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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Pigot, Richard Henry Holms

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​PIGOT. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 17; h-p., 34.)
Richard Henry Holms Pigot, born 20 July, 1787, is son of the late John Hollis Pigot, Esq., M.D., of Derby.
This officer entered the Navy, 20 June, 1796, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board La Pomone 40, Commodore Sir John Borlase Warren, under whom, while cruizing with a squadron on the coast of France, he aided at the capture of many of the enemy’s armed and other vessels, particularly of the frigates Andromaque and Calliope. Continuing employed with Sir J. B. Warren until Sept. 1800, he successively followed him, during that period, into the Canada 74, Téméraire 98, and Renown 74. In the Canada he witnessed the defeat, 12 Oct. 1798, of a French squadron under Commodore Bompart, intended for the invasion of Ireland; and when Midshipman of the Renown, having first accompanied the expedition to Ferrol, he assisted, 29 Aug. 1800, in the boats of a squadron, 20 in number, commanded by Lieut. Henry Burke, at the cutting out, close to the batteries in Vigo Bay, of La Guêpe privateer, of 18 guns and 161 men; which vessel, 25 of whose people were killed and 40 wounded, was, in 15 minutes, boarded and carried, with a loss to the British of 3 seamen and 1 marine killed, 3 Lieutenants, 12 seamen, and 5 marines wounded, and 1 seaman missing. On leaving the Renown in Sept. 1800, Mr. Pigot removed to the Cynthia 18, Capt. Jas. Halves. He went back to the former ship in the following Nov., but, rejoining Capt. Hawes, in Aug. 1801, on board the Camelion 18, continued to serve with him in that vessel and the Roebuck 44, on the Mediterranean station, until April, 1802. After an attachment of three years and a half, on Home service, to the Clyde 38, Capt. John Larmour, Winchelsea, Lieut.-Commander D. Pope, and Moucheron 16, Capt. Jas. Hawes, he was nominated, 13 March, 1806, Sub-Lieutenant of the Adder gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Molyneux Shuldham. He was made full Lieutenant, 22 Oct. in the latter year, into the Kangaroo 18, Capt. John Baker, lying in the Downs; andsubsequently appointed – 14 Nov. 1807, to the Swiftsure 74, bearing the flag of Sir J. B. Warren at Halifax – 27 May, 1811, as Senior, to the Druid frigate, Capts. Thos. Searle and Fras. Stanfell, in which ship he served at the sieges of Cadiz and Tarifa – 31 Dec. 1812, as a Supernumerary, to the San Juan 74, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Chas. Vinicombe Penrose at Gibraltar – and, 31 March, 1814, after 12 months of half-pay, to the San Domingo 74, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir J. B. Warren on the coast of North America. Since the attainment of his present rank, 31 May, 1814, he has been on half-pay. During the war Commander Pigot was often engaged in cutting out the enemy’s vessels. He married, in 1838, Catherine, daughter of the Rev. J. Parsons, Rector of Cossington, Derby, by whom he has had issue one daughter.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Pilch, Robert

