A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Armitage, Whaley
ARMITAGE. (Lieut., 1838. f-p., 1 7; h-p., 8.)
Whaley Armitage is a younger son of Whaley Armitage, Esq., of Coole and Drumin, co. Louth, barrister-at-law, by Eleanora, eldest daughter and co-heir of the late Edw. Haistwell, Esq., of Kensington; and grand-nephew of the late Gen. Sir John Braithwaite, Bart., Commander-in-Chief at Madras.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 24 June, 1822; and embarked, 3 June, 1824, on board the Tweed 28, Capts. Fred. Hunn and Lord Henry John Spencer Churchill. After visiting the West Indies and Cape of Good Hope, he became successively Mate, on the former and North and South America stations, of the Sapphire 28, Capt. Hon. Wm. Wellesley, Sparrowhawk 18, Capt. Thos. Metcalfe Currie, Columbine 18, Capt. Henry Ommanney Love, Nimble 5, Lieut.-Commander Jas. Bolton, Forte 44, Capt. Watkin Owen Pell, Pique 36, Capt. Hon. Henry John Rous, and Rover 18, Capt. Chas. Eden. While in the Nimble, in 1833, we find Mr. Armitage assisting at the capture, after a running fight of an hour, of the armed slavers Joaquina and Mannalita. Obtaining his commission, 27 Dec. 1838, he was subsequently appointed – 18 March, 1839, to the Melville 72, fiag-ship at the Cape of Hon. Geo. Elliot – 6 July, 1839, to the command for a few months of the Brisk 3, on the same station – and, 31 Oct. 1840, to the Monarch 84, Capt. Sam. Chambers, in the Mediterranean. He has been on half-pay since the autumn of 1839. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.