SLADE. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Edgar Slade was born 28 July, 1806. He is nephew of the late Capt. Jas. Slade, R.N.; and cousin of Commander Henry Slade, R.N., and Capt. Andw. Drew, R.N. His brother, Ferguson Slade, Mate of the Lynx brigantine, was lost in a prize on the coast of Africa in 1841.
This officer entered the Navy, 15 April, 1821, as Clerk, on board the Snap 10, Lieut.-Commanders John Hose and Fred. Bullock, employed until paid off in Jan. 1827, on surveying-service at Newfoundland. In Feb. of the latter year he became Midshipman (a rating he had attained in the Snap at the commencement of 1825) of the Victory 104, Capts. Chas. Inglis and Hon. Geo. Elliot, guardship at Portsmouth; and in the following Aug., two months after he had passed his examination, he was appointed Mate of the Warspite 76, Capts. Hon. Rich. Saunders Dundas and Wm. Parker. In that ship he was stationed at first off Lisbon, and next in the Mediterranean, where we find him assisting at the blockade of Navarin and conveying the Count Capo d’Istria to Egeria on his election to the Presidency of Greece. In Sept. 1828 he removed to the Wellesley 74, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, also in the Mediterranean; and on his return to England in Sept. 1830 he assumed command of the Jane Revenue tender; in which vessel he continued employed in the Irish Channel and on the coast of Scotland until Feb. 1840. He was then appointed to a station in the Coast Guard; and from 27 May, 1841, until he again joined that service 30 Sept. 1843, he was engaged, under Capt. Chas. Jepp Robinson, in surveying the river Clyde. While there he was promoted, 14 Dec. 1841, to the rank of Lieutenant, and appointed, 15 Dec. 1842 and 31 Jan. 1843, to the Gleaner and Shearwater steam-vessels. Until he finally left the Coast Guard in 1848 he had not been one month out of employ since he entered the Navy, a period of more than 26 years.
Lieut. Slade married, 24 March, 1833, Alicia, daughter of Jas. Melville, Esq.
SLADE. (Lieutenant, 1811. f-p., 10; h-p., 33.)
Frederick Slade entered the Navy, 27 June, 1804, as L.M., on board the Culloden 74, Capt. Christopher Cole, fitting for the flag of Sir Edw. Pellew, Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies, where he attained the rating of Midshipman in May, 1805, and assisted at the destruction, 27 Nov. 1806, of a Dutch frigate, seven brigs-of-war, and about 20 armed and other merchant-vessels lying in Batavia Roads. From Sept. 1807 until Aug. 1810 he was employed in the Baltic and Mediterranean, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the Salsette and Nereus frigates, Capts. Walter Bathurst and Peter Heywood. He then joined the Christian VII. 80, bearing the flag of Sir B. Pellew off the Texel; and after again serving with that officer in the Mediterranean in the Caledonia 120, was nominated, 16 Aug. 1811, Acting-Lieutenant of the Cumberland 74, Capts. Robt. Waller Otway and Thos. Baker. He was confirmed 26 Sept. following, but invalided towards the close of the same year, and was lastly, from March, 1812, until Jan. 1814, employed, a second time in the Baltic, in the Zealous 74, Capt. Thos. Boys. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
SLADE. (Commander, 1825. f-p., 17; h-p., 30.)
