventually proceeded off Lisbon, whence he returned home and was paid off in Feb. 1832.
Lieut. Hopkins married, 18 Dec. 1832, Miss Sarah Ledsam, of Birmingham, co. Warwick.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hore, Cavendish Bradstreet

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​HORE. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Cavendish Bradstreet Hore is youngest son of Walter Hore, Esq., of Harperstown, Wexford (who is a magistrate for that county, and served the office of High Sheriff in 1828), by the Hon. Mary Elizabeth Thornton Ruthven, daughter of the late Lord Ruthven. Two of his brothers, William and Walter, are officers in the Royal and Indian armies; and his uncle, Samuel Bradstreet Hore, a Commander R.N.
This officer passed his examination 7 Feb. 1843; and after an intermediate servitude, on the North American, West India, and Channel stations, on board the Illustrious 72, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Adam, and Vanguard 80, Capt. Geo. Wickens Willes, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 15 Jan. 1846. Since 25 of the following month he has been employed in the Pacific on board the Carysfort 26, Capt. Geo. Henry Seymour.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hornby, Frederick John

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​HORNBY. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Frederick John Hornby passed his examination 5 May, 1841; and, until March, 1845, was employed, as Mate, in the Belleisle 72, and Vindictive 50, both commanded by Capt. John Toup Nicolas, Magnificent 72, Commodore Hon. Henry Dilkes Byng, and Formidable 84, Capts. Sir Chas. Sullivan and Geo. Fred. Rich, flag-ship for some time of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen – on the Home, Jamaica, and Mediterranean stations. He has been since serving in the Terror discovery-ship, Capt. Fras. Rawdon Moira Crozier, in an attempt to ascertain the existence of a north-west passage through Lancaster Sound and Bering Strait. His commission bears date 21 May, 1846.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hopkinson, Simon

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​HOPKINSON. (Commander, 1821. f-p., 22; h-p., 34.)
Simon Hopkinson entered the Navy, in June, 1795, as A.B., on board the Magnificent 74, Capt. Rich. Onslow, lying at Spithead, from which ship he was discharged in the following Sept. In June, 1795, he re-embarked on board the Lynx 20, Capt. Chas. Rowley, with whom, after serving, as Master’s Mate, in the Raison and Hussar, he sailed for the West Indies in the Unité 38. From that frigate, on the books of which his name was borne for four years, he removed, in Sept. 1800, with Capt. John Poo Beresford, who had latterly commanded her, to the Diana 38, also on the West India station, where, subsequently to the reduction of St. Bartholomew, St. Martin, &c., he joined the Leviathan 74, bearing the flag of Sir John Thos. Duckworth. He was made Lieutenant, 18 July, 1801, into the Hawk sloop, Capt. Benj. Walker, and, leaving her in Sept. 1802, was afterwards appointed – 16 Aug. 1803, to the St. Albans 64, Capt. John Temple – 14 Sept. 1804, to the Ruby 64, Capts. Chas. Rowley, John Temple, Thos. Masterman Hardy, John Draper, and Robt. Hall, in which ship he served off the ports of Cadiz and Lisbon, attended the expedition to Copenhagen, and, until he invalided in April, 1810, was further employed in the Baltic, under the flag of Rear-Admiral Manley Dixon – 27 Aug. 1810, to the Vengeur 74, Capt. Thos. Brown, attached to the force in the Channel – 28 Dec. 1810, to the command of the Tickler cutter, off Flushing, where he continued until Aug. 1815 – and 13 Aug. 1818, to the Pike. He retained the command of the latter vessel, on the Home station, until advanced to his present rank, 19 July, 1821; and has since been on half-pay.
Commander Hopkinson has a daughter, Caroline, who married, 29 Aug. 1836, Lieut.-Colonel Bowyer, C.B. Agent – J. Hinxman.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hopkins, Robert

