A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hall, Henry Watson
HALL. (Lieutenant, 1814. f-p., 26; h-p., 18.)
Henry Watson Hall entered the Navy, 6 March, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Culloden 74, Capt. Chas. Hen. Lane, on the Home station, where he successively removed, in the course of the same year, to the Salvador del Mundo and Monarch, flag-ships of Sir John Colpoys and Lord Keith. Being discharged in Oct. 1804 he did not again go afloat until Jan. 1810, when he re-embarked on board the Emerald 36, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, whom he soon afterwards accompanied to the Cape of Good Hope. During the years 1812-13 we find him cruizing in the Channel and off Newfoundland, as Midshipman, in the Pheasant 18, Capt. John Palmer. He then rejoined Lord Keith on board the Queen Charlotte 100; and, obtaining his commission 16 Aug. 1814, was subsequently appointed – 18 Dec. 1814, for a period of seven months, to the Rhin 38, Capt. Chas. Malcolm, off the coast of France – 25 Dec. 1819, to the Tamar frigate, Capts. Arthur Stow and Sir Wm. Saltonstall Wiseman, in which he served on the Jamaica station until his health obliged him to invalid – 27 April, 1830, to the Coast Guard – and, 14 March, 1834, to the Directorship of Police at Portsmouth Dockyard, a situation he still holds.