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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Langdon, William

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​LANGDON. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 10; h-p., 33.)
William Langdon was born 6 Nov. 1790, at Montacute Vicarage, co. Somerset.
This officer entered the Navy, 13 April, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Weymouth 44, Capt. John Draper, and after serving for a year and a half, the chief part of the time as Midshipman, on the East India and Brazilian stations, removed, in April, 1806, to the Monarch 74, Capts. John Clarke Searle and Rich. Lee. On 15 of the following July we find him employed with a detachment of boats at the cutting out, in face of a desperate and well-concerted resistance, at the entrance of the river Gironde, of the French corvette Le César, mounting 16 guns, with a complement of 86 men, who, with a loss to themselves of 14 killed and wounded, occasioned the British one altogether of 9 killed and 39 wounded. He was also, on 25 Sept. in the same year, present at the capture, by a squadron under Sir Sam. Hood, of four heavy French frigates off Rochefort; on which occasion the Monarch enacted a very conspicuous part, compelled La Minerve, of 44 guns and 650 men, to surrender, and experienced a total loss of 4 killed and 25 wounded. In the Champion 24, Capts. Jas. Coutts Crawford and Robt. Henderson, to which vessel he removed in Aug. 1807, Mr. Langdon came frequently into contact with the batteries on the coast of France, and contributed to the capture of a French privateer near St. Maloes. Removing, as Master’s Mate, in Jan. 1810, to the Badger 10, Capt. John Lampen Manley, he served for 14 months in that vessel in the North Sea and in the rivers Elbe, Ems, and Weser. In Aug. 1811, after he had been for five months borne as a Supernumerary on the books of the Dragon 74, bearing the flag in the West Indies of Sir Fras. Laforey, he became Acting-Lieutenant of the Ringdove 18, Capt. Wm. Dowers – to which vessel he was confirmed by commission dated 29 of the ensuing Oct. He invalided in May, 1812, and was lastly, from the next Oct. until Sept. 1814, employed in the Bermdda 10, Capts. Jas. John Gordon Bremer and Wm. Wolrige, on the Downs station (where he was often in action with the Boulogne batteries, and assisted in making several captures), and also off Gottenborg and the north coast of Sweden.
Lieut. Langdon married Anne, daughter of Wm. Elliott, Esq., of co. Somerset, by whom, who died 20 May, 1844, he has issue an only child, Anne Elliott, now the wife of Sir Thos. Howland Roberts, Bart., of Brightfieldstown, co. Cork. Agents – Pettet and Newton.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Langtry, Joseph Millar

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​LANGTRY. (Commander, 1842. f-p. 21; h-p., 8.)
Joseph Millar Langtry is third son of the late Joseph Langtry, Esq., of Bishop’s Waltham, Hants, and of Townabrache, co. Antrim; and elder brother of the late Wm. Henry Langtry, Esq., Master R.N. (1842), who entered the Navy in 1825, served as Master’s Assistant of the Dartmouth 42 at the battle of Navarin, was for five years and three months Acting-Master and Master of the Clio sloop on the East India station, took part during that period in the operations on the coast of China and up the Yang-tse-Kiang, and died in 1846.
This officer entered the Navy, 7 Nov. 1818, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Slaney 20, Capts. Donat Henchy O’Brien and Henry Stanhope, in which vessel and the Aurora 46, Capt. Henry Prescott, he served on the South American station, part of the time as Midshipman, until Feb. 1822. He then became Mate of the Albion 74, Capts. Sir Wm. Hoste and John Acworth Ommanney; and, on proceeding to the Mediterranean, took part in the battle of Navarin 20 Oct. 1827. On that occasion he boarded and hauled down the colours of an Egyptian frigate, but was soon afterwards under the necessity, from her having caught fire, of cutting her cables for the purpose of allowing her to drift clear of the Albion, a work in which he was assisted by Rich. Harris, A.B. As a reward for his conduct, Mr. Langtry, on the recommendation of his Captain, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant by commission dated 22 Oct. 1827. He then served for nearly four months in the Lyra 10, Capt. John Harvey Boteler, off Lisbon; and was afterwards appointed – 10 Oct. 1829, and 19 Feb. 1830, to the Ramillies and Talavera 74’s, Coast Blockade ships, both commanded by Capt. Hugh Pigot – 5 April, 1831, to the Coast Guard service, In which he continued until March, 1833 – 7 Aug. 1835, to the Pylades 18, Capt. Wm. Langford Castle, fitting at Plymouth, where he soon afterwards invalided – 25 March, 1835, to the Hercules 74, Capt. Maurice Fred. Fitzhardinge Berkeley, which ship, stationed in the Channel, his health, in the following Oct., also obliged him to leave – 2 Oct. 1837, and 13 Oct. 1840, to the Donegal 78, and, as Flag-Lieutenant, to the Britannia 120, bearing each the flag of Sir J. A. Ommanney on the Lisbon and Mediterranean stations – and 23 Sept. 1841, to the Powerful 84, Capt. Michael Seymour, with whom he returned home in Dec. of the same year. He attained his present rank 4 Jan. 1842; and since 8 May, 1847, has been employed in the Coast Guard. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Langworthy, John

