he, the Captain, and two seamen were the only persons who escaped. Since he quitted the Harrier about 1825, he has been on half-pay. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
WHITE. (Commander, 1846. f-p., 17; h-p., 25.)
Frederick White entered the Navy, 3 Sept. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Africa 64, Capt. Henry Digby; and on 21 Oct. following was wounded at the battle of Trafalgar.[1] The injury he sustained procured him a grant from the Patriotic Fund. In Dec. 1805 (he had already attained the rating of Midshipman) he removed, at Gibraltar, to the Beagle 18, Capt. Geo. Digby; with whom, in the early part of 1806, he returned to England, we believe, in the Swiftsure 74. In the course of the same year he joined the Zealand 64, Capt. Henry Lidgbird Ball, at the Nore, the Majestic 74, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Thos. Macnamara Russell in the North Sea, and the Orestes 16, Capt. John Richards Lapenotiere. After uniting in the latter vessel in Lord Gambier’s attack upon Copenhagen he was again, in Jan. 1808, placed under the command of Capt. Geo. Digby in the Cossack 24; in which ship he continued employed in the Channel under Capt. Thos. Garth, until April, 1812; in the course of which month we find him rejoining Capt. Digby on board the Lavinia frigate in the Mediterranean. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 10 Feb. 1812; and was appointed subsequently – 2 Sept. 1812, to the Chanticleer sloop, Capts. Rich. Spear and Stewart Blacker, in the North Sea – 21 Oct. 1813, after three or four months of half-pay, occasioned by ill-health, to the Colossus 74, Capt. Thos. Alexander, stationed in the Roompot – 4 March, 1814, to the Rinaldo 10, Capts. Edm. Lyons and Archibald Tisdall, in which vessel he escorted the Allied Sovereigns to England, and then proceeded to the West Indies, whence he invalided in the ensuing Dec – 28 Feb. 1837, for upwards of three years, to the Coast Guard – 23 Dec. 1841, to the post of Admiralty Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel – and 24 Aug. 1843, to the Ocean 80, guard-ship at Sheerness, Capts. Peter Fisher and Rich. Arthur. Since his promotion to the rank of Commander, which took place 9 Nov. 1846, he has been on half-pay. He obtained a pension of 6l. per annum for wounds 17 May, 1843. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
WHITE. (Retired Commander, 1849. f-p., 22; h-p., 27.)
George White, a native of Havant, co. Hants, is son of the late Geo. White, Esq., Purser and Paymaster R.N. (1793), of Dunse, N.B.; and half-brother of the present Vice-Admiral Wight.
This officer entered the Navy, in Dec. 1798, as A.B., on board the Spiteful gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander John Wood, stationed off Jersey, where he continued employed as Midshipman until May, 1802. From July until Oct. of the latter year he served in the Liberty 14, Lieut.-Commander Hugh Cook, in the Mediterranean; and in March, 1803, he joined the Dreadnought 98, Capts. Wm. Domett, Edw. Brace, John Child Purvis, Robt. Carthew Reynolds, Geo. Reynolds, Edw. Rotheram, and John Conn. In that ship, which bore the flags at different periods of Admirals Cornwallis, Collingwood, and Lord Northesk, he was for a long time stationed in the Channel and off Cadiz, and was present as Master’s Mate at the battle of Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805. Removing, in May, 1806, to the Captain 74, Capts. Wm. Grenville Lobb, Geo. Cockburn, Isaac Wolley, and the late Sir Jas. Athol Wood, he was afforded an opportunity of assisting, 27 Sept. following, at the capture, by a squadron under Sir Thos. Louis, of Le Président French frigate of 44 guns. He cooperated also in the reduction of Copenhagen in Aug. and Sept. 1807; and in Feb. and April, 1809, he served on shore at the taking of Martinique and the Saintes. In Aug. of the year last-mentioned he accompanied Sir J. A. Wood as Acting-Lieutenant (he had obtained that rank in the Captain 4 Dec. 1807) into the Neptune 98. To her he was confirmed 2 Nov. ensuing. His next appointment was, with Sir J. A. Wood, 18 March, 1810, to the Pompée 74; to which ship he continued attached in the West Indies, Channel, and Mediterranean, until Nov. 1815. On 5 Nov. 1813 he was present in a partial action with the French Toulon fleet. He was afterwards, from 24 Nov. 1825 until 1831, employed in the Coast Blockade with his name on the books of the Ramillies and Talavera 74’s, both commanded by Capt. Hugh Pigot. During four years and six months of that period he was a Divisional- Lieutenant, and had the superintendence of the left division of the Kentish Coast Blockade. He accepted the rank he now holds 2 March, 1849. Agents – Case and Loudonsack.
