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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hillyar, Henry Shank

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​HILLYAR. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
Henry Shank Hillyar is brother of Lieut. C. F. Hillyar, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 24 Dec. 1831; passed his examination 14 May, 1838; and was employed, as Mate, during the latter part of the hostilities in China, on board the Cornwallis 72, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker. He attained his present rank 23 Dec. 1842; and since 18 March, 1843, has been serving in the Wolf 18, Capt. Arthur Vyner, and Wolverene 16, Capts. Wm. John Cavendish ​Clifford and John Chas. Dalrymple Hay, both on the East India station. On 19 Aug. 1845, as Senior of the latter vessel, he took command of her pinnace, and served with the boats of a squadron, carrying altogether 530 officers, seamen, and marines, at the destruction, under Capt. Chas. Talbot, of the piratical settlement of Malloodoo, on the north end of the island of Borneo, where the British encountered a desperate opposition, and sustained a loss of 6 men killed and 15 wounded. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hippisley, Charles James

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​HIPPISLEY. (Lieut., 1836. f-p., 30; h-p., 6.)
Charles James Hippisley, born 23 Sept. 1798, is third son of the late Gustavus Mathias Hippisley, Esq., by Ellen, third daughter of Thos. Fitzgerald, knight of Glin, of Glin Castle, co. Limerick; and grandson of the late Robt. Hippisley Trenchard, Esq., of Abbot’s Leigh Court, co. Somerset, Cutteridge, co. Wilts, and Mount Trenchard, Ireland. One of his brothers, Robt. Fitzgerald Hippisley, now deceased, was also a Lieutenant in the Navy.
This officer entered the Navy, 5 Aug. 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Audacious 74, Capt. Donald Campbell, stationed in the North Sea, and from the following Dec. until July, 1814, was employed in the Prince of Wales 98, Capts. Thos. Burton and John Erskine Douglas, on the Mediterranean station, where, in April of the latter year, he was present, as Midshipman, at the capture of Genoa. Prior to Oct. 1815, he next, we find, served in the West Indies on board the Rinaldo 10, Capts. Arch. Tisdall and John Undrell, but, being then paid off, he did not again go afloat until April, 1822, on 14 of which month he was nominated Master’s Mate of the Pigmy 10, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Hills, with whom he cruized on the Channel and Irish stations until March, 1823. His name was then borne for two years on the books of the Bulwark 76, from which ship, commanded at Plymouth and Portsmouth by Capt. Thos. Dundas, he was lent as Mate in July, 1824 (having passed his examination on 4 of the preceding Feb.) to the Herald yacht, Capt. H. J. Leeke, for the purpose of making a voyage to St. Petersburg. After a further employment of 2 years at Plymouth and off Lisbon in the Windsor Castle 74, Capts. Hugh Downman and Edw. Durnford King, Mr. Hippisley, in June, 1827, was appointed Chief Mate of the Hornet Revenue cutter, Lieut.-Commanders Henry Nevill Eastwood, Henry Crocker, and Dan. M‘Neale Beatty, on the coast of Ireland. In July, 1831, and May, 1832, he successively removed to the Sprightly and Harpy, other Revenue vessels, commanded, on Channel service, by Lieut. Thos. Holloway Holman and Edw. Youel. He left the Harpy on the ultimate attainment of his present rank, 15 Jan. 1836, and since 9 of the following March has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard.
Lieut. Hippisley, who is Senior of 1836, is in possession of testimonials that do him much credit. He married, 14 Dec. 1826, Mary Eliza Temple, second daughter of the late John Wills, Esq., Purser and Paymaster, R.N. (1797.)
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hilton, Stephen