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​LANGWORTHY. (Lieutenant, 1832.)
John Langworthy entered the Navy 14 April, 1811; passed his examination In 1822; and obtained his commission 27 March, 1832. He has since been on half-pay. He married Mary, daughter of ___ Langworthy, Esq., of Exeter.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lapidge, Charles Horace

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​LAPIDGE. (Lieutenant, 1824.)
Charles Horace Lapidge was promoted, 31 Aug. 1824, to a Lieutenancy in the Scout 18, Capt. Jas. Wigston, which vessel returned home from the West Indies and was paid off in the summer of 1825. His subsequent appointments were – 19 Dec. 1837, as First, to the Lily 16, Capt. John Reeve, on the African station – 10 July, 1838, as Additional, to the Stag 46, Capt. Thos. Ball Sulivan, employed in South America, where he continued until 1839 – and 24 Nov. 1841, to the command of ​the Pantaloon 10, on the coast of Africa, whence he returned in 1844. He has not been since afloat. He was left a widower 21 June, 1846. Agent – J. Chippendale.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lapenotiere, John Good

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​LAPENOTIERE. (Lieutenant, 1827.)
John Good Lapenotiere entered the Navy 5 Aug. 1819; passed his examination in 1825; and was made Lieutenant, 17 March, 1827, into the Pylades 18, Capt. Geo. Vernon Jackson, on the Jamaica station, whence he returned to England In Feb. 1828. Since 21 April, 1847, he has been employed In the Coast Guard.
Having lost his first wife, 8 Feb. 1840, Mr. Lapenotiere married, secondly, 12 Dec. following, Harriette Maria, daughter of John Booth, Esq., of Whitchurch.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Langford, Thomas Netherton

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​LANGFORD. (Commander, 1829.)
Thomas Netherton Langford, born in 1805, is second son of Edw. Langford, Esq., of Trungle, co. Cornwall, Captain in the Royal Cornwall Militia, and late of H.M. 49th Regt. of Foot, by Mary, eldest daughter of Henry Whitmarsh, Esq., of Batt’s Place, near Taunton, J.P.
This officer entered the Navy 3 Oct. 1818; passed his examination in 1824; obtained his first commission 30 Nov. 1826; and was successively appointed – 15 Feb. 1827, to the Badger 10, Capt. Chas. Crowdy, in the North Sea – 18 March, 1828, to the Sapphire 28, Capt. Henry Dundas, in South America – and, 13 Nov. 1828, to the Ganges 84, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Robt. Waller Otway, on the same station. He was promoted, on being paid off, to his present rank 19 Sept. 1829; and has since been on half-pay.
Commander Langford married, 11 Feb. 1835, Caroline, eldest daughter of the late Hon. and Rev. Jas. St. Leger, brother of Viscount Doneraile, and by that lady has issue. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Puleston, John

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​PULESTON. (Lieut., 1809. f-p., 15; h-p., 38.)
John Puleston entered the Navy, 3 Dec. 1794, as Third-cl. Boy, on board the Cambridge 74, Capt. Rich. Boger, guard-ship at Plymouth; and from May, 1795, until April, 1802, served, with the exception of an interval in 1796-7, in the Camilla 20, Capts. Thos. Graves, Robt. Larkan, and Edw. Brace, on the North Sea, Channel, West India, and Newfoundland stations – part of the time in the capacity of Midshipman. Joining next, in March, 1805, the Melampus 36, Capts. Stephen Poyntz and Edw. Hawker, he assisted, 13 July following, at the capture of the Hydra privateer, of 28 guns and 192 men, and, in Sept. 1806, at the destruction, off Cape Henry, of L’Impétueux, a French 74. In Jan. 1809, we find him escorting a fleet of transports from Halifax to Barbadoes; and on 16 of that month contributing to the capture of Le Colibri, a French brig-of-war mounting 16 guns, with a complement of 92 men, having on board 570 barrels of flour and a large quantity of gunpowder for the relief of St. Domingo. He was made Lieutenant, 1 July, 1809, into the Martin sloop, Capt. John Evans, at Newfoundland; and was afterwards appointed – 13 Dec. 1809, to the Indian sloop, Capts. Chas. John Austen, Wm. Bowen Mends, and Henry Jane, with whom he served on the Halifax and West India stations until Oct. 1812 – 4 Nov. 1813, to the Hannibal 74, Capt. Sir Michael Seymour, in which ship, prior to returning to the West Indies, he aided at the capture, off Cherbourg, of the French 40-gun frigate Sultane – and, 29 Dec. 1814, nearly four months after he had left the Hannibal, to the Scylla sloop, Capt. Geo. Bennet Allen. He has been on half-pay since 30 Sept. 1815.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Pullen, Samuel George

