until Oct. 1834, and from Feb. 1835 until paid off in Jan. 1836;[1] was advanced to his present rank 10 Jan. 1837; and was afterwards, from Aug. 1841 until June, 1843, employed in command of the Impregnable 104 and Howe 120, flag-ships of Sir Fras. Mason in the Mediterranean, and, from 13 Aug. 1844 until 1848, of the Collingwood 80, hearing the flag of Sir Geo. Fras. Seymour in the Pacific. In the Satellite he made prize, 15 Nov. 1833 and 15 June, 1834, of the Paquete da Sol and Duquesa da Braganza slavers – one of them laden with 577 negroes.
On 18 April, 1832, Capt. Smart was nominated a K.H., and in the course of the same year he was created by the King of Prussia a Knight of the Order of the Red Eagle, in consideration of his having been selected to accompany from the river Thames to Germany a miniature frigate presented to that monarch by King William IV. He married, 14 Sept. 1848, Elizabeth Isabella, daughter of the late B. Sharpe, Esq., of Fleet-street, London, Banker.
SMITH. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Alexander John Smith is brother of Lieuts. Henry Thos. and Wm. Rich. Smith, R.N.; and cousin of Commander J. M. R. Ince, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 18 Dec. 1826, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Thetis frigate, Capts. Arthur Batt Bingham and Sam. Burgess, fitting for South America. On that ship being wrecked off Cape Frio 5 Dec. 1830, he returned to England in the Druid 46, Capt. Gawen Wm. Hamilton, and in the ensuing March was discharged. In Jan. 1832 he became Midshipman (a rating he had before attained) of the Harrier 18, Capt. Spencer Lambert Henry Vassal], then equipping for the East Indies, where he was actively employed in the suppression of piracy in the Straits of Malacca, and took part in two severe conflicts, which terminated in the destruction of the settlements at Poulo Arroa and Poulo Sujee. The Harrier having been paid off, he next, in Dec. 1835 (he had passed his examination 5 Aug. preceding), joined, in the capacity of Mate, the Cove sixth-rate, Capt. Jas. Clark Ross, with whom, in the ensuing Jan., he left England for the purpose of seeking out, and of conveying relief to, some missing whalers who had been frozen up in Baffin Bay. After serving for a few months on the north coast of Spain in the Salamander steamer, Capt. Sidney Colpoys Dacres, and for two years among the Orkneys, as extra Mate, in the Mastiff surveying-vessel, Master-Commander Geo. Thomas, he was again, in April, 1839, placed under the orders of Capt. J. C. Ross, as Senior Mate, on board the Erebus bomb, in which vessel he sailed, in Sept. of the same year, in company with the Terror, on a voyage of discovery to the Antarctic seas. For his services while so; employed he was promoted, 16 Aug. 1841, to the rank of Lieutenant. He came home in Sept. 1843; and since 1844 has been in charge of the observatory at Hobart Town.
SMITH. (Commander, 1841.)
Andrew Smith is second son of the late Andrew Smith,[2] Esq., Rear-Admiral of the Red, by Maria, only child of Wm. Hulke, Esq.
This officer entered the Navy, 22 March, 1812, as Midshipman, on board the Elizabeth, Lieut.-Commander Robt. Morris, lying at Greenock. After serving for a year and seven months at Leith in the Latona 38, bearing the flag of Sir Wm. Johnstone Hope, and Daphne 22, Capt. Jas. Green, he joined, in June, 1815, the Junon 38, Capts. Jas. Haldane Tait and Arthur Fanshawe, on the Jamaica station. He was next, from Aug. 1816 until he invalided in Oct. 1820, employed at Home and again in the West Indies in the Cherokee 10, Capt. Wm. Ramage, Ramillies 74 and Salisbury 58, flagships of Rear-Admirals Sir W. J. Hope and Donald Campbell, and Euryalus 42, Commodore Thos. Huskinson. While attached to the Salisbury he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 7 Aug. 1819, and was actively engaged in her boats in the suppression of piracy. His appointments after he left the Euryalus were – between 1821 and 1830, to the Dover 28, Prince Regent 120, and Britannia 120, flag-ships of Sir John Poo Beresford, Sir Benj. Hallowell, and Sir Jas. Saumarez, at Leith, Sheerness, and Plymouth, to the Meteor bomb, commanded in the Mediterranean by Capt. Jas. Scott, a second time to the Britannia, and to the Hussar 46, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Ogle at Halifax – in July, 1830, to the Victor 18, in the West Indies – 4 Dec. following, to the acting-command, for six months, of the Falcon 10 – 4 July, 1831, to the Winchester 52, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Griffith Colpoys, again in the West Indies – next, to the North Star 28, on the same station – and, 26 July, 1841, as Senior, to the Hastings 72, Capt. John Lawrence, in the Mediterranean. He was present in the Meteor in the demonstration made by Sir Harry Burrard Neale before Algiers in 1824; and on 27 Nov. in the same year he chanced to be in the Partridge sloop when wrecked off the coast of Holland. On that occasion, by remaining on board until all had landed, he was the main instrument of saving the lives of 27 of the crew. Since his last promotion, which took place 23 Nov. 1841, he has been on half-pay.