WHITE. (Captain, 1846. f-p., 22; h-p., 9.)
George Henry Parlby White, born 11 Oct. 1802, at Droxford, co. Hants, is eldest son of the late Rear-Admiral Thos. White.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 20 Nov. 1816; and embarked, in Dec. 1818, as Midshipman, on board the Erne 20, Capt. Timothy Scriven, stationed on the coast of Ireland. After serving for some months in the Channel in the Heron 18, Capt. Job Hanmer, he joined, in Aug. 1819, the Superb 78, commanded by his father, and sailed for South America; where he continued employed in the Créole 42, commanded at first by Capt. White and next by Capts. Thos. Bourchier and Hon. Fred. Spencer, as Midshipman and Mate in the Spartiate 76, Capt. Gordon Thos. Falcon, and as Acting-Lieutenant (order dated 2 May, 1825) in the Fly 18, Capt. Wm. Fanshawe Martin, until officially promoted 24 July, 1825. His succeeding appointments were – 20 July, 1827, to the Primrose 18, Capt. Thos. Saville Griffinhoofe, fitting for the coast of Africa – 5 Nov. following, to the Melville 74, Capts. Henry Hill, Alex. Wilmot Schomberg, and Christopher John Williams Nesham, in which ship he was for three years and ten months stationed chiefly off the coast of Portugal and in the Mediterranean – 18 Nov. 1833, as Senior, to the Jaseur 16, Capt. John Hackett, on the south coast of Spain – and (after nearly eight months of half-pay) 19 Feb. 1838 and 1 Feb. 1839, in a similar capacity, to the Malabar and Implacable 74’s, both commanded by Capt. Edw. Harvey, on the North American and West India stations. In the Implacable he was present in 1840 in the operations on the coast of Syria and at the blockade of Alexandria. He attained the rank of Commander 23 Nov. 1841; and from 12 July, 1845, until Posted 9 Nov. 1846, was employed with the Channel squadron aa Second-Captain in the Canopus 84, Capt. Fairfax Moresby. He has not been since afloat. Agents Messrs. Stilwell.
WHITE. (Lieut., 1821. f-p., 35; h-p., 5.)
George Robert White entered the Navy, 22 May, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Banterer 22, Capt. Alex. Shippard, in which vessel he cruized in the Baltic and then sailed for the coast of North America, where he was wrecked as Midshipman in the river St. Lawrence 29 Oct. 1808, suffering on the occasion many hardships. In April, 1809, he joined the Puissant 74, Capts. John Irwin and Robt. Hall, at Spithead; and from the following Nov. until July, 1816, he was employed, on the Home, Baltic, and Brazilian stations, in the Namur 74, Capt. A. Shippard, Nemesis 28, Capt. Wm Ferris, Namur again, Capt. Shippard, Fly brig. Capt. Manley Hall Dixon, Vigo and Montagu 74’s, flagships of Rear-Admiral Manley Dixon, Benjamin (a corvette borrowed from the Brazilian Government), Capt. Joseph Patey, and a second time in the Montagu. He served afterwards, ftom Aug. 1816 until Dec. 1818, as Admiralty-Midshipman, in the Pelican sloop, Capt. Edw. Curzon, in South America, the North Sea, and Mediterranean; and from the latter date until confirmed in his present rank 19
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1805, p. 1484.