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​PILCH. (Commander, 1813. f-p., 25; h-p., 39.)
Robert Pilch died in 1846.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1783, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Thetis frigate, Capt. John Blankett, with whom he was for four years employed in the Mediterranean. With the exception of a brief attachment, in 1790, to the Prince 98, bearing the flag of Sir John Jervis in the Channel, he did not again go afloat until 1794. He then joined the Victorious and Venerable 74’s, both under the orders of Sir John Orde; whom, in 1795, he followed as Master’s Mate into the Prince George 98, commanded subsequently by Capt. Wm. Edge. Becoming attached next to the Glory 98 and Thunderer 74, each bearing the flag of Sir Hugh Cloberry Christian, he assisted, in the latter ship, at the reduction of Ste. Lucie in May, 1796. Being confirmed a Lieutenant in the Thunderer by commission dated 22 Dec. 1796, he continued to serve in her on the Jamaica station, under Capts. Jas. Bowen, Wm. Ogilvie, John Loring, John Cochet, John Crawley, Temple Hardy, Robt. Mends, Wm. Henry Bayntun, and Henry Vansittart, until June, 1801. His subsequent appointments were – 20 July, 1801, to the Bellerophon 74, Capts. Lord Garlies and John Loring, employed at first in the Channel and afterwards in the West Indies, where, in command of the launches of that ship and the Elephant 74, he captured, 23 Nov. 1803, under a very smart fire from the enemy’s great guns and musketry, the French national schooner La Découverte, mounting 6 long 6-pounders and 6 swivels, with a complement of 52 men, lying in the Caracol Passage, near Cape François, St. Domingo – 1 Nov. 1804, to the Glory 98, flag-ship of Rear-Admirals Sir John Orde and Chas. Stirling off Cadiz and in the Channel, and, under the latter officer, part of Sir Robt. Calder’s fleet in the action off Cape Finisterre 22 July, 1805 – 22 July and 7 Dec. 1806, to the Sampson and Diadem 64’s, each bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Stirling, with whom, subsequently to the capture of Monte Video in Feb. 1807, he proceeded to the Cape of Good Hope – 13 June, 1808, again to the Bellerophon 74, Capt. Sam. Warren, stationed in the North Sea and Baltic, on which latter station, after having taken possession, with the boats, of three vessels, he made a dash at, and in the most gallant manner carried, 19 June, 1809, one of four batteries by which they had been covered, mounting 4 24-pounders and garrisoned by 103 men, a service that elicited the acknowledgments of the Admiralty – and 4 Sept. 1810, and 17 June, 1813, to the President 38 and Blenheim 74, likewise commanded by Capt. Warren, the former at the reduction of Java, the latter in the North Sea. He was advanced to the rank of Commander 4 Dec. 1813, and not afterwards employed. Agents-Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Pilch, William

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​PILCH, K.W. (Lieutenant, 1814. f-p., 31; h-p., 12.)
William Pilch entered the Navy, 4 Oct. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Bellerophon 74, Capts. John Loring, John Cooke, and Edward Rotheram. In Dec. 1805, after having shared in the battle of Trafalgar, he removed to the Glory 98, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Chas. Stirling, with whom he continued employed in the Sampson and Diadem 64’s, on the Home, North American, and Cape of Good Hope stations, until April, 1808. In the ship last mentioned he served as Midshipman at the capture of Monte Video in Feb. 1807. On leaving her he joined the Defiance 74, Capt. Hon. Henry Hotham; previously to following whom, in Sept. 1810, into the Northumberland 74, we find him present with a squadron under Rear-Admiral Hon. Robt. Stopford, at the destruction, 24 Feb. 1809, of three French frigates under ​the batteries of Sable d’Olonne, on the coast of France, after a contest in which the Defiance, added to severe damages experienced in her sails and rigging, sustained a loss of 2 men killed and 25 wounded. In the Northumberland he assisted, 22 May, 1812, in company with the Growler gun-brig, in destroying, at the entrance of L’Orient, the French 40-gun frigates L’Arienne and L’Andromaque, and 16-gun brig Mamelouck; whose united fire, conjointly with that of a heavy battery, killed 5 and wounded 28 of the Northumberland’s people. In Jan. 1813 Mr. Pilch removed to the Valiant 74, Capt. Robt. Dudley Oliver. Rejoining Capt. Hotham, however, in the following March, he continued to serve with him from that period until April, 1815, on the coast of North America, in the San Domingo -and Asia 74’s and Tonnant 80, flag-ships of Sir John Borlase Warren and Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, Forth 40, and Superb 74. His promotion took place 24 Sept. 1814; and from 28 Feb. 1827 until appointed, in 1848, a Naval Knight of Windsor, he held command of a station in the Coast Guard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Pinhorn, William