Henry Slade is nephew of the late Capt. Jas. Slade, R.N.; and cousin of Lieut. Edgar Slade, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 March, 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol, on board the Spanker, lying at Sheerness, where he remained until April, 1802. He next, in May, 1803, joined the Princess Augusta yacht; and in Aug. of the same year the Fisguard 42, Capts. Lord Mark Robt. Kerr and Wm. Bolton. In the boats of the latter ship he took part, as Midshipman, in an attack made in 1805 on a Greek pirate off the Cape de Gata. After serving for rather more than three years off Rochefort and Lisbon, and again in the Mediterranean, part of the time as Master’s Mate, in the Kent 74 and Canopus 80, flag-ships of Admirals Edw. Thornbrough and Geo. Martin, he was made Lieutenant, 12 Nov. 1808, into the Philomel sloop, Capts. Geo. Crawley, Geo. Downie, and Geo. Davies. Continuing in that vessel until May, 1810, he commanded her boats at the storming of the fort of Reggio, at the taking of Zante, Cephalonia, and Ithaca, and at the capture and destruction, on the nignt of 31 Oct. 1809, by the boats of a squadron under Lieut. John Tailour, after a fearful struggle and a loss to the British of 15 men killed and 55 wounded, of the French store-ship Lamproie of 16 guns and 116 men, bombards Victoire and Grondeur, and armed xebec Normamde, with a convoy of seven merchant-vessels, defended by numerous strong batteries in the Bay of Rosas. Between May, 1810, and May, 1815, he was employed on the Home, West India, and North American stations, in the Armide 38, Capts. Ferdinand Lucius Hardyman and Rich. Bailing Dunn, Tremendous 74, Capt. Robt. Campbell, Aquilon 32, Capts. Hon. Wm. Pakenham and Wm. Bowles, Asia 74, Capt. Geo. Scott, and Bulwark 74, Capts. David Milne and Farmery Predam Epworth. While in the ship last mentioned he accompanied an expedition under Capt. Robt. Barrie up the Penobscot, where he commanded a party of seamen on shore at the capture of the towns of Hamden and Bangor, 3 Sept. 1814.[1] He was afterwards, from Dec. 1820 until paid off, 5 Feb. 1824, employed on particular service in the Seringapatam 46, Capt. Sam. Warren; and on 27 May, 1825, he was advanced to the rank of Commander. He has since been on half-pay.
SLADE. (Captain, 1810.)
James Slade was born in 1768 at Childhay, Burstock, co. Dorset, and died 25 Oct. 1846. He was uncle of Commander Henry, and Lieut. Edgar, Slade, R.N., and cousin of Commander Adolphus Slade, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1781, as a Boy, on board the Amphion frigate, Capt. John Bazely, stationed on the coast of North America; where and in the West Indies he served, from 1783 until 1786, as Midshipman, in the Cyrus, Lieut.-Commanders Turner, Davidson, Brown, and Johnson. He then returned to England in the Unicorn 20, Capt. Chas. Stirling, and during the remainder of the peace was employed in the Edgar 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Leveson Gower, Endymion, Lieut-Commander Dan. Woodriff, Dictator 64, Capt. West, London 98, Royal Sovereign 100, and Victory 100, each bearing the flag of the late Lord Hood, and Romney 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Sam. Cranston Goodall. In the Endymion he made a voyage to Quebec and back; and in the Romney (the other ships were on the Home station) he proceeded to the Mediterranean; where he was nominated, 8 April, 1792, Acting-Lieutenant of the Fury 14, Capts. Frank Sotheron and Henry Lidgbird Ball. In that vessel, to which he was confirmed 8 April, 1793, we find him affording protection to the trade between England and Portugal, accompanying an expedition under Earl Moira and Rear-Admiral M‘Bride to the coasts of Normandy and Brittany, and assisting, while attached to a squadron under Sir John Borlase Warren, at the capture, 23 Jan. 1794, of La Vipère national corvette. From May, 1795, until promoted, 2 Sept. 1799, to the command of L’Espiègle sloop, he again served with Capt. Sotheron at Newfoundland and in the North Sea, in the Romney 50, bearing the flag of Sir Jas. Wallace, and, as First-Lieutenant, in the Latona 38. During his servitude in the latter ship he was placed in charge of the Crash gun-brig, and sent, 13 Aug. 1799 [errata 1], with the Undaunted armed schuyt and the boats of a small squadron under his orders, to attack the Vengeance schooner, of 6 guns and 70 men, and a row-boat, both moored under a battery of 4 long 12-pounders and 2 brass 4-pounders, on the island of Schiermonikoog. Although the Crash grounded too far from the shore to be of much ser-
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1814, p. 2027.
