Admiralty to command a West Indiaman, in which he traded to Jamaica until 183S. He had frequently during the war had charge of a prize. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
PHELPS. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
Henry Phelps entered the Navy, 18 April, 1832; passed his examination 4 June, 1838; and while serving, as Mate, on board the Powerful 84, Commodore Chas. Napier, was present at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre 3 Nov. 1840. On 21 July, 1842, being then Mate of the Cornwallis 72, flagship of Sir Wm. Parker, he assisted in the boats in covering the assault made on the city of Chin-Kiang-Foo.[1] For his services in China he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 23 Dec. 1842.[2] His appointments have since been – 18 March, 1843, again to the Cornwallis, in which ship he continued until her return to England in 1844 – 15 April, 1845, to the Melampus 42, Capt. John Norman Campbell, with whom he again sailed for the East Indies – and, 2 June, 1847, to the St. Vincent 120, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Chas. Napier.
PHEPOE. (Retired Commander, 1848. f-p., 12; h-p., 34.)
John Phepoe, born 10 Aug. 1786, is son of John Phepoe, Esq., of Dublin, Colonel of a regiment of the Irish Volunteers of 1782.
This officer entered the Navy 15 May, 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Atlas 98, Capt. Theophilus Jones, attached to the Channel fleet, with which he served until April, 1802. In the following Oct. he joined the Galgo 16, Capt. Michael Dodd, stationed on the coast of Ireland; he next, in May, 1803, became Midshipman of the Minotaur 74, Capt. Chas. John Moore Mansfield, again in the Channel; and in Aug. 1805 he was received on board the Ajax 74, Capts. Wm. Brown, John Pilfold, and Hon. Henry Blackwood. He was in the latter ship when she caught fire and was burnt off the island of Tenedos 14 Feb. 1797; on which occasion he was obliged, in order to save his life, to plunge into the sea, and to support himself, by dint of swimming, until picked up by a boat belonging to H.M.S. Canopus. Being at once received into the Thunderer 74, Capt. John Talbot, he served with Sir John Duckworth at the ensuing passage of the Dardanells, and then accompanied the expedition to Egypt, where he landed and cooperated with the army in the two unsuccessful attacks on Rosetta. From the Thunderer Mr. Phepoe, in Sept. 1808, was transferred to the Warspite 74, commanded by his former Captain, Blackwood, with whom he continued employed on Home service until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 13 June, 1809. In the following Sept., after having been attached to the flotilla in the operations against Walcheren, he obtained an appointment to the Armide 38, Capts. Lucius Ferdinand Hardyman, Rich. Dalling Dunn, Fras. Temple, and Sir Edw. Thos.Troubridge; in the boats of which ship, aided by those of the Cadmus sloop and Monkey and Daring gun-brigs, we find him, 4 May, 1811 [errata 1], contributing to the destruction of 13 out of a convoy of 17 sail, defended, at the Ile de Ré, by batteries on shore, two armed luggers, and several pinnaces – the loss of the British amounting, on the occasion, to 3 killed and 3 wounded, all belonging to the Armide. In command, 19 Oct. following, of two boats, carrying 22 men, Mr. Phepoe, in company with two other boats under the orders of Lieut. Jas. Couch of the Acasta 40, captured in a calm on the coast of France an American schooner, the Trojan, pierced for 18 guns, but carrying only 4 12-pounder carronades and 2 swivels, with a crew of 22 men. From March, 1813, to March, 1814, he served on the Newfoundland station in the Sybille 44, Capts. Clotworthy Upton and Jas. Sanders. The latter was his last appointment. He accepted his present rank 5 Jan. 1848. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
PHILIPPS. (Lieutenant, 1844.)
Griffith Grismond Philipps is son of Commander John Henry Philipps, R.N.
This officer served as Midshipman of the Dartmouth 42, Capt. Thos. Fellowes, at the battle of Navarin 20 Oct. 1827. He passed his examination in 1831; and obtained, 28 June, 1838, a commission, the date of which was afterwards altered to 7 Feb. 1844. His appointments have since been – 5 July, 1838, as Additional Lieutenant, to the Cornwallis 72, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. Harvey in North America and the West Indies – 28 March, 1839, to the Seringapatam 42, Capts. John Leith and Wm. Ward Percival Johnson, on the same station, whence he returned to England and was paid off in Nov. 1841 – 9 March, 1842, as First, to the Ringdove 16, Capt. Sir Wm. Daniell, with whom he served in the West Indies until Feb. 1844 – 2 June, 1845, to the Hecate steam-sloop, of 240-horse power, Capt. Joseph West, fitting for the coast of Africa – and, 23 Nov. 1847, after a brief interval of half-pay, to the Acheron steam surveying-vessel, of 160-horse power, Capt. John Lort Stokes, now in the East Indies. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
PHILIPPS. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 18; h-p., 33.)
John George Philipps was born in Sept. 1783. His father, the late J. Y. Philipps, Esq., was many years M.P. for the borough of Caermarthen.
This officer entered the Navy, in May, 1796, as a Vol., on board the Russel 74, Capt. Thos. Larcom, bearing the flag of Vice- Admiral John Macbride in the North Sea. Removing, in the following Sept., to the Minotaur 74, Capt. Thos. Louis, he served in that ship, as Midshipman, at the battle of the Nile 1 Aug. 1798; and, continuing in her until March, 1802, was present on shore at the capture of Naples, Civita Vecchia, Rome, &c., co-operated in the siege of Genoa, and took part in the operations of 1801 in Egypt. He also, 3 Sept. 1800, served in one of eight boats which brought out from Barcelona Roads, after having sustained a loss of 3 men killed and 5 wounded, the Spanish corvettes Esmeralda and Paz of 22 guns each, although defended by a heavy fire from four strong batteries, 10 gun-boats, two schooners, armed between them with 4 long 36-pounders, and a fort upon Mount loni, which threw shells. The enemy in the affair had 3 men killed and 21 wounded. On leaving the Minotaur, as above, Mr. Philipps joined the Ardent 64, Capt. Wm. Nowell, on the Home station; where, and on the coast of North America, we find him, until March, 1806, employfed in succession, the greater part of the time as Acting-Lieutenant and Lieutenant, in the Argonaut and Leander, flagships of Admiral Bartholomew Samuel Rowley and Sir Andrew Mitchell, Cambrian 40, Capt. Wm. Bradley, and Avenger sloop, Capt. Thos. White. His official promotion took place while he was in the latter vessel, 8 Feb. 1805; His subsequent appointments were – in March, 1806, to the Lavinia 40, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, employed in the Channel and on the north coast of Spain – 8 Dec. 1807, to the Pilot 18, Capt. Hon. Wm. Walpole, lying at Portsmouth – 25 March, 1808, to the Speedy sloop, Capt. Rich. Henry Muddle, at Newfoundland – in March, 1809, to the Majestic 74, Capt. Thos. Harvey, in the Baltic – and, in Jan. 1810, and April, 1811, to the Redpole 10, Capt. Cohn Macdonald, and Monmouth 64, bearing the flag of the late Sir Thos. Foley, both in the Downs. Becoming, in May, 1814, Signal-Lieutenant to the officer last mentioned, he was lent soon afterwards to the Royal Sovereign yacht, Capt. Sir John Poo Beresford, to assist in escorting Louis XVIII. from Dover to Calais. He was advanced to his present rank 22 Oct. following; and has since been on half-pay.
Commander Philipps is a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for co. Caermarthen. He married, in Feb. 1808, and has issue nine children. One of his sons, Griffith Grismond, is a Lieutenant,