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​PINHORN. (Lieut., 1818. f-p., 19; h-p., 17.)
William Pinhorn died 23 July, 1845, at Sunderland, in his 48th year.
This officer entered the Navy, 21 Nov. 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Leda 36, Capt. Geo. Sayer, with whom he continued actively employed in the East Indies as Midshipman, and the last nine months as Acting-Lieutenant, until Dec. 1816 – assisting during that period at the reduction of Java and in a desperate attack made upon the pirates of Sambas in the island of Borneo. From March, 1817, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 20 Jan. 1818, he served with Capt. Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer in the Severn 40 and Ganymede 26, on the Home and Mediterranean stations. In 1827-8 he held an appointment in the Coast Blockade as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Ramillies 74, Capt. Hugh Pigot; and from 18 May, 1835, until the period of his death he commanded, with the exception of a short interval in 1842, a station in the Coast Guard. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Pike, Walter

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​PIKE. (Retired Commander, 1840. f-p., 17; h-p., 32.)
Walter Pike was born 11 March, 1785.
This officer entered the Navy, 4 July, 1798, as A.B., on board the Achille 74, Capts. Hon. Henry Edwin Stanhope, Geo. Murray, and Edw. Buller, with whom he continued employed in the Channel, principally in the capacity of Midshipman, until transferred, in April, 1802, to the Endymion 40, Capts. Philip Chas. Durham and John Larmour, lying at Portsmouth. After a servitude of two years as Master’s Mate in the Isis 50, flag-ship at Newfoundland of Vice-Admiral Jas. Gambier, he became successively attached, in the course of 1804, to the Royal William, Swiftsure 74, and Glory 98, bearing the flags at Spithead and at Cadiz of Admirals Geo. Montagu and Sir John Orde. Of the ship last mentioned he was confirmed a Lieutenant 20 Feb. 1805. His succeeding appointments were – 22 June, 1805, to the Wolverene sloop, Capt. Thos. Smyth, at Plymouth – 3 Sept. following, to the Euryalus 36, commanded in the Mediterranean by Capts. Hon. Henry Blackwood and Hon. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dundas, under the former of whom he took part in the battle of Trafalgar – 25 Feb. 1809, as First-Lieutenant, to the Mermaid 32, Capt. Major Jacob Henniker, in which ship he visited Lisbon and Quebec – and 8 May, 1810, with similar rank, to the Achates of 16 guns, Capts. John Davies, Isaac Hawkins Morrison, and Thos. Lamb Polden Laughame. Under Capt. Morrison he shared, 21 Oct. 1813, in a very gallant running action of several hours’ duration, fought off the coast of France between the Achates, whose sails and rigging suffered much, and La Trave, a French frigate of 44 guns and 321 men, which had been previously dismasted in a gale of wind, and which was captured two days afterwards by the Andromache 38, Capt. Geo. Tobin. He also, in the same vessel, witnessed the surrender, to the Eurotas of 46 guns and 320 men, of another French frigate, La Clorinde, mounting 44 guns and 12 brass swivels, with a complement of 360 picked men, 25 Feb. 1814. The Achates was paid off in Nov. 1815; and Mr. Pike, who did not again go afloat, accepted, 12 Aug. 1840, the rank he now holds.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Pigott, Leighton Price

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​PIGOTT. (Lieutenant, 1844.)
Leighton Price Pigott is fourth son of the Rev. John Dryden Pigott, of Edgmond, co. Salop, Rector of that place and of Habberley, by Frances, second daughter and co-heir of Henry Bevan, Esq., of Shrewsbury.
This officer entered the Navy in 1834; passed his examination 6 July, 1840; and, after having served oil the Mediterranean and Home stations as Mate in the Impregnable 104, Capt. Thos. Forrest, St. Vincent 120, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Rowley, and Victoria and Albert yacht, Capt. Lord Adolphus. Fitz-Clarence, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 22 Oct. 1844. He has been again employed in the Mediterranean since 18 Nov. 1844, in the Amazon 26, Capt. Jas. John Stopford.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Pigot, George