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​PULLEN. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 31; h-p., 15.)
Samuel George Pullen entered the Navy, in 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Princess Royal 98, Capts. David Atkins, Thos. Macnamara Russell, Herbert Sawyer, and Robt. Carthew Reynolds, in which ship he served with the Channel fleet until Nov. 1805. He was afterwards employed as Midshipman on the Mediterranean, Home, North American, and West India stations in the Britannia, Salvador del Mundo, and San Domingo, flagships of Admirals the Earl of Northesk, Wm. Young, and Sir John Borlase Warren, Loup-Cervier and Cleopatra, both commanded by Capt. Chas. Gill, Scylla sloop, Capt. Geo. Bennet Allen, and Akbar 50, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. Byam Martin. From 31 July, 1815, until 18 May, 1816, he acted as Lieutenant of the Narcissus 32, Capt. Hon. Geo. Alfred Crofton, again on the coast of North America. He then took up a commission bearing date 16 March, 1815. From 16 March, 1827, until 1830, he served in the Coast Blockade as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye; and since 3 July, 1834, he has been uninterruptedly employed in the Coast Guard.
He married, 17 May, 1838, Isabella Jane, second daughter of H. Duncan, Esq., M.P., of Park Street, Grosvenor Square.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Purchas, William

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​PURCHAS. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 12; h-p., 31.)
William Purchas was born 1 Aug. 1790, at Milton, co. Cambridge.
This officer entered the Navy, 25 July, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Aeolus 32, Capt. Lord Wm. FitzRoy, with whom, after sharing in Sir Rich. Strachan’s action and co-operating, as Midshipman, in the reduction of Martinique, he proceeded to Halifax and thence returned to England in Dec. 1809 in the Squirrel 20. During the nine following months he served on the North Sea station in the Bellona 74, Capt. John Erskine Douglas; and from Sept. 1810 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 6 Feb. 1812, we find him employed off Lisbon in the Macedonian 38, Capts. Lord Wm. FitzRoy and Wm. Waldegrave, North Star 20, Capt. Thos. Coe, and Barfleur 98, flag-ship of Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley. His next appointments were – 23 March, 1812, again to the Barfleur – 6 March and 29 July, 1814, to the Alcmène 38 and Rivoli 74, Capts. Jerem. Coghlan and Edw. Stirling Dickson – and 31 May, 1815, to the Partridge sloop, Capt. John Miller Adye. In those four ships he was stationed principally in the Mediterranean, where he assisted, in the Alcmène, at the capture of a large convoy under the guns of Porto Maurizio and at the reduction of Genoa; and, in the Rivoli, at the capture of La Melpomène, French frigate of 44 guns, after a brave defence of 15 minutes, 30 April, 1815. In March, 1816, he returned to England.
From 12 Jan. 1820, until obliged by ill health to resign, 4 Feb. 1841, Lieut. Purchas filled an appointment in the Excise. He married 7 Jan. 1817, and has issue two sons and three daughters. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Puget, William David

