the Pandora he took up a commission dated 19 July, 1821 – awarded in honour of the coronation of George IV. From 9 Jan. 1827 until Dec. 1830, he served in the Coast Blockade, with his name on the books of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye; and, since 14 Oct. 1834, he has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard.
SHORTT. (Lieutenant, 1843.)
Francis Henry Shortt entered the Navy 14 May, 1836; passed his examination 1 June, 1842; and after having been for two years and a half Mate of the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 22 Dec. 1843. From 23 Feb. 1844 until paid off at the close of 1847, he served in the Pacific and Channel and off the coast of Portugal in the America 50., Capts. Hon. John Gordon and Sir Thos. Maitland; and, from 1 Feb. until June, 1848, at Portsmouth in the Powerful 84, Capt. Hon. Rich. Saunders Dundas.
SHULDHAM. (Retired Commander, 1843. f-p., 20; h-p., 34.)
Molyneux Shuldham is third son of the late Arthur Lemuel Shuldham, Esq., of Dunmanway, co. Cork, and of Pallis Green, co. Limerick, who resided for many years at Deerpark, Devon, and was Deputy-Lieutenant for that co., and Lieutenant-Colonel of the East Devon Yeomanry Cavalry, by his first wife, Maria, daughter of the late Sir Wm. Anderson, Bart., formerly of Kilnwick Percy, Yorkshire, and of Lea Hall, Lincolnshire. He is brother (with the present Edm. Wm. Shuldham, Esq., of Dunmanway, Major-General E.I.Co.’s service, for some years Quarter-Master General at Bombay) of the late Lieut. John Geo. Evelyn Shuldham, R.N., of Mr. Henry Geo. Shuldham, Midshipman, R.N., who was killed at the taking of Surinam, and of the late Lieut.-Colonel Arthur Shuldham, E.I.C.S.
This officer entered the Navy, 5 Jan. 1793, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Alarm, Capt. Lewis Robertson, attached to the force in the Channel. On removing with Capt. Robertson to the Veteran 64, commanded afterwards by Capt. Wm. Hancock Kelly, he took part, in 1794, in the attack made by Commodore Ford on the island of St. Domingo. He next, in the course of 1796-7, became Midshipman (a rating he had previously attained) of the Unité 36, Capt. Chas. Rowley, Braakel 54, Capt. Thos. Bertie, and Lord Mulgrave, all on the Home station; and on 15 April, 1799, about which period he suffered shipwreck on the coast of Ireland, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His subsequent appointments were – 13 May, 1799, to the Seagull, Capts. Henry Wray and Thos. Lavie, stationed off Guernsey – 17 Jan. 1801, to the Edgar 74, Capts. Edw. Buller, Geo. Murray, and Robt. Waller Otway, under the second named of whom he fought at Copenhagen 2 April, 1801 – 5 April, 1803, and 15 March, 1804, to the Royal Sovereign 100 and Kent 74, Capts. Rich. Curry and Pulteney Malcolm, employed in the Channel and Mediterranean – 18 April, 1805, to the Royal William, Capt. John Wainwright, lying at Spithead – and, 6 March, 1806, to the command of the Adder gun-brig. The latter vessel being driven on shore and captured near Abreval 9 Dec following, he remained a prisoner of war in France from that period until April, 1814. He accepted the rank of Retired Commander on the Senior List 10 June, 1843.
In May, 1816, Commander Shuldham was presented with the gold Isis medal, and with the silver medal of the Society of Arts for his improved pullies and blocks, and his improvements in working a capstan; and in the session of 1817-18 he received another silver medal from the same Society for his ‘New Method of Ballasting Vessels.’ He married Fanny, daughter of the Rev. F. T. Maunton Orgill Leman, of Brampton Hall, Suffolk, and has a numerous family. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
SHUTE. (Commander, 1841.)
Henry George Shute was born 20 Dec. 1808.