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​PIGOT. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
George Pigot died at the commencement of 1846.
This officer entered the Navy 26 July, 1827; passed his examination 1 Sept. 1835; served for some time in the Mediterranean as. Mate of the Acheron steamer, Capt. Andrew Kennedy; obtained his commission 7 Feb. 1842; and from 18 of that month until paid off in 1844 was employed in the East Indies on board the Vindictive 50, Capt. John Toup Nicolas.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Shortland, Willoughby

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​SHORTLAND. (Lieutenant, 1828.)
Willoughby Shortland entered the Navy (from the Royal Naval College) 9 Jan. 1818; passed his examination in 1823; and obtained his commission 18 Jan. 1828. His succeeding appointments were – 24 Aug. 1828, to the Galatea 42, Capt. Sir Chas. Sullivan, employed on particular service – 19 Dec. 1829, to the Ranger 28, Capt. Wm. Walpole, on the Jamaica station – and, 21 March, 1831, to the command of the Skipjack schooner, of 5 guns, also in the West Indies, where he remained until superseded in June, 1833.
He is at present Colonial Secretary at New Zealand. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Shortt, Charles

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​SHORTT. (Lieut., 1821. f-p., 31; h-p., 9.)
Charles Shortt was born 3 June, 1791.
This officer entered the Navy, 20 April, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Flora 36, Capt. Loftus Otway Bland, in which frigate he was wrecked on the coast of Holland while holding the rating of Midshipman 19 Jan. 1808. On being released after a few months of captivity, he was received, in July of the same year, on board the Aboukir 74, Capt. Geo. Parker, attached to the force in the North Sea. He was subsequently employed – from 24 March, 1809, until 18 March, 1813 (on the Baltic and Halifax stations), in the Africa 64, Capts. L. O. Bland Geo. Fred. Ryves, and John Bastard, flag-ship for some time of Rear-Admiral Herbert Sawyer – from 19 March, 1813, until 25 Oct. 1815, in the Rippon 74, Capt. Sir Christopher Cole, and Amphion 32, Capts. Jas. Pattison Stewart, John Brett Purvis, and Wm. Bowles, in the Channel and among the Western Islands – from 26 Oct. 1815 until 3 Aug. 1819, in the Magicienne 42, Capt. John Brett Purvis, in the East Indies – and, from 30 March, 1820, until 21 Aug. 1821 in the Pandora 18, Capt. Chas. Grenville Randolph, on the Irish station. In the Rippon, Amphion, and Magicienne he held (as he had latterly done in the Africa) the rating of Master’s Mate, and in the Pandora that of Admiralty Midshipman. He saw much boat-service in the Africa on the Danish coast, and was much employed in her in chasing American frigates and privateers; and he was present in the Rippon at the capture, 21 Oct. 1813, of the French frigate Le Weser of 44 guns. On leaving ​the Pandora he took up a commission dated 19 July, 1821 – awarded in honour of the coronation of George IV. From 9 Jan. 1827 until Dec. 1830, he served in the Coast Blockade, with his name on the books of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye; and, since 14 Oct. 1834, he has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Sibly, John

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​SIBLY. (Lieutenant, 1825.)
John Sibly was born 6 Jan. 1797.
This officer entered the Navy, 16 May, 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Tonnant 80, Capt. Sir John Gore, employed off Brest and in Basque Roads. During the last two years of the war he served in the West Indies, part of the time as Midshipman, in the Fawn and Myrmidon of 20 guns each, Capts. Thos. Fellowes and Wm. Paterson. With the latter officer we find him in 1815 cruizing in the Channel in the Eridanus 36, and from 1816 until 1820 stationed in the East Indies in the Minden 74, flagship of Sir Rich. King. While attached to the Eridanus he was severely injured in the left leg; and before sailing, in the Minden, for India, he accompanied the expedition against Algiers, where he served, during the bombardment, in gun-boat No. 23. After he had left the Minden he joined in succession the Lee 20, Capt. Stewart Blacker, Spencer and Bulwark 74’s, Capts. Sir Thos. Lavie and Thos. Dundas, Parthian 10, Capt. Hon. Geo. Barrington, Isis 50, flag-ship of Sir Lawrence Wm. Halsted, and Beaver 10, Capts. John Jas. Onslow, Wm. Geo. Hyndham Whish, and Joseph O’Brien. The Lee, Spencer, Bulwark, and Parthian were employed on the Home station; the Isis and Beaver in the West Indies, whence, soon after his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 4 Oct. 1825, Mr. Sibly invalided. He has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Sibly is Governor of the Brixton House of Correction. He married, 22 Oct. 1831, Caroline Elizabeth, daughter of Lieut. John Derby, R.N. (1795), who died Warden of Portsmouth Dockyard. By that lady, who died 19 July, 1847, he has issue one daughter. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Shuttleworth, Peter

