into the Repulse 74, Capt. Rich. Hussey Moubray. He was paid off, on his arrival home with convoy, in June, 1814; and was lastly employed in command, from 22 Oct. 1828 until Oct. 1831, of the Skylark Revenue-vessel, on the coast of Ireland.
HUDSON. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Philip Hudson passed his examination 28 Sept. 1840; and served, as Mate, in the Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir Graham Moore, Champion 18, Capt. Rich. Byron, Dolphin and Spy brigantines, Lieut.-Commanders Philip Bisson and Sam. Otway Wooldridge, and St. Vincent 120, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Ogle – on the Plymouth, South American, African, and Portsmouth stations. He obtained his commission 31 Jan, 1846; and since 2 of the following month has been employed in the Mediterranean on board the Harlequin 12, Capts. Douglas Curry and John Moore.
HUGGINS. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 18; h-p., 33.)
James Edward Huggins was born in Aug. 1782, at Nevis.
This officer (who had previously been in the East India Company’s service) entered the Navy, in Nov. 1796, as A.B., on board the Vindictive frigate, Capts. Dan. Oliver Guion, Gardner, and Aiskew Paffard Hollis, stationed at the Cape of Good Hope; and on his return to England in 1798, appears to have been employed for upwards of seven months off Woolwich as Midshipman in command of the Experiment fire-vessel. After an attachment of some time to the Zealand 74, flag-ship at the Nore of Vice-Admirals Skeffington Lutwidge and Sir Andw. Mitchell, he joined the Amazon 38, Capt. Edw. Riou, under whom he was severely wounded on the occasion of that ship running foul of Le Bourgainville French 18-gun privateer, in Feb. 1800. From the following April until April, 1802, he again served with Capt. Guion, on board the Eurus 36, and Trusty 50. In the former of those ships he attended,the expeditions to Ferrol and Cadiz, and also the one to Egypt, where he was in command of a flat-boat during the battles of 8, 13, and 21 March, 1801, at the destruction of Rosetta Castle, and at the surrender of Grand Cairo and Alexandria. On the night of 29 Aug. 1800, he had served with the boats of a squadron, 20 in number, commanded by Lieut. Henry Burke, at the cutting-out, close to the batteries in Vigo Bay, of La Guêpe privateer, of 18 guns and 160 men; which vessel, 25 of whose people were killed and 40 wounded, was boarded and carried in 15 minutes, with a loss to the British of 3 seamen and 1 marine killed, 3 Lieutenants, 12 seamen, and 5 marines wounded, and 1 seaman missing. From June, 1802, to Oct. 1803, we find Mr. Huggins serving at Newfoundland as Admiralty-Midshipman of the Camilla 20, Capts. Edw. Brace, Henry Hill, and Bridges Watkinson Taylor. In March, 1804, having joined, as Master’s Mate, the Inconstant 36, Capt. Edw. Stirling Dickson, he assisted at the recapture of the African island of Gorée; with the despatches relative to which event he was sent to England. He was then, after having passed his examination, ordered to the West Indies, where he frequently distinguished himself in command of the tenders of the Hercule and Veteran flag-ships – particularly when in the Gracieuse, in which vessel, while in the act of boarding a French national schooner, off St. Domingo, he received a wound so severe as to deprive him of the entire use of his arm, and to elicit the presentation of a sword from the Patriotic Society.[1] In March, 1806, in consequence of the injury he had sustained, he was sent home to Haslar Hospital; but in the summer of the following year he returned to the West Indies, and joined the Wolf 16, Capt. Wm. Sumner Hall. Between May, 1808, and the date of his official promotion, which took place 27 Sept. 1810, Mr. Huggins was further employed on the same station, chiefly as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Shark, Griffon, Elk, and Pert sloops, Capts. Edw. Henry A’Court, H. S. Jones, Jeremiah Coghlan, and W. S. Hall. In the Griffon, he also for some months discharged the duties of Acting-Commander. Obtaining an appointment, 16 Oct, 1810, to the Rover 18, Capt. Justice Finley, he served in that vessel in co-operation with the patriots on the north coast of Spain until Aug. 1812, when he was again obliged to be sent to Haslar in consequence of a serious hurt he had received while engaging the batteries at Bilboa. He next, on 3 March, 1813, joined the Majestic, a cut-down 74, Capt, John Hayes, under whom, during a cruize in the North American station, he contributed, 3 Feb, 1814, to the capture, after a running-fight of two hours and a-half, of the Terpsichore French frigate, of 44 guns. Since his advancement to his present rank, 15 June, 1814, Commander Huggins has been unable to procure employment. He was awarded a pension of 150l, for his wounds, 28 May, 1816. Agent – Fred. Dufaur.
HUGHES. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
John Constantine Hughes passed his examination 5 June, 1833; was employed for some time, as Mate, in the Badger Revenue-cruizer, Lieut.-Commander Rich. Percival; obtained an appointment in the Coast Guard 8 June, 1842; and continued in that service until advanced to the rank of Lieutenant 3 July, 1846, He has since been on half-pay.
HUGHES. (Retired Commander, 1842. f-p., 17; h-p., 33.)
Robert Hughes entered the Navy, 1 Dec. 1797, as A.B,, on board L’Aigle 38, Capt, Chas. Tyler, and on 18 July, 1798, was wrecked, near Tunis, on which occasion he suffered many severe hardships. In the ensuing Sept. he became Midshipman of the Marlborough 74, Capt, Thos. Sotheby; but that ship being also lost, off Belleisle, 4 Nov. 1800, he next, in Jan. 1801, joined the Trent 36, commanded at first by Sir Edw. Hamilton, and afterwards by Capt, Chas, Brisbane, whom he successively followed, as Master’s Mate, into the Goliath 74, and Arethusa 38; assisting, in the Goliath, at the capture, 28 June, 1803, of La Mignonne French national corvette of 16 guns and 80 men. In June, 1805, he removed to the Astrea 32, Capt. Jas. Carthew, at the Nore; and on 25 Aug. in the same year, he was appointed Acting-Lieutenant of the Combatant sloop, Capt. Alex. Robt, Kerr, in the Downs. In about a month afterwards, however, he went back to the Arethusa, still commanded by Capt. Brisbane; in which ship we find him present at the capture, 23 Aug. 1806, near the Havana, after a spirited action, in which the Arethusa had 2 men killed and 32 wounded, of the Pomona Spanish frigate, of 38 guns and 347 men, laden with specie and merchandize, and defended by a castle, mounting 11 36-pounders, and a flotilla of 10 gun-boats, all of which were destroyed. After further sharing in the memorable capture of Curaçoa, Mr. Hughes was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, by commission dated 23 Feb. 1807. With the exception of a brief command, in June and July, 1812, of the Merope 10, he next, from Aug. 1808 until May, 1813, served with the same Captain and the present Sir Edw. Codrington on board the Blake 74. He took, during that period, a warm part in the hostilities of 1809 in the Scheldt, served at the siege of Cadiz, and, among other operations on the coast of Spain, united in the defence of Tarragona. On the night of 26 Sept. 1812, some time after the latter place had fallen into the hands of the French, we find Mr. Hughes, who was then First of the Blake, assuming command of her boats, and sweeping the mole of all the vessels and boats which had there sought protection, notwithstanding an angry discharge of shot and shells from the town. In the execution of this service, which was conducted simultaneously with a land-operation under the Baron d’Eroles, he greatly acquired the approbation of his Captain, Codrington.[2] His last appointment was,
