Capts. Wells, Wm. Brown, John Peyton, Jas. Stevenson, and Lord Henry Paulet, until confirmed in the rank of Lieutenant, after having acted for 12 months in that capacity, 26 Nov. 1799. He was in consequence present in Hotham’s second partial action 13 July, 1795; also at the blockade of the Texel; and as Master’s Mate at the battle of the Nile 1 Aug. 1798. His last appointments were – 30 Nov. 1799, to the Pylades 18, Capt. Jas. Boorder, employed in the North Sea – 10 Jan. 1801, to the Superb 74, Capts. John Sutton and Rich. Goodwin Keats, under the latter of whom he fought in Sir Jas. Saumarez’ action in the Gut of Gibraltar 12 July, 1801, accompanied Lord Nelson to the West Indies in pursuit of the combined fleet in 1805, and was so severely wounded in the battle off St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806, as to be reduced, in the following June, to the necessity of invaliding[1] – and, 28 Sept. 1812, to the Vulture sloop, Capt. Henry Baugh, in which vessel he cruized in the Channel until June, 1813, when the effects of his wound again compelled him to seek half-pay. He became a Retired Commander on the Junior List 26 Nov. 1830; and on the Senior 16 May, 1844.
In consideration of his sufferings. Commander Patriarche, besides receiving a grant from the Patriotic Society, was allotted, 9 Aug. 1806, a pension of 91l. 5s. He is married. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
PATTEN. (Commander, 1837. f-p., 25; h-p., 8.)
Frederick Patten entered the Navy, 31 Jan. 1814, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Royal Sovereign 100, Capts. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild and Chas. Thurlow Smith, stationed in the Mediterranean; where, in the course of the same year, he followed the latter officer, as Midshipman, into the Duncan 74, and also into the Undaunted 38; in which frigate he witnessed, in 18l5, the capture of the Tremiti Islands. In Feb. 1816, three months after he had left the Undaunted, he joined the Ramillies 74, bearing the flag of Sir Wm. Johnstone Hope on the Leith station; and he was next, between Nov. 1818 and the date of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant 19 July, 1822, employed in South America, at Plymouth, and in the Mediterranean, on board the Vengeur 74, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, Blossom 24, Capt. Fred. Edw. Vernon (now Harcourt). Impregnable 104, flag-ship of Lord Exmouth, Chanticleer sloop, Capt. the Earl of Huntingdon, and Revolutionnaire 46, Capt. Hon. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew. His succeeding appointments were – 16 , Oct. 1822, to the Cambrian 48, Capt. Gawen Wm. Hamilton, also in the Mediterranean, whence he returned in July, 1824 – in March, 1825, to the Ranger 28, Capt. Lord Henry Fred. Thynne, fitting for South America – 24 June, 1828, for a few months, to the Gloucester 74, Capt. Henry Stuart, lying at Sheerness – 26 June, 1830, as First, to the Gannet 18, Capt. Mark Halpen Sweny, on the West India station – 30 July, 1832, in a similar capacity (after a brief interval of half-pay), to the Blonde 46, Capt. John Duff Markland, attached to the force off Lisbon – and, 14 July, 1833 (the latter ship having been put out of commission in the preceding Jan.), to the command, which he retained for three years, of the Rapid 10, in South America. On 10 Jan. 1837, as a reward for the manner in which, during his servitude in the Rapid, he had discharged various responsible duties, he was promoted, on the recommendation of Sir Graham Eden Hamond, the Commander-in-Chief, to the rank he at present holds. We may here mention that he had twice when belonging to the Cambrian, and once when in the Briton, jumped overboard and succeeded in saying life. His last appointments were – 13 Aug. 1838, to the Coast Guard, in which service he continued until the early part of 1843 – and, 7 Sept. 1844, to the command of the Osprey 12. While in that vessel he was on several occasions intrusted with the command of squadrons of sloops varying from four to seven in number. Towards the close of 1845, in consequence of the unsettled state of New Zealand, Commander Patten was selected by Sir Thos. John Cochrane, Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies, to act as senior officer on that station, in which capacity he continued to officiate until the arrival of Capt. Chas. Graham in the Castor 36. He remained, however, at New Zealand, engaged with success in the performance of many delicate and arduous services, until at length unavoidably wrecked, in March, 1846, on the western, part of the coast at a place called False Hokianga, which had never been surveyed. Determined upon saving all that they could from the ship, Commander Patten and his crew remained for two months in the vicinity of the spot on which the, catastrophe had occurred, and then commenced a march of 110 miles overland to the opposite side of the island, where, at the expiration of five days, during which, with but three days’ provisions, they had traversed, through rivers and forests, an almost unknown country, in the most inclement weather, they embarked on board H.M. sloop Racehorse.[2] On his arrival home in Dec. 1846, Commander Patten had the satisfaction of not only receiving the full acquittal of a court-martial for the loss of his ship, but of being complimented for the exertions he had made on the disastrous occasion. He is now on half-pay.
He married, 3 April, 1829, Alicia Cavendish, daughter of Wm. Hillier, Esq., of Boley Hill, Rochester.
PATTERSON. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 32.)
William Patterson entered the Navy, 1 July, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Monmouth 64, Capt. Geo. Hart, bearing the flag in Yarmouth Roads of Rear-Admiral Thos. Macnamara Russell. In May, 1805, nine months after he had attained the rating of Midshipman, he removed to the Stately 64, Capt. Geo. Parker; under whom we find him, when in company with the Nassau 64, present, 22 March, 1808, at the capture, off the coast of Zealand, of the Danish 74-gun ship Prindts Christian Frederic, whose surrender was accomplished at the close of an obstinate running fight in which the Stately sustained a loss of 4 men killed and 28 wounded. Following Capt. Parker, in the ensuing May, into the Aboukir 74, he accompanied in that ship the expedition of 1809 to the Walcheren. He afterwards, in Sept. 1811, joined the Hannibal 74, and, in the course of 1812-13, the Christian VII., Bulwark, and Venerable 74’s, all bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Philip Chas. Durham. In the Hannibal and Christian VII. he was successively employed in the Baltic, Channel, and North Sea; in the Bulwark, of which ship he was for a short time Acting-Lieutenant, he served in Basque Roads; and in the Venerable, on his passage to the Leeward Islands, he contributed, in company with the Cyane sloop, to the well-resisted capture, 16 and 20 Jan. 1814, of the French 40-gun frigates Iphigénie and Alcmène. On the latter being added,to the British Navy under the name Palma, Mr. Patterson, by virtue of an order dated 28 Feb. 1814, was nominated one of her Acting-Lieutenants. He was confirmed a Lieutenant 21 Feb. 1815, but has not been since employed.
PATTON. (Captain, 1819. f-p., 18; h-p., 25.)
Hugh Patton is son of the late Colonel Patton, Governor of the island of St. Helena; nephew of the late Philip Patton, Esq., Admiral of the Red;[3]
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1806, p. 373.
- ↑ The fatigue endured by Commander Patten revived the painful effects of a serious injury he had sustained when on duty in the Rapid.
- ↑ Admiral Patton was an officer highly esteemed and justly respected. His last employment afloat was as Commander-in-Chief in the Downs. When Lord Barham presided over naval affairs, he filled a seat at the Board of Admiralty. He was the author of a work entitled ‘The Natural Defence of an Insular Empire earnestly recommended.’ He died 31 Dec. 1816, at Fareham, Hants, aged 76.