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​SHUTTLEWORTH. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 31.)
Peter Shuttleworth entered the Navy, 14 Sept. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Malta 80, Capts. Edw. Buller and Wm. Shield, employed in the Channel and also in the Mediterranean, where, in Aug. 1808, he removed as Midshipman (nearly 12 months after he had attained that rating) to the Montagu 74, Capts. Rich. Hussey Moubray and John Halliday. From May, 1811, until presented, in Oct. 1815, with a commission bearing date 21 Feb. in that year, he served off Cherbourg, Flushing, and Calais, on the north coast of Spain, and in North America and the West Indies, in the Egmont 74, Capt. Joseph Bingham, Insolent 14, Capt. Edw. Brazier, Fox 32, Capts. Wm. Paterson and John Knill Kinsman, Anaconda, Capt. Geo. Augustus Westphal, and Fox again, Capt. Frank Gore Willock. He has not been since afloat.
Lieut. Shuttleworth has been for some years Emigration Agent at Sligo, where he married, in 1836, ​Alicia, youngest daughter of Chas. Martin, Esq. Agent – Frederick Dufaur.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Shuldham, Molyneux

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​SHULDHAM. (Retired Commander, 1843. f-p., 20; h-p., 34.)
Molyneux Shuldham is third son of the late Arthur Lemuel Shuldham, Esq., of Dunmanway, co. Cork, and of Pallis Green, co. Limerick, who resided for many years at Deerpark, Devon, and was Deputy-Lieutenant for that co., and Lieutenant-Colonel of the East Devon Yeomanry Cavalry, by his first wife, Maria, daughter of the late Sir Wm. Anderson, Bart., formerly of Kilnwick Percy, Yorkshire, and of Lea Hall, Lincolnshire. He is brother (with the present Edm. Wm. Shuldham, Esq., of Dunmanway, Major-General E.I.Co.’s service, for some years Quarter-Master General at Bombay) of the late Lieut. John Geo. Evelyn Shuldham, R.N., of Mr. Henry Geo. Shuldham, Midshipman, R.N., who was killed at the taking of Surinam, and of the late Lieut.-Colonel Arthur Shuldham, E.I.C.S.
This officer entered the Navy, 5 Jan. 1793, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Alarm, Capt. Lewis Robertson, attached to the force in the Channel. On removing with Capt. Robertson to the Veteran 64, commanded afterwards by Capt. Wm. Hancock Kelly, he took part, in 1794, in the attack made by Commodore Ford on the island of St. Domingo. He next, in the course of 1796-7, became Midshipman (a rating he had previously attained) of the Unité 36, Capt. Chas. Rowley, Braakel 54, Capt. Thos. Bertie, and Lord Mulgrave, all on the Home station; and on 15 April, 1799, about which period he suffered shipwreck on the coast of Ireland, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His subsequent appointments were – 13 May, 1799, to the Seagull, Capts. Henry Wray and Thos. Lavie, stationed off Guernsey – 17 Jan. 1801, to the Edgar 74, Capts. Edw. Buller, Geo. Murray, and Robt. Waller Otway, under the second named of whom he fought at Copenhagen 2 April, 1801 – 5 April, 1803, and 15 March, 1804, to the Royal Sovereign 100 and Kent 74, Capts. Rich. Curry and Pulteney Malcolm, employed in the Channel and Mediterranean – 18 April, 1805, to the Royal William, Capt. John Wainwright, lying at Spithead – and, 6 March, 1806, to the command of the Adder gun-brig. The latter vessel being driven on shore and captured near Abreval 9 Dec following, he remained a prisoner of war in France from that period until April, 1814. He accepted the rank of Retired Commander on the Senior List 10 June, 1843.
In May, 1816, Commander Shuldham was presented with the gold Isis medal, and with the silver medal of the Society of Arts for his improved pullies and blocks, and his improvements in working a capstan; and in the session of 1817-18 he received another silver medal from the same Society for his ‘New Method of Ballasting Vessels.’ He married Fanny, daughter of the Rev. F. T. Maunton Orgill Leman, of Brampton Hall, Suffolk, and has a numerous family. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Sibbald, Thomas