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​HILTON. (Retired Commander, 1839. f-p., 21; h-p., 31.)
Stephen Hilton, born 9 Aug. 1785, is brother of Commander Geo. Hilton, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 13 Aug. 1795, as Third-cl. Vol., on board the Bristol, Lieut.-Commander Hutchison, lying at Chatham; and, from July, 1796, until Jan. 1798, was borne at Sheerness on the books of the Grana, Lieut.-Commander Dixon. Re-embarking, in Aug. 1799, on board the Pearl 32, Capt. Sam. Jas. Ballard, he proceeded to the Mediterranean, where, during a continuance of two years, he participated as Midshipman in various cutting-out affairs in the vicinity of Toulon, and attended the expedition of 1801 to Egypt. Between Feb. 1802 and March, 1805, he served on the Home station in the Acasta 40, Capts. Edw. Fellowes and Jas. Athol Wood, Revolutionnaire frigate, Capt. Walter Lock, and Queen 98, Capts. Thos. Jones and Manley Dixon. He then became Master’s Mate of the Minotaur 74, Capt. Chas. John Moore Mansfield, and, after sharing in the glories of Trafalgar, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 22 Jan. 1806. Being appointed, on 14 of the following June, to the Revenge 74, Capts. Sir John Gore, Hon. Chas. Paget, and Alex. Robt. Kerr, he witnessed, 25 Sept. in the same year, the capture of four heavy French frigates by a squadron under Sir Sam. Hood, off Rochefort, and was further present, in 1809, at the destruction of the French shipping in Basque Roads, and the siege of Flushing. On the latter occasion he was sent on shore with a party of 80 seamen, and while employed in a battery was slightly wounded by the explosion of a cartridge, which killed 3 of his men and seriously injured a Midshipman. His subsequent appointments were, always as First-Lieutenant – in 1810-11, to the Primrose 18, Capts. Thos. Burton and Chas. Geo. Rodney Phillott, Sophie 18, Capt. Nicholas Lockyer, and Pique 36, Capt. Hon. Anthony Maitland, on the Home station – 14 March, 1812, to the Leopard 50, armée en flûte, Capt. Wm. Henry Dillon, under whom he was actively employed in the Mediterranean and on the coast of Spain in the conveyance of troops and provisions for Lord Wellington’s army – 28 April, 1814, to the Desirée 36, Capt. Wm. Woolridge, in which frigate he made a voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, and was next stationed in the Downs and off the Scheldt – and, 19 Sept. 1815 and 11 March, 1816, to the Spencer 74, and Malta 80, Capts. Wm. Robt. Broughton and Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, guard-ships at Plymouth. He went on half-pay 28 Feb. 1817; and accepted the rank he now holds 7 Jan. 1839.
Commander Hilton married in 1818, and has issue nine children.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hinde, Edwin Thomas

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​HINDE. (Lieutenant, 1844.)
Edwin Thomas Hinde entered the Navy 24 July, 1829; and in 1831, while Midshipman of the Dryad 42, Capt. John Hayes, was officially reported for the conduct he displayed in her tender, the Black Joke, at the capture, by boarding, of a slave-vessel of superior force. He passed his examination 6 July, 1836; was employed, from 1841 until the close of 1843, in the Mediterranean, as Mate of the Monarch 84, Capt. Sam. Chambers; obtained his commission 10 June, 1844; and since 9 Sept. 1844, has been stationed in the East Indies on board the Cruizer 16, Capts. Edw. Gennys Fanshawe, Wm. Maclean, and Edw. Peirse.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hingston, George

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​HINGSTON. (Lieutenant, 1825.)
George Hingston entered the Navy 28 April, 1807; passed his examination in 1814; and obtained his commission 10 Jan. 1825. He has not been since employed.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Sterling, Antoinette

