Alex. Ball. For his conduct as First-Lieutenant of the ship last mentioned at the battle of the Nile he was promoted to the rank of Commander 8 Oct. 1798. He was employed in the Sea Feneibles in Ireland from 1 March, 1806, until 28 Feb. 1810; and in raising seamen for the service in Dublin from 23 Feb. 1811 until 31 Aug. 1816. He was admitted to the Out-Pension of Greenwich Hospital 8 June, 1824; and is now the senior officer of his rank in the Navy.
One of Commander Whipple’s daughters, Matilda Elizabeth, married, 23 Nov. 1841, G. K. Bell, Esq., of the Bombay Artillery; and another, Mary, 7 Jan. 1845, Lieut. Sam. Brooking Dolling, R.N.
WHIPPLE. (Lieutenant, 1840.)
Thomas Connell O’Donnell Whipple was born 9 Sept. 1813.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 9 March, 1827, and embarked, 13 March, 1829, as a Volunteer, on board the Galatea 42, Capt. Chas. Napier, in which frigate he continued employed on particular service, part of the time in the capacity of Midshipman, until Jan. 1832. He served afterwards on the Home, West India, Lisbon, and Mediterranean stations, as Midshipman and Mate (he passed his examination 19 June, 1833), in the Nimrod 20, Capt. Lord Edw. Russell, Savage 10, Lieut.-Commander Robt. Loney, Russell 74, Capt. Sir Wm. Henry Dillon, Weazle 10, Lieut.-Commanders M‘Ilwaine and John Simpson, and Powerful 84, Capt. C. Napier. His conduct in the ship last mentioned in the operations on the coast of Syria and at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre procured him a commission dated 4 Nov. 1840. His subsequent appointments were – 15 Dec. 1840, as Additional-Lieutenant, to the Princess Charlotte 104, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford in the Mediterranean – 15 Jan. 1841, again to the Powerful, Capts. Geo. Mansel and Michael Seymour, on the same station – 5 Feb. 1842, to the Agincourt 72, fitting for the flag of Sir Thos. John Cochrane, Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies, whence he invalided 27 Dec. following – 2 Feb. and 19 July, 1844, and 30 Jan. 1845, to the Camperdown 104, Queen 110, and Trafalgar 120, flag-ships of Sir John Chambers White and Sir Edw. Durnford King at Sheerness – and 15 June, 1846, as Senior, to the Dido 18, Capt. John Balfour Maxwell, with whom he returned to the East Indies. He came home and was paid off in the early part of 1849. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
WHISH. (Captain, 1841. f-p., 16; h-p., 23.)
William George Hyndham Whish entered the Navy, 27 June, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the St. George 98, Capt. Edw. Sneyd Clay, successive flag-ship, in the Channel and Baltic, of Rear-Admirals Fras. Pickmore and Elias Harvey. In Feb. 1810 he removed to the Hussar 38, Capt. Alex. Skene, on the Guernsey station; he became Midshipman, in the following summer, of the Nymphe frigate, Capt. E. S. Clay, in the North Sea; and from Jan. 1811 until Sept. 1815, he was employed at the Cape of Good Hope, in the Mediterranean, and again off Guernsey in the Curaçoa 36, Capt. John Tower. In Oct. of the year last mentioned he was rated Master’s Mate of the Mutine sloop, Capt. Jas. Mould; in which vessel he sailed in 1816 with the expedition against Algiers. On the memorable 27 Aug. he was doing duty on board the Invincible battery-ship, Lieut.-Commander Rich. Howell Fleming. He returned to England with Lord Exmouth in the Queen Charlotte 100; was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 16 Sept. 1816; and was appointed next – 9 June, 1818, to the Impregnable 104, bearing the flag of Lord Exmouth at Plymouth – and, 13 July, 1821, and 17 Aug. and 4 Dec. 1824, to the Bustard 10, Capts. Wm. Geo. Martin, Jas. Wigston, Edwin Ludlow Rich, and Rawdon Maclean, Serapis, Capt. Geo. Vernon Jackson, and Dartmouth 42, Capt. Henry Dundas, all in the West Indies. On 11 Nov. 1825, he was promoted to the command, which he retained but for a short period, of the Beaver sloop. His last appointment was, 26 Jan. 1837, to the Gannet 16, on the North America and West India station, whence he returned home and was paid off in the early part of 1838. He attained his present rank 23 Nov. 1841.
