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HALSTED—HAM—HAMBLY—HAMBY.
Capt. Halsted has left a son, the present Commander Geo. Anthony Halsted, R.N.
HALSTED. (Commander, 1827. f-p., 19; h-p., 12.)
George Anthony Halsted is son of the late Capt. Geo. Halsted, R.N.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 7 March, 1816, and embarked, 18 Feb. 1819, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Révolutionnaire 46, Capt. Hon. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew. After serving for five years on the Mediterranean station in that frigate, and in the Rose sloop, Capt. Thos. Ball Clowes, and Rochfort 80, flag-ship of Sir Graham Moore, he sailed for the West Indies in the Rattlesnake 28, Capt. Hugh Patton, and was there promoted to a Lieutenancy, 25 Feb. 1824, in the Icarus 10, Capt. John Geo. Graham. On 24 Dec. 1825, having been further employed in the Serapis schooner, and Hussar and Dartmouth frigates, Capts. Jackson, Geo. Harris, and Henry Dundas, he became Flag-Lieutenant, in the Isis 50, to his uncle, Sir L. W. Halsted, then Commander-in-Chief on the same station. He was in consequence advanced to his present rank by commission dated 13 June, 1827. With the exception of some months in 1837-8, and again in 1843-4, he has been employed in the Coast Guard ever since 18 March, 1834. Agent – J. Hinxman.
HALSTED. (Lieut., 1841. f-p., 11; h-p., 1.)
Lawrence George Halsted died suddenly, 7 Nov. 1846, while serving, as below, on board the Spiteful,.
This officer entered the Navy 1 Sept. 1834; passed his examination in 1840; and for his performances in China, where he was mentioned in the despatches as having served on shore as Mate of the Wellesley 72, Capt. Thos. Maitland, at the capture of Amoy and Chinghae,[1] was promoted, towards the close of 1842, to the rank of Lieutenant, by commission dated back to 8 Oct. 1841. He afterwards, from 23 Sept. 1843, until the period of his death, served in the Spiteful steam-sloop, Capt. Wm. Maitland, on the East India station; where, during an expedition conducted in July, 1846, by Sir Thos. John Cochrane against the Sultan of Borneo, he commanded the pinnace, and assisted at the destruction, on 8 of that month, of the enemy’s forts and batteries in the river Brune.[2] Agent – J. Hinxman.
HAM. (Lieutenant, 1815. h-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
William Ham entered the Navy, 8 Dec. 1806, as A.B., on board the Cuba 36, Capt. John Parish, on the Jamaica station; and in Sept. following became Midshipman of the Diomede, bearing the flag off Guernsey of Sir Jas. Saumarez; with whom, from March, 1808, until Dec. 1812, he further served in the Baltic as Master’s Mate of the Victory 104. He then, in a similar capacity, joined the Orion 74, Capt. Sir Arch. Collingwood Dickson, from which ship, after a continued servitude of more than 12 months on the same station, he removed to the Cressy 74, Capt. Chas. Dashwood. He subsequently cruized off the Western Islands and in the Mediterranean on board the Bombay 74, Capt. Henry Bazely; but since the receipt of his commission, which bears date 20 March, 1815, has been unemployed.
HAMBLY. (Captain, 1841. f-p., 21; h-p., 29.)