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​PUGET. (Captain, 1841. f-p., 25; h-p., 9.)
William David Puget entered the Navy, 12 Jan. 1813, as a Volunteer, on board the Owen Glendower 42, Capt. Brian Hodgson, in which ship and in the Minden 74, Capt. Alex. Skene, and Clorinde 38, Capt. Thos. Briggs, he served on the East India station, the chief part of the time as Midshipman, until Aug. 1814. He then joined the Monmouth 64, Capt. Wm. Wilkinson, lying in the Downs; and in Feb. 1815 entered the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth, where he remained one year and 10 months. In Dec. 1817 he again embarked on board the Andromache frigate, Capt. Wm. Henry Shirreff, lying at Spithead; but he had not been many days in that ship before he removed to the Sybille 44, Capt. Chas. Malcolm, and sailed for the West Indies. Returning home in Feb. 1819, he served, from the following May until Oct. 1820, at Plymouth and Portsmouth in the Heron sloop, Capt. Job Hanmer, Spartan 46, Capt. Wm. Furlong Wise, and Queen Charlotte 100, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Campbell. At the end of that period he again proceeded to the West Indies in the Sybille under the flag of Sir Chas. Rowley; and on 22 July, 1822, he was there confirmed a Lieutenant (two months after he had been ordered to act as such) in the Icarus 10, Capts. Thos. Herbert and Alfred Matthews. He left the Icarus in March, 1823; and was subsequently appointed – in Oct. 1824, to the Wellesley 74, Capt. Graham Eden Hamond, under whom he escorted the present Lord Stuart de Rothesay to the Brazils – 23 Dec. 1825, to the Spartiate 76, Capt. Fred. Warren, in which ship he was for upwards of four years employed on the ​Lisbon and Mediterranean stations – and, 6 Aug. 1831, as First, to the Isis 50, fitting for the flag of the last-mentioned officer, then Rear-Admiral Warren, Commander-in-Chief at the Cape of Good Hope. On his return home he was promoted to the rank of Commander 2 Dec. 1834. He was afterwards nominated Second Captain – 28 Jan. 1835, of the Dublin 50, flag-ship of Sir G. E. Hamond in South America, where he was superseded in Aug. 1836 – 22 Feb. 1837, of the Hercules 74, Capt. Maurice Fred. Fitzhardinge Berkeley, on the Home station – and, 1 Sept. 1337, of the Melville 74, Capt. Hon. Rich. Saunders Dundas. For his services in the Melville in China, where he was praised in the highest manner for his zealous exertions at the capture of Tycocktow, and attracted notice by the able support he atforded in the action with the forts at the Boca Tigris, he was promoted, 8 June, 1841, to the rank he now holds. He has since been on half-pay.
Capt. Puget married, 3 Aug. 1844, Mary Laurents, youngest daughter of the late Rev. Philip Godfrey, Rector of Ayot St. Lawrence, co. Herts. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Pulling, James

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​PULLING. (Captain, 1845. f-p., 28; h-p., 16.)
James Pulling entered the Navy, 26 July, 1803, as Midshipman, on board the Fisgard 38, Capts. Lord Mark Robt. Kerr, Wm. Bolton, and Fras. Mason. In that ship he was actively employed on the Channel, Mediterranean, Jamaica, and North Sea stations, part of the time as Master’s Mate, until obliged by ill health to invalid in May, 1810. In 1809 he accompanied the expedition to the Walcheren. In Sept. 1811, after his name had been for five months borne as a Supernumerary on the books of the Royal William, Capt. Robt. Hall, Ruby, Master-Commander Ferry, and Eurydice 24, Capt. Jas. Bradshaw, he joined the Atalanta 18, Capt. Fred. Hickey, under whom he assisted in the attack on Crany Island in June, 1813, and was wrecked, while acting as Master, on the Sisters Rocks, off Halifax lighthouse, 10 Nov. following. He then returned to England in the Nemesis 28, Capt. Hon. Jas. Ashley Maude; and, on 23 Feb. 1815, was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant. For several years subsequently to 1821 Mr. Pulling was employed in the Coast Guard service in Hampshire, where his exertions in the protection of the revenue brought him into frequent contact with bands of smugglers. In Dec. 1826 he was placed in command of the Skipjack schooner, on the Jamaica station, where he remained until promoted to the rank of Commander 8 Sept. 1829. He was afterwards again employed in the Coast Guard – from 7 Oct. 1831 until 1834 – from 24 May, 1836, until 1839 – and, from 30 March, 1840, until presented, 16 Jan. 1845, with a Post-commission. He has since been on half-pay. Capt. Pulling is Senior of 1845.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Puckford, James

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​PUCKFORD. (Commander, 1827. f-p., 17; h-p., 20.)
James Puckford entered the Navy 10 June, 1810, as Midshipman, on board the Nisus 38, Capts. Philip Beaver and Chas. Marsh Schomberg, under the former of whom he assisted at the reduction of the Isles of France and Java. He continued to serve on the Cape station until the early part of 1814; between which period and June, 1822, we find him employed in North America and the Channel, at St. Helena, and in South America in the Liffey 50, Capt. John Hancock, Newcastle 60, bearing the flag of Sir Pulteney Malcolm, Andromache 38, Capt. Wm. Henry Shirreff, and Superb 74, Capt. Adam Mackenzie. Of the ship last mentioned he became an acting and a confirmed Lieutenant 22 Feb. and 8 Sept. 1821. His subsequent appointments were – 13 Nov. 1822 to the Valorous 26, Capt. Jas. Murray, fitting for the West Indies, whence he returned in June, 1824 – and, 14 Sept. 1824, to the Chanticleer 10, commanded by Capt. Chas. Jas. Hope Johnstone, for a short time by himself as Acting-Commander, and by Capt. John Balfour Maxwell, on the Mediterranean station. He was advanced to his present rank on bis arrival in England 15 Dec. 1827; and has since been on half-pay.
Commander Puckford married, 10 Nov. 1834, Mary, daughter of the Rev. J. F. Muckston, D.D., Prebendary of Lichfield, by whom he has issue one daughter.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Pullen, William John Samuel

