wounded 86 of her assailants, consisting originally of about 180 seamen and marines. In the course of 1815 Mr. Heales joined the Albion and Queen 74’s, Capts. P. Somerville and Jas. Walker; from the latter of which ships he volunteered, in July, 1816, into the Infernal bomb, Capt. Hon. Geo. Percival, for the purpose of attending the expedition against Algiers, where he fought as Master’s Mate, having at the time the charge of a Lieutenant’s watch. For his conduct on the occasion Mr. Heales was to have been promoted, but the commission, we understand, which had been actually intended for him being by some fatality given to another person, a Mr. Geo. Hales, he did not succeed in effecting his advancement until after a lapse of nearly 11 years; during which period he appears to have been employed, on the North and South American, St. Helena, Irish, East India, and Home stations, as Admiralty-Midshipman, in succession, of the Pactolus 38, Capt. Hugh Dobbie, Blossom 18, Capts. Fred. Hickey and Fred. Edw. Vernon, Brazen 18, Capt. Wm. Shepheard, Alligator 28, Capt. Thos. Alexander, Prince Regent 120, flagship of Sir Robt. Moorsom, and Ramillies Coast-Blockade-ship, Capt. Hugh Pigot. He was then at length created a Lieutenant by commission bearing date 28 April, 1827; and in that capacity he afterwards, from 10 Jan. 1838 until Feb. 1839, served at Sheerness on board the Howe 120, and Ocean 80, Capts. Chas. Hen. Paget and Sir John Hill.
Lieut. Heales married Maria, daughter of Mr. Butler Wm. Mountain, coach proprietor, of the Saracen’s Head, Snow Hill, London, and of Whetstone House, Whetstone, near Barnet, co. Middlesex, by whom he has left issue.
HEALY. (Retired Commander, 1839. f-p., 14; h-p., 35.)
John Healy died 27 April, 1846, at Bordeaux, aged 70.
This officer entered the Navy, 8 July, 1797, as A.B., on board the Monmouth 64, Capts. Lord Northesk, Jas. Walker, Robt. Deans, and Geo. Hart, and on 11 of the following Oct. fought as Midshipman in the action off Camperdown. After attending the expedition of 1799 to the Holder, he again, from Aug. 1800 until April, 1802, served with Capts. Walker and Lord Northesk, in the Prince 98. Proceeding then to the Cape of Good Hope in the Imogene 18, Capt. Hen. Vaughan, Mr. Healy served on that and the Indian stations for a period of five years on board the Lancaster 64, Centurion 50, and Trident 64, bearing the flags of Sir Roger Curtis and Vice-Admiral Rainier, Grampus 50, Capt. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild (of which ship he was created a Lieutenant 26 Feb. 1805), and Sceptre 74, Capt. Joseph Bingham. He was lastly, from Aug. 1808 until he invalided in Oct. 1812, employed, at home and in the West Indies, chiefly as First-Lieutenant, in the Neptune 98, Capt. Sir Thos. Williams, Latona frigate, Capts. Jas. Athol Wood and Hugh Pigot, York 74, Capt. Robt. Barton, Vesuvius bomb, Capt. Saunders, Aboukir 74, Capt. Geo. Parker, and Vestal 28, armée en flûte Capt. Sam. Bartlett Deeckar. He accepted the rank of Retired Commander 12 Sept. 1839. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
HEARD. (Lieutenant, 1840.)
