GEORGE JAMES HAY, Esq.
[Commander.]
Second son of the late Lieut.-General Hay, Lieutenant-Governor of Edinburgh Castle.
This officer passed his examination, and was made a lieutenant, in July 1815. He served under Captain (afterwards Sir Murray) Maxwell, in the Alceste frigate, during Lord Amherst’s embassy to China, in 1816-17[1]; and subsequently under Captain Fairfax Moresby, in the Menai 26, on the Cape of Good Hope station. He obtained his present rank in Sept. 1828; and married, June 24th, 1830, at the Hague, Georgiana Middleton, fourth daughter of Sir John R. Whitefoord.
JOSEPH HAMILTON, Esq.
[Commander.]
Served the last three years of his time, as midshipman, under Captain the Hon. Henry Duncan, in the Liffey 50; obtained his first commission on the 29th Jan. 1822; and was advanced to his present rank Oct. 4th, 1828.
JULIUS JAMES FARMER NEWELL, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant in Mar. 1815; appointed to the Pandora sloop, Captain C. G. Randolf, fitting out for the Cork station, Jan. 29th, 1819; and advanced to his present rank on the 20th Nov. 1828.
In Mar. 1834, a novel mode of transporting an anchor, projected by Commander Newell, was tried at Devonport, before the officers of H.M. dock-yard. It consisted in lashing two canvass bags of a conical shape each side, and the whole length of the shank. The base of the cone corresponded with the projection of the stock from the shank, the apex or point well secured to the crown of the anchor;
