| Description | Includes notes that he served as a volunteer of the 1st class on HMS Isis from 3 September 1831 to 4 September 1833 then as midshipman until 13 December 1834 under Captain Polkington; a separate note gives him serving on the HMS Isis as a 1st class volunteer from 3 September 1831 to 31 December 1831; midshipman on HMS Jupiter from 11 March to 11 May 1835 under Captain EW Crust and from 4 September 1835 to 27 September 1836 under Captain Thomas Warley[?] that he served on HMS Coway from 12 October 1836 to 18 November 1838 and that he was in command of Her Majesty's schooner 'Hebe', attached to the Conway as a tender from 1 September and 27 October 1840, signed Captain Charles Ramsay Drinkwater-Bethune; on board HMS Frolic at Rio de Janeiro under Captain Willis from 5 November to 11 November, 1844 and from 10 November to 14 December, under Commander Hamilton. |