This officer entered the Navy, 13 Nov. 1823, on board the Alacrity 10, Capt. Hon. Chas. Philip Yorke (now Earl of Hardwicke), stationed in the Mediterranean, where he assisted in the boats at the capture, on different occasions, of not less than 23 piratical vessel. On the paying off of the Alacrity in 1827, he joined first the Hyperion 42, and next the Alligator 28; in which latter ship, commanded by his former Captain, Yorke, he was for 18 months again employed in the Mediterranean. Having passed his examination in 1829, he became, in 1830, Mate of the Aetna, Capt. Edw. Belcher, under whom we find him for some time constantly engaged in the boats in surveying different rivers on the coast of Africa to the northward of Sierra Leone. The Aetna was put out of commission in the summer of 1833, and in 1834 Mr. Shute, after he had been for about a year in the Portuguese service,[1] joined the Racer 16, Capt. Jas. Hope, on the North America and West India station. About the end of 1837 he took a passage in the Melville 72, flag-ship of the Hon. Geo. Elliot, for the purpose of reaching the Scout 18, Capt. Robt. Craigie, then on the coast of Africa. Being awarded a commission dated 28 June, 1838, he was reappointed 19 July following to the Melville, in the capacity of Additional-Lieutenant. In June, 1839, he returned to England in the Pylades 18, Capt. Wm. Langford Castle; and, on 3 Jan. 1840, he was appointed, a second time as Additional-Lieutenant, to the Wellesley 72, Capt. Thos. Maitland, at that time in the East Indies. On his arrival in China in the Blenheim 72, Capt. Sir Humphrey Fleming Senhouse, he was appointed Second of the Modeste 18, Capt, Harry Eyres; and for his services in that sloop during the operations connected with the first and second capture of Canton,[2] he was particularly recommended and was in consequence promoted to the rank of Commander 8 June, 1841. Prior to the receipt of his commission he appears to have assisted as Senior of the same vessel at the taking of Amoy, Chusan, Chinghae, and Ningpo, and to have returned home as First of the Larne 18, Capt. Patrick John Blake. He has been employed, since _30 June, 1847, as an Inspecting Commander in the Coast Guard. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
SHUTTLEWORTH. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 31.)
Peter Shuttleworth entered the Navy, 14 Sept. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Malta 80, Capts. Edw. Buller and Wm. Shield, employed in the Channel and also in the Mediterranean, where, in Aug. 1808, he removed as Midshipman (nearly 12 months after he had attained that rating) to the Montagu 74, Capts. Rich. Hussey Moubray and John Halliday. From May, 1811, until presented, in Oct. 1815, with a commission bearing date 21 Feb. in that year, he served off Cherbourg, Flushing, and Calais, on the north coast of Spain, and in North America and the West Indies, in the Egmont 74, Capt. Joseph Bingham, Insolent 14, Capt. Edw. Brazier, Fox 32, Capts. Wm. Paterson and John Knill Kinsman, Anaconda, Capt. Geo. Augustus Westphal, and Fox again, Capt. Frank Gore Willock. He has not been since afloat.
Lieut. Shuttleworth has been for some years Emigration Agent at Sligo, where he married, in 1836,
- ↑ Mr. Shute joined the Portuguese Navy as Lieutenant under Admiral Sartorius, and after the action with the Miguelite squadron was created a Knight of the Tower and Sword, and promoted to the command of the Villa Flor brig of 16 guns. While in that vessel he was frequently engaged with the batteries to the northward of Oporto, and was made the bearer of despatches to Admiral Napier, by whom he was nominated second Captain of the Donna Maria frigate. In her he shared in the victory gained by Don Pedro’s fleet off Cape St. Vincent. For his conduct on that occasion he was a second time presented with the Order of the Tower and Sword, and appointed to the command of the Eliza corvette of 26 guns. He contributed subsequently to the reduction of the fortified towns of Caminha and Viana, and was in command of the boats of the squadron at Valentia.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, pp. 1503-5, 2505, 2510.
