A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Agassiz, James David
AGASSIZ. (Lieutenant, 1829.)
James David Agassiz is son of Capt. J. J. C. Agassiz, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 7 May, 1815; passed his examination in 1823; and was promoted to a Lieutenancy, 20 March, 1829, in the Primrose 18, Capt. Thos. S. Griffinhoofe, on the coast of Africa, whence he returned to England in Jan. 1830. His appointments have since been – 28 Feb 1838, to the Donegal 78, Capt. John Drake, on the Lisbon station – 25 May, 1838, to the Pembroke 72, Capt. Fairfax Moresby, in the Mediterranean – and 6 April, 1844, as First Lieutenant, to the America 50, Capt. Hon. John Gordon, with whom he returned home from the Pacific in the summer of 1846.