Capt. Whish married, 2 June, 1828, Julia, second daughter of the late John Vivian, Esq., of Portland Place, London, and Claverton, co. Somerset, sister-in-law of Capt. Jas. Rattray, R.N.
WHITAKER. (Commander, 1840. f-p., 12; h-p., 32.)
Thomas Whitaker entered the Navy, 6 Aug. 1803, as Midshipman, on board the Melpomène 38, Capt. Robt. Dudley Oliver; with whom, and with Capts. Wm. Lukin and Jas. Katon, he served in the Mars 74, from Nov. 1805 until made Lieutenant, 22 Dec. 1809, into the Kent 74, Capt. Thos. Rogers – the latter part of the time in the capacity of Master’s Mate. In the Melpomène he twice assisted at the bombardment of Havre-de-Grace, and cruized among the Western Islands. In the Mars he contributed, 28 July, 1806, to the capture, off the coast of France, after a chase of more than 150 miles, and in the presence of three other French frigates, of Le Rhin of 44 guns and 318 men. He was also present with a squadron under Sir Sam. Hood at the capture, off Rochefort, 25 Sept. following, of four heavy frigates, two of which, the Gloire 46 and Infatigdble 44, struck to the Mars; and, besides assisting at the siege of Copenhagen in Aug. and Sept. 1807, was actively employed in affording protection to the Baltic trade. On one occasion, while skylarking in the cockpit, he had the misfortune, by a biscuit being thrown at him, to be deprived of the sight of an eye. During the period of his servitude in the Kent, which ship he left in Jan. 1813, he was stationed off Lisbon and in the Mediterranean, and shared, in 1812, in one or two slight skirmishes with the Toulon fleet. His last appointment was, in Sept. 1813, to the Queen 74, successive flag-ship of Sir Fras. Laforey and Sir Chas. Vinicombe Penrose, under whom he was two years employed in the West Indies and again in the Mediterranean. He was advanced to the rank he now holds by a commission bearing date 13 June, 1815.
Commander Whitaker is married and has issue.
WHITCOMBE. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 13; h-p., 27.)
Samuel Richard Whitcombe entered the Navy, 16 May, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Révolutionnaire 38, Capt. Chas. Feilding, stationed in the Channel and off the coast of Portugal. In March, 1808, he joined the Matilda, flag-ship of Sir Henry Edwin Stanhope in the river Thames; and in May, 1809, after having served for 11 months in the North Sea and Channel and off Cadiz in the Triumph 74, Capt. Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy, he was received as Midshipman on board the Barfleur 98, bearing the flag off Lisbon of Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley. While in the latter ship, in which he remained until Feb. 1812, he was employed in her boats in co-operation with the British army up the Tagus. On leaving her he joined the Naijaden frigate, Capt. Farmery Predam Epworth, at Plymouth; and from the following April until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 6 March, 1815, he served in the Pomone 40, Capts. Fras. Wm. Fane and Philip Carteret, and Narcissus 32, at Newfoundland, in the Downs, on the north coast of Spain, on the coast of Portugal, at Gibraltar, and on the coast of North America. His subsequent appointments were – 13 July, 1816, to the Jasper 10, Capt. Thos. Carew – 14 Dec. 1821, to the Dover 28, flag-ship of Sir John Poo Beresford at Leith – and 26 April, 1824, to the Harrier 18, Capt. Geo. Gosling, on the Irish station. In the Jasper, after visiting Gibraltar and Newfoundland, he was wrecked on the point of Mount Batten, at the entrance of Catwater, 21 Jan. 1817; on which occasion
