This officer entered the Navy (from the Royal Naval College) 24 Dec. 1830; passed his examination in 1834; obtained his first commission 26 March, 1839; and was subsequently appointed – 18 June, 1839, – as Additional-Lieutenant, to the Princess Charlotte 104, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford, in the Mediterranean – 9 Aug. following, to the Castor 36, Capt. Edw. Collier, under whom he assisted, in 1840, in the attacks upon Caiffa,[1] Jaffa, and Tsour, and at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre – 18 Aug. 1841, again as Additional, to the Illustrious 72, fitting for the flag of Sir Chas. Adam – 18 Oct. 1841, to the Winchester 50, Capt. Thos. Wren Carter, and 24 Feb. 1842, to the command of the Spitfire steamer, both on the North America and West India station – 25 April, 1843, as Senior, to the Cormorant steam-vessel, Capt. Geo. Thos. Gordon, in the Pacific – 19 Oct. 1843, in a similar capacity, to the Ardent steam-sloop, on the coast of Africa – and 6 May, 1845, to the Rodney 92, Capt. Edw. Collier, attached to the Channel squadron. A few weeks after he had left the Rodney he was promoted to the rank of Commander 9 Nov. 1846.
He married, 16 Feb. 1847, Anne, second daughter of the late John Hives, Esq., of Gledhow Grove, co. York. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
WISE. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 28; h-p., 13.)
Chapman Wise entered the Navy, 10 Nov. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Fortunée 36, Capt. Henry Vansittart, under whom he was for four years employed in the Channel and on the coast of Ireland. From Nov. 1810 until Dec. 1811 he served in the Mediterranean, in the Blake 74 and Royal Sovereign 100, Capts. Edw. Codrington and John Harvey; he was then a second time placed under the command of Capt, Vansittart, in the Fortunée; and after he had been further employed with the same officer as Master’s Mate in the Clarence 74, and with Capts. Edw. Sneyd Clay, Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer, and Nathaniel Mitchell, in the Raisonnable 64, Pactolus 38, and Florida 20, on the Home, North American, and West India stations, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 29 March, 1815. His appointments have since been . – 29 Jan. 1824, for upwards of three years, to the Coast Blockade, as a Supernumerary of the Ramillies 74, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot – 7 June, 1831, to the Coast Guard – 17 Aug. 1838, to the post, which he retained until the commencement of 1844, of Admiralty Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel – 1 June in the latter year, again to the Coast Guard – and 29 Sept. 1845, to the command (he still holds it) of the Fox Revenue-cruizer. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
WISE. (Captain, 1847.)
Charles Wise entered the Navy 12 Nov. 1822; passed his examination in 1829; obtained his first commission 24 Dec. 1833; served, from 29 Aug. 1835 until paid off at the commencement of 1840, part of the time as Senior Lieutenant, in the Rodney 92, Capt. Hyde Parker, on the Mediterranean station; and on 5 April, 1841, was appointed, in the capacity last mentioned, to the Cornwallis 72, fitting for the flag of Sir Wm. Parker, whom he accompanied to the coast of China. He commanded a small division of boats subsequently at the destruction of 30 fire-boats at Chusan,[2] and was present at the capture of Woosung,[3] Shanghae, and Chin-Kiang-Foo. For his conduct he was promoted to the rank of Commander 23 Dec. 1842,[4] and was reappointed, 27 of the same mouth, to the Cornwallis. In Nov. 1844 he returned to England; he was again, 1 March, 1845, nominated Second Captain to Sir Wm. Parker in the Hibernia 104, in the Mediterranean; and on the death at Malta of Capt. Nicholas Lockyer of the Albion 90, he was promoted, 28 Feb. 1847, into the vacancy thereby occasioned. The Hibernia, at the period of the occurrence, was lying off Lisbon. Since 3 Aug. 1848 Capt. Wise has been afresh serving in her as Flag-Captain to Sir W. Parker. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
WISE. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 28;[5] h-p., 14.)
