A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Akers, Thomas
AKERS. (Lieutenant, 1813. f-p., 11; h-p., 33.)
Thomas Akers was born 29 June, 1784. One of his brothers, James, served in Nelson’s attack on the Boulogne flotilla in 1801, and was in the Northumberland, off St. Domingo, 6 Feb. 1806; another, Henry, was with Sir Home Popham in the Diadem, at the capture of Buenos Ayres in 1806; and a third, William, served in the Dover and Caroline frigates, at the reduction of Amboyna and Banda, in 1810. This officer entered the Navy, in Oct. 1803, as A. B., on board the Loire 36, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, employed on the Irish station. On removing, in 1805, to the Prince 98, Capt. Rich. Grindall, he took part in the battle of Trafalgar; and, while next in the Goliath 74, Capt. Peter Puget, he co-operated in the reduction of Copenhagen in Sept. 1807. After serving for a few months as Midshipman of the Blake 74, Capt. Edw. Codrington, he joined, in April, 1809, the Rolla brig, Capts. Sam. Clarke and Wm. Hill, under whom he appears to have accompanied the expedition to the Walcheren, and to have been severely wounded in different parts of the body while skirmishing in the Downs, where, in an open boat, he was very successful in his exertions against the smugglers. On his subsequent arrival at the Brazils in the Indefatigable 44, Capt. John Fyffe, Mr. Akers was promoted (having passed his examination in 1810) to a Lieutenancy, 16 July, 1813, in the Montagc 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Manley Dixon. He returned home with convoy in the Nisus 38, Capt. Chas. Marsh Schomberg, and was paid off in April, 1814.
He married, 1 Oct. 1816, and has issue three sons.