A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bland, Alleyne

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BLAND. (Lieutenant, 1845.)

Alleyne Bland entered the Navy in 1832, and passed his examination 3 July, 1839. After serving for a considerable time as Mate, on the East India and Home stations, of the Druid 44, Capt. Henry Smith, and Excellent gunnery-ship, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, he was promoted to a Lieutenancy, 24 March, 1845, in the Racehorse 18, Capts. Geo. Jas. Hay and Edw. Southwell Sotheby, with the latter of whom he is again doing duty in the East Indies. He appears, on 10 and 11 Jan. 1846, to have been employed on shore in directing the fire of a breaching battery, in a successful attack made by the British on a stronghold belonging to a rebel chief named Kawiti, at Ruapikapika, in New Zealand.^[1]

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1. Vide Gaz. 1846, p. 2346.