A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Clements, Hanbury
CLEMENTS. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 8; h-p., 33.)
Hanbury Clements entered the Navy, 21 Aug. 1806, as Clerk, on board the Morne Fortunée 12, Lieut.-Commander John Jas. Rorie, on the Jamaica station, where he attained the rating of Midshipman, 1 Jan. 1807, and assisted at the capture of the Babillon Spanish privateer of 2 guns and 45 men. On removing, next, to the Polyphemus 64, Capt. Wm. Pryce Cumby, he witnessed, 6 July, 1809, the surrender of the city of St. Domingo; subsequently to which he came home in the Favourite sloop, Capt. Benj. Clement, experiencing en route the effects of a fearful hurricane. After an intermediate servitude on board the Neptune and Swiftsure, he joined the Laurel 38, Capt. Sam. Campbell Rowley, in which he was wrecked on the Govivas Rock, in the Teigneuse Passage, 31 Jan. 1812. From that period Mr. Clements remained a prisoner of war in France until May, 1814. He was advanced to his present rank, on his return home, 15 March, 1815; but has not since been afloat.