A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Alston, Edward Hughes
ALSTON. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Edward Hughes Alston entered the Navy, 26 Dec. 1826; passed his examination 15 Sept. 1835; obtained a commission 28 July, 1841; and from 6 Aug. following until the close of 1842, served in the Mediterranean on board the Cambridge 78, Capt. Edw. Barnard. He next joined, on 11 Dec. 1844, the Hydra steam-sloop, Capt. Horatio Beauman Young, stationed off the coast of Africa, where he became First Lieutenant, 2 April, 1845, of the Banger 6, Capt. Jas. Anderson. Since 1846 he has been serving on the same station as Acting-Commander of the Pantaloon.