Peter Sampson Hambly entered the Navy, 1 Dec. 1797, as Midshipman, on board the Ville de Paris 110, Capt. Hon. Geo. Grey, bearing the flag off Lisbon and in the Mediterranean of Earl St. Vincent. Removing, subsequently, to the Emerald 36, Capt. Thos. Moutray Waller, he assisted in that ship, in company with the Leviathan 74, and was slightly wounded, at the capture, 7 April, 1800, of the two Spanish frigates Carmen and Florentina, each laden with 500 quintals of quicksilver, for the use of the mines at Lima. Independently of that service, he was frequently employed in the Emerald’s boats, off the port of Cadiz, was instrumental to the capture of several privateers, and was a second time wounded. While next attached, as Master’s Mate, between the summers of 1800 and 1802, to the Florentina 36, Capt. John Broughton, he served at the landing of the troops in Egypt, and received a sabre-cut in the right wrist, 21 March, 1801, in the battle in which Sir Ralph Abercromby was killed. In April, 1803, after he had been for a short period borne on the books of the Tonnant 80, Capt. Sir Edw. Pellew, he joined the Prince 98, Capt. Rich. Grindall, under whom he fought at Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805. At the close of the conflict, Mr. Hambly was sent on board the Spanish 130-gun ship Santissima Trinidad, and he remained until within a short time of her going down, the water, when he left, having reached above her lower deck. Being promoted, in honour of the victory, by commission dated 24 Dec. in the same year, he was next appointed – 27 March, 1806, to the Morgiana sloop, Capts. Robt. Raynsford and Wm. Landless, on the Mediterranean station – 18 Dec. 1806, to the Queen 98, Capts. Eras. Pender, Wm. Shields, Chas. Inglis, and Thos. Geo. Shortland, employed off Cadiz, the Dardanells, &c. – 11 July, 1808, to the Defence 74, Capt. Chas. Ekins, by whom, after assisting at the blockade of Flushing and Kronstat, he was intrusted with the erection and command of a battery on an island in the Gulf of Finland, for the purpose of obstructing the movements of the Russians – and, in Oct. 1810, to the command of part of the flotilla employed at the defence of Cadiz, where, and at Tarifa, he continued in almost daily collision with the enemy, until the autumn of 1813, when be invalided.[3] In June, 1814, he joined the flotilla on the river St. Lawrence, and when the 100-gun ship of that name was ready for launching he was appointed her First-Lieutenant. By the time she was nearly equipped for sea, he was sent to take the command on Lake Champlain, where he remained until the month of Dec. He then became Senior of the Psyche 32, Capt. Peter Fisher, from which ship, stationed on Lalce Ontario, he removed to the acting-command, 11 July, 1815, of the Star sloop. From 12 of the following Oct. until 30 Nov. 1816, we next find him superintending the naval establishment on Lake Huron. He obtained a second promotal commission 12 Aug. 1819; and from 3 Aug. 1838, until his Post-promotion, 23 Nov. 1841, was employed in command of the Orestes 18, on the South American station. He has since been on half-pay.
Capt. Hambly, we believe, has been twice married – the second time, 17 Nov. 1842, to Caroline, second daughter of the late Lieut.-Colonel Maule. He has four sons. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
HAMBLY. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Thomas Tocker Hambly passed his examination 2 Sept. 1844; became Mate, 17 April, 1345, of the Melampus 42, Capt. John Norman Campbell, stationed on the south-east coast of America; and attained the rank of Lieutenant 9 Nov. 1846.
HAMBY. (Lieutenant, 1814. f-p., 13; h-p., 30.)
Thomas Hamby entered the Navy, 10 Oct. 1804, as A.B., on board the Ruby 64, in which ship, under Capts. Chas. Rowley, John Acworth Ommanney. Temple Hardy, John Draper, and the flag of Rear-Admiral Manley Dixon, he continued to serve, on the Cadiz, North Sea, Lisbon, and Baltic stations, nearly the whole time as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, until June, 1811; during which period, in 1807-8, he shared with Capt. Draper in the bombardment of Copenhagen and the blockade of the Russian squadron in the Tagus. The remaining years of the war were passed by Mr. Hamby on
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, pp. 82, 396.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1846, p. 3442.
- ↑ On one occasion a shot passed tlirough the side of Mr. Hambly’s gun-boat, and it was with the greatest difficulty she could be kept afloat; and on another she had a marine killed during an attack on the batteries at St. Mary’s, the guns in one of which were spiked.