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​PULLEN. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
William John Samuel Pullen passed his examination 20 July, 1844; and after serving in that capacity in North America on board the Columbia steam surveying-vessel, Capt. Peter Fred. Shortland, was promoted to his present rank 9 Nov. 1846. He was re-appointed to the Columbia in the capacity of Additional-Lieutenant 3 Feb. 1847, and continued employed in her until paid off in 1848.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Short, Joseph

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​SHORT. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 13; h-p., 29.)
Joseph Short (b) entered the Navy, 22 Sept. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Porpoise, Capts. J. Short and John Porteous, in which vessel he was for about five years employed at New South Wales, part of the time as Master’s Mate and Acting-Lieutenant. He served subsequently, from Dec. 1810 until June, 1815, in the Mediterranean, Channel, and West Indies, in the Serapis, Master-Commander Wm. Lloyd, Haughty gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Jas. Harvey, Active 38, Capt. Jas. Alex. Gordon, Fervent 12, Capt. Chas. Hope Reid, Asia 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Wm. Brown, Shark sloop, Capts. John Gore, Chas. Sam. White, John Undrell, and Chas. Strangways, and Tortoise, Master-Commander Thos. Cooke. He was for seven months Second-Master of the Serapis and Haughty, and for 20, Acting-Master of the Shark. After he had been for nearly three months employed in Portsmouth Harbour in the Prince 98, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Thornbrough, Queen Charlotte 100, Britomart 10, Capt. Robt. Riddell (now Carre), and Pactolus 38, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer, he took up, in Oct. 1815, a commission bearing date 13 of the preceding March. His last appointment was to the Coast Blockade, on which service he continued for about three years as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye, and Ramillies 74, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot. Agents – Holmes and Folkard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Shirreff, Patrick

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​SHIRREFF. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 33.)
Patrick Shirreff entered the Navy, 26 July, 1804, as Midshipman, on board the Experiment 44, Capt. Geo. Chas. Mackenzie; on accompanying whom to the West Indies in the Wolfe 18, he was wrecked on Heneaga, one of the Bahama Islands, 5 Sept. 1806. A severe injury sustained on that occasion in the left leg (the effects of which he feels to this day) obliged him (after he had been for nearly four months employed in the Shark sloop, Capt. Henry Boys, and Cuba 36, Capt. Fred. Langford) to invalid home, in Jan. 1807, on board the Pelican 16, Capt. Wm. Ward. He subsequently, from Jan. 1808 until May, 1815, served, on the Home and North American stations, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the Texel and Ardent 64’s, both commanded by Capt. Jas. Giles Vashon, Childers sloop, Capt. Joseph Packwood, Ruby store-ship, Master-Commander David Ferrie, Goliath 74, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, and Tonnant 80, bearing the flag of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane. On leaving the ship last-mentioned, in which he had taken part in the expeditions to the Chesapeake and New Orleans, he took up a commission dated 9 Feb. 1815. He has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Shore, Samuel Sparshott

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​SHORE. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
Samuel Sparshott Shore passed his examination 16 June, 1835; and for his services in China as Mate of the Thalia 42, Capt. Chas. Hope, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 23 Dec. 1842. His next appointments were – 20 Oct. 1843, as Additional, to the Alfred 50, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore John Brett Purvis on the coast of Brazil – 2 Aug. 1844, to the Racer 16, Capt. Arch. Reed, on the coast of Africa – 8 Sept. 1846, again as Additional, to the Devastation steam-sloop. Commodore Sir Chas. Hotham, on the same station – and 30 Sept. 1846, for a few months, to the Coast Guard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Shortland, Peter Frederick

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​SHORTLAND. (Commander, 1848.)
Peter Frederick Shortland entered the Navy 15 Jan. 1827; passed his examination 4 Dec. 1834; was promoted (from the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings) to the rank of Lieutenant 1 April, 1842; and, from 11 May following until advanced to the rank of Commander 20 Jan. 1848, was employed on surveying service in North America in the Columbia steamer, commanded during that period by Lieuts. Alfred Kortright and John Harding, by Capt. Wm. Fitzwilliam Owen, and for upwards of two years by himself. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.