​STERLING, Antoinette, born Jan. 23, 1850(?) at Sterlingville, in the State of New York, though American by birth and parentage is of English extraction, tracing her descent through William Bradford, one of the Pilgrim Fathers who crossed in 'The Mayflower,' and was the second Governor of Plymouth Colony, from the family of John Bradford, martyr, burnt in 1555.
She possessed, even in childhood, a voice of extraordinary range, which afterwards settled into a contralto of great richness and volume, with a compass from E♭ in the Bass stave to the top F in the Treble one. Her first serious study of singing began in 1867 in New York under Signor Abella, better known as the husband of Mme. d'Angri. She came to England in 1868 and remained a few months, singing chiefly in the provinces, en route for Germany. There she ​was first a pupil of Mme. Marchesi at Cologne; then of Pauline Viardot at Baden Baden, and lastly of Manuel Garcia in London. She returned to America in 1871, and soon took a high position as a concert singer. On May 13, 1873, she took leave of her native country in a concert at the Irving Hall, Boston, arrived in England, and made her first appearance on Nov. 5 at the Covent Garden Promenade Concert, under the conductorship of Sir Julius Benedict. At the Crystal Palace she first sang on Dec. 6, and shortly after appeared at the Saturday Popular, Feb. 21, 1874, Sacred Harmonic, Philharmonic, Albert Hall and London Ballad Concerts. At Gloucester, in the following September, she sang at the Festival. She was married on Easter Sunday 1875, at the Savoy Chapel, to Mr. John MacKinlay; and since then, excepting a few months in that year, when she sang in America in a series of 40 concerts under Theodore Thomas, has resided in London, and is one of the best known and most popular singers there.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Stephens, Charles

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Stern, Julius

​STERN, Julius, was born at Breslau, Aug. 8, 1820, but removed at an early age to Berlin, where he learned music under Maurer, Ganz, and Rungenhagen, at the Singakademie and the Royal Academy of Arts, and soon began to compose. 'Please enquire about Mr. Julius Stern of Berlin,' says Mendelssohn, 'who has sent me a book of songs with a kind note. From the first glance I think they show talent, but I have not seen or heard anything else about him.' In 1843 he received a travelling scholarship from the King, which led him, first to Dresden for the special study of singing, and then to Paris, where he soon became known as conductor of the German 'Gesangverein.' Here he performed the Antigone, first in the studio of Henry Lehmann the painter, and then at the Odéon theatre, which drew from Mendelssohn a very characteristic letter (May 27, 1844). In 1846 he returned to Berlin, and in 1847 founded the well-known Singing Society which bore his name. The first performance of 'Elijah' in Oct. 1847, gave a specimen of the powers of the new association, and the level has since been fully maintained by performances of a very wide range of works both ancient and modern. In 1872 the Society celebrated its 25th anniversary, amid an enthusiasm which conclusively showed how wide and deep was the public feeling. In 1874 ill-health obliged Stern to retire from the conductorship, and he was succeeded by Stockhausen.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Steinway and Sons

​STEINWAY AND SONS, an eminent firm of pianoforte makers in New York, distinguished by the merit of their instruments and by their commercial enterprise, which, in comparatively few years, have placed their firm in equal rank with those famous older makers in Europe whose achievements in the improvement and development of the instrument have become historical.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Sterkel, Johann