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​SIBBALD. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Thomas Sibbald entered the Navy 2 Dec. 1825; and passed his examination in 1832. For his services on the coast of China he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 8 June, 1841. His subsequent appointments were – 2 Sept. 1841, to the Siren 16, Capt. Wm. Smith (b), fitting at Woolwich – 13 Oct. following, to the Illustrious 72, flagship of Sir Chas. Adam on the North America and West India station, whence he returned in 1845 – and, 6 June and 24 Oct. 1846, to the Avenger and Amphion steam-frigates, both commanded by Capt. Woodford John Williams, with whom he continued employed on Home service, in the latter vessel as First-Lieutenant, until Oct. 1847.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Sicklemore, John Cony

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​SICKLEMORE. (Lieutenant, 1827.)
John Cony Sicklemore, born 28 Nov. 1804, is eldest son of the late John Sicklemore, Esq., of Wetheringsett and Debenham, co. Suffolk, by Ann, third daughter of Robt. Cony, Esq., of Walpole Hall, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Norfolk Militia, who served at the battle of Preston Pans, and was Aide-de-Camp to Sir John Cope. The Sicklemores were of considerable importance during the eventful period of the civil war, when they represented the county of Suffolk and the borough of Ipswich in Parliament.
This officer entered the Navy 12 Feb. 1812; and in the course of that year was employed, while belonging to the Diomede 50, in landing and embarking troops on the coast of Spain and Holland. During the war with the United States he served for two years with activity on the North American station, and was present, besides sharing in other operations, in the attack upon Crany Island and at the capture of Hampton. In 1820 he passed his examination; in 1825-6 he was employed in the Tamar 26 and Atholl 28, in the Persian Gulf, at Rangoon, and in other parts of India; and on 10 April, 1827, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. In 1828-9 he was engaged on particular service in the Sulphur 8, Capt. Wm. Townsend Dance. From 30 Dec. 1837 until the early part of 1839 he held an appointment in the Coast Guard; to which he was reappointed 2 May, 1848. Since 10 Aug. in that year he has been in command of the Victoria revenue-cruizer.
Lieut. Sicklemore married, first, Louisa, second daughter of Lieut.-Colonel Lacy of the Royal Artillery. That lady dying 30 Aug. 1826, he married, secondly, 25 May, 1832, Sarah, eldest daughter of Wm. Hyder, Esq., of Court Lees, co. Kent; and being again left a widower 6 Sept. 1836, he married, a third time, 20 April, 1847, Augusta Charlotte, daughter of Rear-Admiral Searle. Agent – J. Hinxman.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Shortt, Francis Henry

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​SHORTT. (Lieutenant, 1843.)
Francis Henry Shortt entered the Navy 14 May, 1836; passed his examination 1 June, 1842; and after having been for two years and a half Mate of the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 22 Dec. 1843. From 23 Feb. 1844 until paid off at the close of 1847, he served in the Pacific and Channel and off the coast of Portugal in the America 50., Capts. Hon. John Gordon and Sir Thos. Maitland; and, from 1 Feb. until June, 1848, at Portsmouth in the Powerful 84, Capt. Hon. Rich. Saunders Dundas.