Walpole Trefusis, we find him sharing in the boats of that sloop in an expedition against the pirates in the West Indies, and compelled, during a period of eight days, to subsist on the provisions of two. He afterwards served for about four years in South America, latterly as Mate, on board the Mersey 26, Capt. John Macpherson Ferguson, Jaseur 18, Capt. Thos. Martin, and Cambridge 80, Capt. Thos. Jas. Maling; and he next, in 1827-8, joined the Prince Regent 120, flag-ship at the Nore of Sir Robt. Moorsom, Martial 14, commanded on the coast of Scotland by Lieut. Robt. M‘Kirdy, and Blonde 46, Capt. Edm. Lyons; under whom, towards the close of 1828, he was employed on shore in constructing batteries, and otherwise co-operating with the French army during the siege of Morea Castle.[1] Attaining the rank of Lieutenant 12 Nov. 1829, Mr. Hay, until June, 1831, served in that capacity on board the Meteor bomb, Capt. David Hope, Britannia 120, bearing the flag of Sir Pulteney Malcolm, and Samarang 28, Capt. Wm. Fanshawe Martin. His next appointment was, 27 March, 1837, to the Talavera 74, Capt. Wm. Bowen Mends, stationed, as were the three ships last-mentioned, in the Mediterranean; on his return whence he became, 4 Jan. 1840, First-Lieutenant of the Pylades 18, Capt. Talavera Vernon Anson. Proceeding in that vessel to China, he there commanded her boats, 29 July, 1840, in a severe action with three piratical junks, one of which he succeeded in capturing after a loss of 2 men killed and 8 wounded. With the exception of the attack on the forts at the Boca Tigris, Mr. Hay afterwards shared, and was particularly recommended for the ability he displayed in all the operations which led to the first and second capture of the city of Canton;[2] and on one occasion he rendered himself particularly conspicuous by his exertions at night in cutting through a raft which had been moored across the river, and had efiectually obstructed the passage of the shipping. He was advanced to his present rank by commission dated 6 May, 1841; and since 15 May, 1844 (some months previously to which period he had been admitted a student at the Royal Naval College), has been in command of the Prometheus steam-sloop, on the coast of Africa. Agents— Messrs. Halford and Co.
HAY. (Lieutenant, 1814. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
John Hay (a) is second son of the late John Hay, Esq., of Morton, by Jane, daughter of Provost Wyllie, of Glasgow.
This officer entered the Navy, 9 Dec. 1806, as L.M., on board the Texel 64, Capt. Donald Campbell, bearing the flag at Leith of Rear-Admiral Jas. Vashon. On his removal, as Midshipman, in 1807, to the Dictator 64, also commanded by Capt. Campbell, he attended the expedition of that year to Copenhagen; after which we find him, while stationed in the Great Belt, sharing, 26 June, 1808, in an action with several Danish gun-boats, whose fire killed 1 and wounded 2 of the Dictator’s people. In Aug. 1809, having followed the same Captain into the Audacious 74, Mr. Hay assisted, as Master’s Mate, at the bombardment of Flushing. On the evacuation of the Walcheren he returned to England in one of the prizes, but he subsequently rejoined the Audacious, and, proceeding off the Tagus, was sent up that river with a flotilla, commanded by the present Capt. Maurice Fred. Fitzhardinge Berkeley, for the purpose of co-operating with the troops occupying the lines of Torres Vedras. Between Nov. 1811 and the date of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 1 July, 1814, he further served, on the North Sea and Mediterranean stations, in the Warrior and Rivoli 74’s, Capts. Hon. Geo. Byng and Graham Eden Hamond. With the exception of an attachment, from 8 Oct. 1823 until June, 1824, to the Prince Regent 120, flagship of Sir Benj. Hallowell at the Nore, he has not been since afloat.
Lieut. Hay married, 1 June, 1824, his cousin, Marion, eldest daughter of the late David Carrick Buchanan, Esq., of Drumpilear, Lancashire, by whom he has issue.
HAY. (Lieutenant, 1832. f-p., 26; h-p., 9.)
John Hay (b), born 22 March, 1802, is brother of Lieut. Wm. Hay, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 20 April, 1812, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Union 98, Capt. Sam. Hood Linzee and Robt. Rolles, in which ship he served at the blockade of Toulon and the reduction of Genoa. In Aug. 1815, after having been employed for a period of 12 months on the coasts of Ireland and France in the Scylla 18, Capt. Allen, and Phoebe 36, Capt. Jas. Hillyar, he was nominated Midshipman of the Podargus 14, Capt. Jas. Wallis, under whom he further served, at the Cape of Good Hope, latterly in the Racoon 26, until Dec. 1818. In July, 1820, we next find him joining the Pigmy schooner, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Hills, in which vessel he cruized for three years with much success against the smugglers of the Channel, the greater part of the time as a passed Midshipman. He then, in Aug. 1820, became attached to the Superb 74, Capt. Adam Mackenzie, in whose tender, the Lyra 10, he was for many months employed; and he subsequently, from March, 1825, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 4 April, 1832, officiated as Chief Mate of the Rose, Dolphin, and Harpy Revenue-cutters, Lieut.-Commanders Thos. Strong, Jas. Giffard, John Roche, and Sam. Grandy. Mr. Hay’s commission was presented to him at the especial recommendation of the Board of Customs, for the daring conduct he had evinced in the previous October, in taking a hawser on board H.M. steamer Echo, and thereby enabling that vessel to be hove off from a perilous position under the Hoe at Plymouth, where she had been driven on shore in the night during a violent gale. His last appointments were – 10 Oct. 1832, to the Coast Guard, in which service he continued until 1838 – and, 5 Nov. 1840, to the Howe 120, Capts. Sir Watkin Owen Pell and Robt. Smart, flag-ship for some time of Sir Fras. Mason, on the Mediterranean station. He has been on half-pay since March, 1843.
Lieut. Hay married, 26 Aug. 1824, Miss Mary James Lawrence, and by that lady has issue three children.
HAY. (Captain, 1842.)
John Baker Porter Hay entered the Navy, 28 Dec. 1811; and, obtaining his first commission 24 April, 1824, was afterwards appomted Lieutenant – 12 March, 1827, of the Romney 50, armée en flûte, Capt. Nicholas Lockyer, which ship was paid off 12 Oct. following – in 1828, of the Wasp 18, Capts. Rich. Dickinson, Hon. Wm. Wellesley, Thos. Edwd. Hoste, Orlando Geo. Sutton Gunning, and Brunswick Popham, on the Mediterranean station, whence he invalided 15 June, 1831 – 4 May, 1836, of the Cornwallis 74, Capts. Robt. Worgan Geo. Festing, Sir Joshua Ricketts Rowley, and Sir Rich. Grant, stationed at first off Lisbon, but afterwards employed as flag-ship of Hon. Sir Chas. Paget, Commander-in-Chief in North America and the West Indies. On the death of the latter officer, Mr. Hay, who for upwards of three years had officiated as First of the Cornwallis, was advanced to the command, by commission dated 30 Jan. 1839, of the Snake 16, which sloop he brought home and paid off towards the close of the same year. His last appointment was, 26 Nov. 1841, to the Second-Captaincy of the Queen 110, fitting for the flag of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen; in honour of Her Majesty’s visit to which ship, when lying at Spithead, and on the eve of her departure for the Mediterranean, he was advanced to his present rank 7 March 1842. Agents—Case and Loudonsack.
HAY. (Commander, 1846.)
John Charles Dalrymple Hay served as Midshipman of the Benbow 72, Capt. Houston Stewart during the operations of 1840 on the coast of Syria, where, previously to assisting at the bombardment