​STERKEL, Johann Franz Xaver (sometimes styled Abbé Sterkel), born at Würzburg, Dec. 3, 1750, was a distinguished amateur. Though music formed a part of his education it was only a part. He went through his college course at Würzburg university, took orders, and became vicar and organist of Neumünster. In 1778 he was called to the court of the Elector of Mayence at Aschaffenburg as chaplain and pianist. Next year the Elector sent him on a journey through Italy; success attended him everywhere, and at Naples he brought out an opera, 'Farnace,' with éclat. In 1781 he returned to Mayence and was promoted to a canonry. All this time he was composing as well as playing in all departments of music. He wrote about this date some German songs which were great favourites, and he formed some excellent pupils—among composers Hofmann and Zulehner, among singers Grünbaum and Kirschbaum. In September 1791 occurred the great musical event of Sterkel's life, though he probably did not know its significance—his meeting with Beethoven, then a youth of twenty. Beethoven came to Aschaffenburg with the band of the Elector of Bonn, and was taken by Ries and Simrock to call on the great player, whose reputation was something like that of Liszt at the present day. Sterkel was the first great executant that Beethoven had heard, and the extreme refinement and finish of his style evidently struck him much. He watched him with the closest attention, and not unnaturally declined to play in his turn, till Sterkel induced him to do so by speaking of his 24 variations on Righini's 'Venni Amore.' They had been published only a few months previously, and Sterkel declared that they were so hard that he did not believe even the composer could play them. Beethoven played what he could recollect, and improvised others fully equalling the originals in difficulty—but the curious thing was that he adopted Sterkel's delicate style all through. They do not appear to have met again. In 1793 Sterkel succeeded Righini as Capellmeister to the Elector, and this threw him still more into serious composition, but the French war forced the Elector to leave Mayence, and his Capellmeister returned to Wurzburg. In 1805 he became Capellmeister at Ratisbon, where all his old energy revived, and he taught and composed with the greatest vigour and success. The war of 1813 at length drove him back from Ratisbon to Wurzburg, and there he died Oct. 21, 1817.
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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Clark, John

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​CLARK. (Retired Commander, 1837. f-p., 17; h-p., 36.)
John Clark was born 6 Aug. 1777.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Aug. 1794 (from Christ’s Hospital), as Ordinary, on board the Russel 74, Capts. John Willet Payne and Thos. Larcom, in which ship he shared, as Midshipman, in Lord Bridport’s action, 23 June, 1795. Until July, 1801, he next served on board L’Impétueux 78, Capts. J. W. Payne and Sampson Edwards, and Indefatigable 46, Capts. Hon. Henry Curzon and Matthew Henry Scott; and while in the latter ship, besides attending the Ferrol expedition, assisted at the capture, 22 Oct. 1800, of La Venus French frigate, of 52 guns, as also, on other occasions, of two heavy privateers, in both of which he was sent home as Prize-Master. Towards the close of 1801 he joined the Theseus 74, Capt. John Bligh, and, on subset quently proceeding to the West Indies, boarded and carried, with the boats of that ship, a French national-cutter and 13 merchant-vessels, lying in Port Jeremie, St. Domingo. On removing, in Dec. 1803, to the Hercule 74, bearing the flag of Sir John Thos. Duckworth, we. find Mr. Clark, early in 1804, serving throughout the whole of the land operations in the unfortunate attack upon Curaçoa; after which he was in succession appointed Acting-Lieutenant of the Duquesne 74, Capt. Jas. Walker, and Hound 16, Capt. Hon. Wm. Pakenham, and was confirmed, 6 April, 1805, into the Thunderer 74, Capts. Wm. Lechmere and John Talbot. During an attachment of three years and a half to the latter ship, he took part, among other stirring scenes, in Sir Robt. Calder’s action and in the battle of Trafalgar; commanded a party of seamen and marines at the siege of Gaeta; was with Sir John Thos. Duckworth at the passage of the Dardanells; and served most responsibly in the expedition against Egypt. On 26 Aug. 1809, Lieut. Clark assumed command of No. 73 gun-boat, and, simultaneously, of a division of the flotilla stationed near Fort Lillo, for the purpose of co-operating in the attack upon Walcheren, where he appears on many occasions to have been warmly engaged. He afterwards served, from Jan. 1810 to July, 1812, on board the Adamant 50, bearing the flag at Leith of Rear-Admiral Wm. Albany Otway; and, lacking ability to procure further employment, accepted his present rank 23 Oct. 1837.
Commander Clark is married.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Clark, James Charles

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​CLARK. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
James Charles Clark entered the Navy in 1828; passed his examination 2 May, 1839; served for several years in the East Indies on board the Pelican 16, Capts. Chas. Geo. Elers Napier and Philip Justice; and after a further employment of some months in the Rattler steam-sloop, Capt. Henry Smith, was promoted to the rank he now holds 6 Dec. 1845. He then officiated for a short time as Additional-Lieutenant of the Vernon 50, bearing the flag on the south-east coast of America of Rear-Admiral Sam. Hood Inglefield, and is at present on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Clark, Joseph