Thomas Heard entered the Navy 9 April, 1826; passed his examination in 1832; and on 4 Nov. 1840 was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant as a reward for the services he had rendered on the coast of Syria and at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre. His appointments have since been – 15 Dec. 1840, to the Powerful 84, Capts. Sir Chas. Napier, Geo. Mansel, and Michael Seymour, in the Mediterranean – 25 May, 1842, as First, to the Albatross 16, Capt. Reginald Yorke, fitting at Portsmouth – 29 Nov. 1842, to the Samarang 26, Capt. Sir Edw. Belcher, employed as a surveying-vessel in the East Indies – next, as a Supernumerary, to the Agincourt 72, flag-ship of Sir Thos. John Cochrane, Commander-in-Chief on the latter station, where it appears he had charge of a gun-boat and was wounded at the capture and destruction, 19 Aug. 1845, of Maloodoo, a strong fortification in the possession of Scheriff Osman, a rebel Borneo chieftain[1] – and, 27 Nov. 1845, as Senior, to the Wolf 18, Capt. Jas. Alex. Gordon, in which sloop he still serves in the East Indies. Agents – Messrs. Chard,
HEARLE. (Retired Commander, 1840. f-p., 26; h-p., 30.)
Robert Hearle entered the Navy, in 1791, as A.B., on board the Fly sloop, Capt. Jas. Drew, on the Newfoundland station; served, next, in the Hannibal 74, commanded at Plymouth by Capt. John Colpoys; and in July, 1792, became Midshipman of the Porcupine 24, Capts. Edw. Buller and Robt. Barlow, employed off the coast of Ireland and in the Channel. From July, 1793, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 9 May, 1797, he further served with Capt. Barlow on the Home station, the last two years as Master’s Mate, in the Pegasus 28, Aquilon 32, and Phoebe 36. He then joined the Pomona armed brig, Capt. Joseph Eyles, and, in Feb. 1798, the Nemesis 28, Capts. Robt. Dudley Oliver, Thos. Baker, Edw. W. C. R. Owen, and Philip Somerville; under the second named of whom he shared, 25 July, 1800, in a smart conflict of 25 minutes, which terminated in the capture of the Danish frigate 'Freija'. From Aug. 1802, the date of his quitting the Nemesis, until 1817, Mr. Hearle commanded a cutter under the Board of Customs. He was placed on the Junior List of Retired Commanders 26 Nov. 1830, and on the Senior 14 Jan. 1840.
Commander Hearle was left a widower 21 June, 1837. One of his daughters is married to the present Lieut. B. Hooper, R.N.
HEASLOP. (Commander, 1817. f-p., 1 1; h-p., 31.)
John Colpoys Heaslop entered the Navy, in April, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Dragon 74, Capt. Edw. Griffith, one of Sir Robt. Calder’s fleet in the ensuing action of 22 July. In 1807 he successively became Midshipman of the Topaze 38, Capt. Anselm John Griffiths, and Sultan 74, commanded by his former Captain, Griffith, under whom, on 26 Oct. 1809, he assisted in causing the self-destruction, between Frontignan and Cette, of the French ships of the line Robuste and Lion. While afterwards serving with Capt. Chas. Bullen in the Volontaire and Cambrian frigates, Mr. Heaslop was much employed in co-operation with the patriots on the coast of Catalonia, particularly at the capture of Palamos and the siege of Tarragona. On 6 Nov. 1813, having been further attached for short periods to the Bulwark, Queen, and Bellona 74’s, Capts. Thos. Brown, Lord Colville, and Geo. M‘Kinley (in the latter of which ships he had made a voyage to St. Helena), he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant; a capacity in which he subsequently joined – 4 May, 1814, the Diadem 64, Capt. John Martin Hanchett, on the American station, where, previously to invaliding in the following Sept., he accompanied the boats of a squadron up St. Mary’s river, and was present in the attacks on Washington and New Orleans – 28 Oct. 1815, the Akbar 50, bearing the flag at Halifax of his patron,. Rear-Admiral Griffith – 21 June, 1816, the Niger 38, Capt. Sam. Jackson – and, in Nov. of the same year, the Forth frigate, as Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Griffith. He attained his present rank 24 June, 1817; but has not been since afloat. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
HEASTEY. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 14; h-p., 32.)
George Heastey was born 19 June, 1788, at Devonport.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 July, 1801 as A.B., on board the Ville de Paris 110, bearing the flag in the Channel of Hon. Wm. Cornwallis; proceeded to the Mediterranean in 1802 as Midship-
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1846, p. 6536.
