A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Avarne, Isaac
AVARNE. (Lieutenant, 1824.)
Isaac Avarne died in 1845.
This officer entered the Navy, in Feb. 1810, as Midshipman, on board the Alexandria 32, Capt. John Quilliam, stationed on the Baltic. After serving with the same officer also in the Crescent 36, he became -successively attached, on the Home and Mediterranean stations, to the Royal Oak 74, flagship of Rear-Admirals Pulteney Malcolm and Lord Amelius Beauclerk, and Grasshopper 18, Capts. Hen. Robt. Battersby and Sir Chas. Burrard. Between 1816, in which year he passed his examination, and the date of his promotion, 17 April, 1824, Mr. Avarne appears to have been next employed, as Mate, on board the Wye 26, commanded in North America and the West Indies by Capt. John Harper, and Britannia 120, bearing the flag at Plymouth of Sir Alex. Cochrane. His subsequent appointments were – 24 July, 1824, to the Romney troop-ship, Capts. Wm. Jas. Mingaye and Nich. Lockyer, in which he visited the coasts of America and Africa, and also the Mediterranean – and, 30 April, 1827, again to the Britannia, bearing the flag of the Earl of Northesk. He went on half-pay in Feb. 1828, and did not afterwards go afloat. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.