in Aug. 1821, he was placed under the orders of Sir H. Blackwood, as Master’s Mate, in the Leander 60. He saw much boat-service in the Lacedaemonian and Niger; and in the Topaze he was wounded in an affair at Mocha. In 1822, having been promoted, at home, by a commission dated 9 Oct. in the preceding year, he returned to England in the ship last mentioned, then commanded by Capt. Price Blackwood. He served subsequently in the West Indies and Mediterranean, from 11 Dec. 1824 until 1827, in the Jasper 10, Capts. Chas. Howe Fremantle, Henry Martin Blackwood, and Leonard Chas. Rooke; and since 19 June, 1833, he has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard.
Lieut. Stephens married, 13 May, 1840, Miss Anne Savage Reid, of Lukesland Grove, Ivybridge.
STERNE. (Lieut., 1813. f-p., 32; h-p., 11.)
William Sterne entered the Navy,- 7 March, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Leda 38, Capt. Robt. Honyman. Continuing in that frigate until wrecked at the entrance of Milford Haven 31 Jan. 1808, he was present as Midshipman at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope (where he witnessed the surrender of the Rolla brig and Voluntaire frigate); likewise in all the operations in the Rio de la Plata which preceded the evacuation of Spanish America; and in the attack made by Admiral Gambier upon Copenhagen. On 9 Sept. 1805 he assisted as Midshipman at the destruction of an armed brig off Monte Video.[1] Being nominated, in Oct. 1808, Master’s Mate of the Proselyte bomb, Capt. Henry Jas. Lyford, he was again, in that vessel, wrecked, 5 Jan. 1809, by the ice in the neighbourhood of Anholdt, which island he succeeded, with the rest of the officers and ship’s company, in reaching, after a most severe and hazardous walk of eight miles. He remained at Anholdt until relieved, six weeks later, by the Ranger sloop, Capt. Geo. Acklom, under whom we find him, during the next three years, employed in the Baltic. From 6 May, 1813, until 30 Sept. 1814, he served as Acting-Lieutenant and Lieutenant (commission dated 23 Aug. in the former year) in the Semiramis 36, at the Cape of Good Hope; and since 11 Oct. 1823 he has filled the appointment of Inspecting Commander in the Coast Guard.
STEVENS. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Frederick Hildebrand Stevens entered the Navy 18 Sept. 1823; passed his examination 9 Nov. 1830; and, on the occasion of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant 28 July, 1841, was nominated Additional of the Britannia 120, flag-ship of Sir John Acworth Ommanney in the Mediterranean; where he had been serving latterly, as Mate, on board the Medea steamer, Capt. Fred. Warden. His appointments have since been – in the course of the same year, to the Powerful 84, Capt. Michael Seymour, fitting at Portsmouth – 26 March, 1842, to the Queen 110, flag-ship of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen in the Mediterranean – 18 Jan. and 8 April, 1843, and 12 Sept. 1844, to the Geyser steamer, Medea again, and Orestes 18, Capts. Edw. John Carpenter, F. Warren, and Edw. St. Leger Cannon, on the same station – 14 Nov. 1846, to the America 50., Capt. Sir Thos. Maitland, employed on particular service – and, 30 Nov. 1847, to the Inconstant 36, Capt. John Shepherd, now on the S.E. coast of America. In the Powerful and Queen he was Additional, and in the Geyser, Orestes, and America First, Lieutenant. Of the Inconstant he is at present Second-Lieutenant. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
STEVENS. (Commander, 1842.)
James Agnew Stevens entered the Navy, 9 Aug. 1803, as Sec.-cl. Boy, on board the Sulphur bomb, Capt. Danl. M‘Leod; and on 14 of the ensuing month was wounded in an attack upon the town of Granville. Removing with Capt. M‘Leod, in Oct. 1804, to the Cygnet sloop, commanded afterwards by Capt. Robt. Bell Campbell, he proceeded in that vessel to the West Indies; where, in June and Aug. 1806, he became Midshipman and Master’s Mate of the Northumberland 74, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, and Alligator, Capt. R. B. Campbell. In Dec. of the same year he joined the Seahorse of 42 guns and 281 men, Capt. John Stewart, attached to the force in the Mediterranean; and on the night of 5 July, 1808, he contributed to the capture, after a memorably furious engagement, and a loss to the Seahorse (30 of whose crew were absent) of 5 men killed and 10 wounded, of the Turkish man-of-war Badere Zaffer, mounting 52 guns, with a complement of 543 men, of whom 170 were slain and 200 wounded. The Alis Fezan, of 26 guns and 230 men, a ship which had been also opposed to the Seahorse, was at the same time put to flight. While on his passage, 2 Oct. 1809, with despatches to Rear-Admiral Geo. Martin at Palermo, Mr. Stevens was again wounded and taken prisoner by the French. He was detained at Naples until 17 Feb. 1811; and being then exchanged he rejoined the Seahorse, in which ship, after serving for a short time with Sir Chas. Cotton in the San Josef 110, he returned in the following June to England an invalid. His promotion to the rank of Lieutenant took place 7 July, 1812. At the commencement of the peace he had command, under the authority of the Post-office and Admiralty, of the Pelham and Uxbridge Falmouth and Holyhead packets; and he was afterwards, from 18 May, 1837, until advanced to his present rank 4 May, 1842, employed in the Packet-service at Weymouth, with his name on the books of the Victory 104, bearing the flag of the Admiral Superintendent at Portsmouth; where, since 28 Jan. 1848, he has been officiating as Second-Captain of the Blenheim steam guard-ship, Capt. Horatio Thos. Austin. Commander Stevens’ eldest daughter is the wife of Commander Jonas Archer Abbott, R.N.
STEVENSON. (Retired Commander, 1846. f-p., 7; h-p., 39.)
Charles Goude Stevenson entered the Navy, in Feb. 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Robust 74, Capt.Wm. Brown, with whom he served off Rochefort and on the Irish station, the latter part of the time in the Hussar 38, until the spring of 1802. In the summer of 1803 he was again placed under the command of the same officer in the Romney 50; in which ship he made a voyage to the coast of Africa and the West Indies, and continued employed in the capacity of Midshipman with Capt. Hon. John Colville, until wrecked in the Texel 19 Nov. 1804. He next, in Feb. 1805, became Master’s Mate of the Otter sloop, Capt. John Davies, stationed at first in the Downs and then at the Cape of Good Hope; and in July and Aug. 1808 (he had left the Otter in the preceding April) he was successively nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Lyra and Apelles sloops, the former lying in the river Thames. In the Apelles, to which vessel, commanded in the Downs by Capt. Thos. Oliver, he was confirmed 27 Oct. 1808, he continued until ill health obliged him, in Nov. 1809, to seek half-pay. He accepted his present rank 20 April, 1846. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
STEVENSON. (Rear-Admiral, 1846. f-p., 23; h-p., 41.)
James Stevenson entered the Navy, in 1783, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Bonetta sloop, Capt. Rich. Goodwin Keats, stationed on the coast of North America; where he continued employed until Nov. 1789, part of the time as Midshipman, in the Assistance, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Douglas, Hermione 32, Capt. Stone, Resource, Capt. Paul Minchin, Brisk, Capt. Edw. Buller, and Thisbe 28, Capt. Sam. Hood. He served next with the officer last mentioned in the Channel and West Indies, from May, 1790, until April, 1792, in the Juno 32; and in Aug. 1796 he joined the Centurion 50, Capt. Sam. Osborne, in the East Indies; on which station
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1807, p. 326.