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​CLARK. (Lieutenant, 1819. f-p., 35; h-p., 5.)
Joseph Clark, born in 1790, has lost five brothers in the naval service of their country, of whom one was wounded, as First-Lieutenant of the Dictator 64, at the reduction of the French West-India Islands in 1794, another served in Sir Robt. Calder’s action, and a third in Sir Rich. Strachan’s.
This officer entered the Navy, 12 April, 1807, as A.B., on board the Sheldrake sloop, Capt. John Thicknesse, stationed in the Channel, where he soon afterwards attained the rating of Midshipman, and then of Master’s Mate. On removing, in July, 1808, to the Hydra 38, Capt. Geo. Mundy, we find Mr. Clark employed for two years in perpetual boat attacks on the enemy’s forts and vessels along the coast of Spain; after which he served, until May, 1816, on board the Hannibal 74, flag-ship in the Baltic of Rear-Admiral Philip Chas. Durham, Christian VII. 80, Capt. Ball, off Flushing, Bulwark 74, Rear-Admiral Durham, in the Channel, Iphigenia and Resistance frigates, both commanded in the Mediterranean by Capt. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, Barrosa 36, Capts. Wm. Henry Shirreff and Wm. M‘Culloch, in the East Indies, and Venerable 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Durham in the West Indies. While in the Resistance he witnessed, 5 Oct. 1813, an attack on the batteries of Port d’Anzo, and the capture of a convoy of 29 vessels anchored for protection under the walls; and he was present, in the Venerable, at the reduction, in 1815, of Martinique and Guadeloupe. From June, 1816, until Sept. 1818, Mr. Clark, as Admiralty-Midshipman, was further employed, on the Mediterranean, Halifax, and Home stations, in the Leander 50, Capt. Edw. Chetham (under whom he was wounded in the left arm at the battle of Algiers), Pactolus 38, Capt. Wm. Hugh Debbie, Florida 24, Capt. Chas. Sibthorp John Hawbayne, and Vengeur 74, Capt. Thos. Alexander. He then joined the Coast Blockade, and, obtaining his commission 16 Aug. 1819, . continued in the same service, with his name successively on the books of the Severn, Ramillies, and Hyperion, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Wm. Jas. Mingaye, until 1829. For his exertions during that period in saving the crews and cargoes of 10 different vessels, of from 600 to 700 tons each, he was presented by the Committee at Lloyd’s with a sword, a brace of pistols, and a gold medal; as likewise with a gold medal from the King of the Netherlands, for preserving the lives of six of his Majesty’s subjects, wrecked near Beachy Head. With the exception of four years (from 1837 until Sept. 1841), Lieut. Clark has been in the Coast Guard since 2 Aug. 1830.
He married, in 1818, Louisa, youngest daughter of Capt. Geo. Rice, R.N. (who died from the wounds he had received, as First of the Valiant, on the 1st of June, 1794), grand-daughter of Capt. Geo. Burdon, R.N., who, when commanding the Drake sloop, fell in action with the notorious Paul Jones, 25 April, 1778, and niece of the late Admiral Burdon. By that lady he has issue two children.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Clark, Richard (a)