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​HOPKINS. (Lieut., 1842. f-p., 17; h-p., 1.)
Robert Hopkins entered the Navy 12 Feb. 1829; passed his examination 20 Aug. 1835; and, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 15 Oct. 1842, served as Mate on board the Castor 36, and North Star 28, both commanded by Lord John Hay, Savage 10, Lieut.-Commander John Harrison Bowker, Caledonia 120, bearing the flag at Plymouth of Sir Graham Moore, and Warspite 50, Capt. Lord John Hay. He was employed in the three former ships on the coast of Spain, during the operations connected with the civil war in 1835-40; and in the Warspite, he was attached to the force in North America and the West Indies. His appointments, subsequently to his promotion, were, on the last mentioned and the Mediterranean stations 29 April, 1843, and 24 July, 1844, as Additional Lieutenant, to the Illustrious 72, and Formidable 84, flag-ships of Sir Chas. Adam and Sir Edw. W. C. K. Owen – 1 Oct. 1845, as Senior, to the Siren 16, Capt. Harry Edm. Edgell – and 10 April, 1846, to the Tyne 26, Capt. Wm. Nugent Glascock. He was paid off from the latter vessel in the early part of 1847.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hore, Henry Cavendish

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​HORE. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 15; h-p., 29.)
Henry Cavendish Hore, born 31 March, 1790, is brother of Commanders S. B. and J. S. Hore, R.N.
This officer entered the Royal Naval Academy, in July, 1803, and, having gone through a distinguished course of studies, embarked, in March, 1807, as Midshipman, on board the Diamond 38, Capt. Thos. Elphinstone. Removing, in the following month, to the Naiad 38, Capt. Thos. Dundas, he served in the boats of that frigate on two successful cutting-out affairs; after which, while under the late Sir Robt. Stopford in the Spencer, Caesar, and Scipion, ships-of-the-line, he attended the expedition to Copenhagen, witnessed the destruction of the French fleet in Aix Roads, served on shore during the operations against Flushing, and ultimately proceeded to the Cape of Good Hope; where, a few days after his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 29 March, 1811, he removed to the Harpy sloop, Capt. Henderson Bain. In the proximate attack upon the island of Java we find him commanding a detachment, and receiving a slight wound in the left knee, at the storming and capture of Fort Cornelis. Between Jan. 1812 and March, 1814, he again served at the Cape as First of the Lion 64, flag-ship of Rear-Admirals Stopford and Chas. Tyler. His next appointment was, in Oct. of the latter year, to the Crescent 38, Capt. John Quilliam, on the West India station, whence, after he had for some time officiated as Aide-de-Camp to Lieut.-General Sir Jas. Leith, the military Commander-in-Chief, he came home and was paid off in Sept. 181.5. In 1821, Lieut. Hore entered the Water Guard Service, in which he continued three years, and particularly signalized himself by his efforts in the cause of the Revenue. His health at the expiration of that period being materially impaired from the effects of over-exertion, he resigned his appointment. He has not been since employed.
He married, 15 Sept. 1835, Clarissa Isabella, daughter of John Christopher Beauman, Esq., of Hyde Park, co. Wexford, and niece of Rear-Admiral Fras. Beauman, by whom he has issue three children.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hopkins, Edward Jervis

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​HOPKINS. (Lieutenant, 1826.)
Edward Jervis Hopkins entered the Navy 26 Sept. 1809; passed his examination in 1815; was made Lieutenant, 10 July, 1826, into the Tweed 28, Capt. Fred. Hunn, on the Jamaica station, whence he invalided; and on 18 Sept. 1828, joined the Shannon 46, Capt. Benj. Clement, from which ship he was superseded at his own request.
He married, in 1838, Elizabeth, widow of the late Isaac Field, Esq. Agent – J. Chippendale.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hore, Edward George

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​HORE. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Edward George Hore, born 17 Sept. 1823, is second son of Commander Herbert Wm. Hore, R.N. (1814), who died 10 Jan. 1823, by Eliza, daughter and co-heir of Geo. Curling, Esq., of West Hatch, co. Essex. He is brother of the present Herbert Fras. Hore, Esq., of Pole Hore, co. Wexford, and is the descendant of a very ancient family.
This officer (who was officially noticed for his services on the coast of Syria, where, as Midshipman of the Castor 36, Capt. Edw. Collier, he assisted in planting the Ottoman flag, and in destroying the guns on the ramparts of Caiffa) passed his examination in Aug. 1842. Between that date and his promotion to the rank he now holds, which took place 15 Jan. 1846, we find him employed as Mate, on the Mediterranean and North America and West India stations, in the Queen 110, flag-ship of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, Devastation steam-sloop, Capt. Wm. Hewgill Kitchen, and Vindictive 50, bearing the flag of Sir Fras. Wm. Austen. He continued in the Vindictive, in the capacity of Additional Lieutenant, until appointed, 13 Oct. 1846, to the Viper brigantine, which vessel he is now commanding on the station last-mentioned.