John Wise entered the Navy, 11 Jan. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the San Domingo, Lieut.-Commander Thompson, lying at Portsmouth. From the following Aug. until Jan. 1811 he was employed in the Mediterranean, Channel, and Baltic, the greater part of the time as Midshipman, in the Saturn 74, Capts. Lord Amelius Beauclerk and Wm. Cumberland; the former of whom he then rejoined on board the Royal Oak 74, commanded next by Capts. Pulteney Malcolm and Thos. Geo. Shortland. After serving off Flushing, the Texel, Cherbourg, and the Western Islands, he was received as Secretary’s Clerk, in June, 1813, on board the Queen Charlotte 100, flag-ship of Lord Keith in the Channel. In the ensuing Dec. he removed as Master’s Mate to the Medina 20, Capt. Henry Bourchier, at Newfoundland; and on 10 Feb. 1815, at which period he had been for a few weeks stationed at Cork in the Boyne 98, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His appointments have since been – 13 Jan. 1820, to the Water Guard – 10 Feb. 1824, for about two years, to the Coast Blockade, as a Supernumerary of the Ramillies 74, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch – 5 April, 1831, to the Coast Guard – and 11 Jan. 1834 and 7 Sept. 1841, to the Directorship of Police at Sheerness and Chatham Dockyards, at the latter of which places he is now serving.
Lieut. Wise is married and has issue. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
WISEMAN, Bart. (Captain, 1820. f-p., 19; h-p., 29.)
Sir William Saltonstall Wiseman was born 5 March, 1784; and died, 1 July, 1845, at Hillingdon End, Uxbridge. He was eldest son of Edm. Wiseman, Esq., by Jemima, daughter of Michael Ame, Esq.; and grandson of Sir Thos. Wiseman, whom he succeeded as seventh Baronet in 1810. This officer entered the Navy, 30 July, 1797, as Fst.-cl. Vol, on board the Warrior 74, Capts. Henry Savage and Chas. Tyler, employed in the North Sea and Mediterranean. In Sept. 1799 (he had attained the rating of Midshipman in March, 1798) he removed to the Wasp, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Heppel, lying at Chatham; and in the following Jan. he was received on board the Active 38, Capts. Chas. Sydney Davers and Rich. Hussey Moubray, again in the Mediterranean; where he was transferred, in June, 1804, to the Kent 74, Capts. Pulteney Malcolm and John Chambers White. On 8 April, 1805, at which period he had been for four months serving in the Channel as Master’s Mate in the Cygnet sloop, Capt. Daniel M‘Leod, he was appointed Sub-Lieutenant of the Protector gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Sir Geo. Mouat Keith; under whom we find him assisting at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope. On 27
- ↑ At the taking of Caiffa, he aided in planting the Ottoman flag on the ramparts of the town.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, p. 2392.
- ↑ Immediately after the taking of Woosung he accompanied a detached force up the river, and at the head of a few seamen and marines landed on the banks and destroyed two 5-gun batteries in the face of a considerable body of troops. – Vide Gaz. 1842, p. 3401.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, p. 3821.
- ↑ Exclusive of Water-Guard time.
the Burges Canal; commanded a small squadron, too, on the coast of Holland, and was present at the capture of the Helder and the surrender of the Dutch squadron, under Rear-Admiral Storey. In the Stag he was again (after having taken part in Sir John Borlase Warren’s expedition to Ferrol) wrecked in Vigo Bay, 6 Sept. 1801; and in the Ardent he drove the French frigate Bayonnaise, of 32 guns and 200 men, on shore on the coast of Spain, 28 Nov. 1803, and was for some time stationed off Boulogne. From 1808 until the corps was disbanded, in 1810, he commanded the Dover district of Sea Fencibles. He became a Rear-Admiral 12 Aug. 1819, and a Vice-Admiral 22 July, 1830. He died at Dover 9 May, 1832.