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​CLARK. (Retired Commander, 1823. f-p., 24; h-p., 45.)
Richard Clark (a) died 5 Feb. 1845.
This officer entered the Navy, 30 Dec. 1776, as Midshipman, on board the Albion 74, Capt. John Carter Allen; and, continuing to serve with the same officer, in the Egmont and Gibraltar 74’s, until Oct. 1780, was present, in the Egmont, in Keppel’s action with the Comte d’Orvilliers, 27 July, 1778. He then joined the Crescent 28, Capt. Hon. Thos. Pakenham, which ship, in May, 1781, was captured by the French frigates Friponne and La Gloire, having previously, however, struck her colours, after a gallant defence, and a loss of 26 men killed and 67 wounded, to the Dutch ship Brill, of 36 guns. On regaining his liberty, Mr. Clark, in Aug. following, rejoined Capt. Pakenham in the Minerva 38; from which vessel he next removed to the Victory 100, bearing the flag of Lord Howe, whom he accompanied to the relief of Gibraltar in Oct. 1782. We subsequently find him serving as Acting-Lieutenant of the Europa 50, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Jas. Gambler on the West India station; for two years, as Commander of the Squirrel Revenue-cutter, at the port of Looe; and, next, on board the Impregnable 98, and Queen Charlotte 100, flag-ships of Sir Rich. Bickerton and Lord Howe. On 16 Aug. 1790, he again received an acting-order as Lieutenant, in the Hussar 28, Capt. Eliab Harvey; and, on 2 Nov. in the same year, he was confirmed in the Bombay Castle 74, Capt. John Thos. Duckworth. After a further ​servitude of some months under Capt. Harvey in the Santa Marguretta 38, Lieut. Clark assumed command, 26 July, 1794, of the Black Joke hired lugger, and, shortly afterwards, of the Argus, another lugger, in which he served with Lord Bridport in the action of 23 July, 1795. On 26 Dec. 1799, he was invested, from the Neptune 98, Capt. Jas. Vashon, with the charge of the Alert lugger, and remained in that vessel until Oct. 1801. From 14 July, 1803, until 1808 (excepting from May, 1805, to Sept. 1806, when he commanded a Signal station at St. Catharine’s, in the Isle of Wight), Lieut. Clark was, lastly, employed in the Sea Fencibles, at Brixham and Dartmouth. He attained the rank of Retired Commander 13 May, 1823.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Clark, William John Stephen

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​CLARK. (Retired Commander, 1834. f-p., 32; h-p., 25.)
William John Stephen Clark entered the Navy, 19 Aug. 1790, as A.B., on board the Defiance 74, Capt. Geo. Murray, and, in Nov. following, removed, as Midshipman, to the Winchelsea, Capt. Fisher, employed in the Channel. After an interval of two years, he joined, 22 Aug. 1793, the Intrepid 64, Capt. Hon. Chas. Carpenter, on his subsequent transference from which ship to L’Espion 18, Capt. Wm. Hugh Kittoe, he was taken by three French frigates, 22 July, 1794. From Nov. 1795, the date of his release from captivity, until the receipt of his commission, 24 April, 1802, Mr. Clark subsequently served, on the Home and Mediterranean stations, latterly as Acting-Lieutenant, on board the Fame 74, Capt. Thos. Taylor, Virginie 44, Capt. Anth. Hunt, Beaulieu 38, Capt. Fras. Fayerman, and Queen Charlotte 100, and Barfleur 98, flag-ships of Rear-Admiral Jas. Hawkins Whitehed and Cuthbert Collingwood. While in the Virginie he was invested, 9 Nov. 1797, as prizemaster, with the command of the Indian Chief, a captured American East Indiaman. His appointments, subsequent to his promotion, appear to have been – 9 April, 1804, to the. Cyclops, Capts. John Fyffe, Fras. Douglas, and Gilbert Heathcote, stationed off Lymington – 13 April, 1805, to the Puissant 74, Capts. John Irwin and John Hall, lying at Spithead – 27 Jan. 1809, to be agent for transports afloat, in which capacity he attended the expedition to Flushing – 9 Oct. 1812, again to the Puissant, Capt. Benj. Wm. Page – and, 22 Sept. 1813, once more to the transport service, an event which occasioned his visiting Bermuda and the Chesapeake, whence he returned in Aug. 1815. He was next employed in the Coast Guard from 7 June, 1821, until 1833; and, on 25 Jan. 1834, accepted the rank he now holds.