A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hubbard, William (a)
HUBBARD. (Commander, 1838.)
William Hubbard entered the Navy, 24 April, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Triumph 74, Capt. Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy, in which ship, and as Midshipman, in the Barfleur 98, he served with the same officer, on the American and Lisbon stations, until March, 1811. Being then appointed Master’s Mate of the Manilla 36, Capts. Geo. Fras. Seymour and John Joyce, he was in that frigate wrecked, on the Haak sand, near the Texel, 28 Jan. 1812; from which period until the peace of 1814, it was his misfortune to be detained a prisoner of war. After again serving for a few months with Sir T. M. Hardy in the Ramillies 74, Mr. Hubbard took up a commission dated 4 March, 1815. His succeeding appointments were – in July, 1816, and Feb. 1817, to the Perseus 22, and Tamar 28, both commanded by Capt. Thos. Rich. Toker, on the Newfoundland station – about April, 1822, to the Ariadne 26, Capts. Constantine Rich. Moorsom and Isham Fleming Chapman, at the Cape of Good Hope – 25 Feb. 1826, to the Prince Regent 120, flag-ship of Sir Robt. Moorsom at the Nore, where he was paid off in July, 1827 – 9 Oct. 1829, as Senior Lieutenant, to the Volage 28, Capt. Lord Colchester, under whom he escorted the ex-Emperor and Empress of Brazil to Cherbourg in April, 1831, and was employed during the winter of 1832 in enforcing the Dutch embargo – and 28 Jan. 1837 (after four years of half-pay), in a similar capacity, to the Malabar 74, Capt. Sir Wm. Augustus Montagu, off Lisbon. He was promoted to the rank of Commander 28 June, 1838 – a few months after the latter ship had been put out of Commission – but has not been since afloat.