mission dated 8 Oct. 1841;[1] and has since been on half-pay. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
HAYMES. (Captain, 1846. f-p., 14; h-p., 30.)
Philip George Haymes entered the Navy, 1 June, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Romulus, Capt. Woodley Losack, and after serving for some time with the same officer as Midshipman in the Helena sloop on the Home station, joined, in 1806, the Prince George 98, Capt. Geo. Losack, and sailed for the West Indies. Between 1807 and 1812, he was next employed, on the Guernsey, Baltic, and Mediterranean stations, in the Diomede 50 and Victory 100, flag-ships of Sir Jas. Saumarez, Phoebe 36, Capts. Hassard Stackpoole and Jas. Hillyar, and San Josef 110, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Cotton. He then rejoined Sir Jas. Saumarez on board the Victory, and on 23 July in the same year, 1812, was appointed, with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant, to the command of a gun-boat, in which we find him co-operating with the Russian flotilla in the defence of Riga, and participating in a successful expedition against the French and Prussians at Mittau, on the river Aa. Being rewarded for his services with a commission dated on 20 of the following Nov., Mr. Haymes was subsequently, after an intermediate attachment to the Russian Admiral’s flag-ship, appointed, 30 Dec. 1812, to the Royal Oak 74, bearing the successive flags, on the Home and American stations, of Lord Amelius Beauclerk and the late Sir Pulteney Malcolm. On 13 March, 1815, having acted as Naval Aide-de-Camp to Major-Generals Ross and Gibbs during the expeditions against Washington, Baltimore, and New Orleans, he was advanced to the rank of Commander. Capt. Haymes’ only appointment in the latter capacity appears to have been, 18 Dec. 1841, to the Fantome 16, in which sloop he returned home from South America, and was paid off towards the close of 1843. He attained Post-rank 9 Nov. 1846.
Capt. Haymes is married and has issue. Agents Messrs. Halford and Co.
HAYTER. (Lieut., 1818. f-p., 14; h-p., 30.)
Benjamin Hayter entered the Navy, 7 June, 1803, as Third-cl. Vol., on board the Magnificent 74, Capt. Wm. Hen. Jervis, under whom he was wrecked, on a sunken rock, near Brest, 25 March, 1804. From that period he remained a prisoner in France until the peace of 1814, when, being restored to liberty, he joined the Scipion 74, Capt. Hen. Heathcote, in which ship, and in the Slaney 20, Capt. Geo. Rose Sartorius, he served on the Mediterranean and Home stations until Aug. 1815 – witnessing, in the latter vessel, the surrender of Napoleon Buonaparte. Joining, next, the Impregnable 98, he fought in that ship under the flag of Rear-Admiral David Milne at the bombardment of Algiers. Being, however, discharged in Oct. 1816, Mr. Hayter did not again go afloat until nominated Admiralty-Midshipman, in Jan. 1818, of the Drake sloop, Capt. Hen. Shiffner. He returned to England in Feb. 1819, having been advanced to the rank of Lieutenant by commission bearing date 19 of the previous Sept., and has not been since employed.
HEA. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 31.)
Robert Hea entered the Navy, 25 April, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Boadicea 38, Capt. John Maitland, with whom, and with Capt. John Hatley, he continued to serve, in the same ship, and in the Raisonnable 64, on the Cork, Newfoundland, Channel, and Cape of Good Hope stations, principally as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, until July, 1810. He then became attached, for a short period, as a Supernumerary, to the Namur 74, flag-ship at the Nore of Vice-Admiral Thos. Wells; after which he served, until Dec. 1815, in the Crane sloop, Capt. Jas. Stuart, Seine frigate, Capt. John Hatley, and Horatio 38, and Newcastle 60, both commanded by Lord Geo. Stuart. He was employed, in the first mentioned of those vessels, on the West India station; and was present, in the Horatio, after re-visiting the Cape, at the capture of the islands of Schouwen and Tholen, in the North Sea. While in the Newcastle, of which ship he was confirmed a Lieutenant 11 March, 1815, he cruized with activity on the North American station. Since Dec. of the latter year he has been on half-pay.
Lieut. Hea has for a long time held the office of Inspector of Convicts at Norfolk Island. Agents – Collier and Snee.
HEAD. (Commander, 1819. f-p., 22; h-p., 25.)
Richard John Head was born at Helston, co. Cornwall.
This officer entered the Navy, 20 May, 1800, as a Volunteer, on board the Conquest gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Green, attached to the force in the Channel, where, on his removal to the Pelican 18, Capt. John Thicknesse, he was in the following winter cast away. He then, until the peace of Amiens, served on board the Hercule 74, Capt. Wm. Luke; on leaving which ship he successively joined the Childers and Dasher sloops, both commanded by Capt. J. Delafons; whom, in the latter vessel, he accompanied to the East Indies. Being there confirmed, 12 June, 1807, a Lieutenant (after having acted as such for a period of nine months) in the Sir Francis Drake 32, Capt. Hon. Pownoll Bastard Pellew, he had the misfortune, during a continuance of three years in that ship, to be twice severely wounded, once at the destruction of six pirate vessels in the straits of Malacca, and again when beating off an attack made by the French frigate Piedmontaise on the Sir Francis Drake and a convoy of Chinamen. Returning to England in 1810, Mr. Head was next, until Aug. 1814, employed, on the Channel, Baltic, and Mediterranean stations, in the Dreadnought 98, Capt. Sam. Hood Linzee, and Venerable, Mars, and Pembroke 74’s, Capts. Sir Home Popham, Hen. Raper, and Jas. Brisbane. While in the last-mentioned ship he participated, 5 Nov. 1813, in a partial action with the Toulon fleet, and in the course of the following April, besides commanding the boats at the capture of a large convoy under the guns of Porto Maurizio, served at the reduction of Genoa and the taking of Corsica. From Sept. 1814, until his promotion to the rank of Commander 15 May, 1819, he was employed in the Queen and Albion 74’s, chiefly as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Chas. Vinicombe Penrose, by whom he was sent on a secret service to Rome, whence he brought away and delivered to the British Government all the valuable papers of the Cardinal de York, the last of the Stuart family. Commander Head’s only other appointment was to the Coast Guard, in which service he continued from 1824 to 1827. On his retirement he was entertained at a dinner given to him by the officers of his district, who at the same time presented him with a snuff-box, of heart of oak, manufactured from a beam of St. Mawe’s Castle, of 200 years standing, suitably ornamented, with an inscription commemorative of their feelings of respect and attachment to him.
He married, 16 Oct. 1832, Sarah Vigurs, daughter of the Rev. F. L. Bluett, Vicar of Mullion, by whom he has issue three sons.
HEALES. (Lieut., 1827. f-p., 16; h-p., 22)
Thomas Heales was born 23 April, 1794, and died 22 Nov. 1846 at Dalston, co. Middlesex.
This officer entered the Navy, 12 June, 1809, as a Volunteer, on board the Rota 38, Capt. Philip Somerville. In the boats of that frigate, after attending the expedition to the Walcheren, he served at the siege of Cadiz, and assisted, 22 May, 1812, at the capture, vrtth great loss to the British, of L’Espardon privateer, of 3 guns and 45 men. He subsequently, during a cruize off the Western Islands, participated, as Midshipman, in an unsuccessful attempt made on 26 Sept. 1814 to cut out from the road of Fayal the American privateer General Armstrong, a vessel whose resistance killed 34, and
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841. p. 2589.