Commander Smith married, in 1836, Agnes Mary, daughter of Thos. Rattray, Esq., by whom he has issue a son and daughter.
SMITH. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 29.)
Andrew Smith (a) was born in Dec. 1793.
This officer entered the Navy, 23 Nov. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Cumberland 74, Capt. Hon. Philip Wodehouse, attached to the fleet in the Mediterranean, where he attained the rating of Midshipman in May, 1809, and continued to serve in the Cephalus 18 and Topaze 36, both commanded by Capt. Edw. Harvey, until Jan. 1812. He was next, until Dec. 1813, employed in the North Sea and Channel in the Chatham 74 and, as Master’s Mate, in the Ville de Paris 110, flagships of Admirals Matthew Henry Scott and Sir Wm. Johnstone Hope; and from the latter date until April, 1815, in the capacity last mentioned and as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Latona 38, bearing the flag of Sir W. J. Hope, Apelles 14, Capt. Alex. M‘Vicar, Oberon 14, Capt. Jas. Murray, Stork 18, Capt. Robt. Lisle Coulson, and Cherokee 10, Capt. Wm. Ramage – all on the Leith station. He was officially promoted 28 Aug. 1815, and served afterwards, from 4 Sept. in that year until 23 Oct. 1816, and from 17 Feb. 1817 until 24 June, 1819, again at Leith, in the Cherokee, commanded, as before, by Capt. Ramage, and in the Nimrod 18, Capt. John Windham Dalling. He has not been since afloat.
- ↑ From Oct. 1834 until Feb. 1835, he officiated as Second- Captain of the Blonde 46, Capt. Francis Mason.
- ↑ Rear-Admiral Andrew Smith was born 20 Mar. 1763, in Edinburgh, and entered the Navy in June, 1779, on board the Princess of Wales hired armed ship. He was present in the Victory 100, flag-ship of Admiral Geary, at the capture, 3 July, 1781 , of 12 sail of merchantmen, from Port-au-Prince, with cargoes on board valued at 91,000l.; and in the Fortitude 74, Capt. Rich. Bickerton, at the relief of Gibraltar by Admiral Darby, in the action with Admiral Zoutman off the Doggerbank, at the capture of a French convoy by the fleet under Vice-Admiral Barrington, at the relief of Gibraltar by Lord Howe, and in the partial action with the combined fleets of France and Spain off Cape Spartel, 20 Oct. 1762. He was made Lieutenant, 10 Aug. 1790, into the Rattler sloop; was promoted to the rank of Commander, after having fought in the Prince George 98, Capt. Jas. Gambier, in Lord Bridport’s action; and on 6 Jan. 17U7, previously to which he had been serving in the Calypso sloop, was advanced to Post-rank. From 1605 until 1810 he held an appointment in the Sea Fencibles at Lynn and at Berwick. During the next three years he superintended the Impress service at Greenock, and from Nov. 1813 until Sept. 1815 he commanded the Latona 38, flag-ship at Leith of Sir Wm. Johnstone Hope, under whom he had served, when Lieutenant, in the Incendiary fireship. He attained Flag-rank 19 July, 1821, and died suddenly, in Great King-street, Edinburgh, 89 Sept. 1831.
