A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bridges, James Henry
BRIDGES. (Lieutenant, 1838.)
James Henry Bridges entered the Navy, 26 Feb. 1826, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on borad the Ariadne 28, Capt. Adolphus FitzClarence, whom, after serving in the Mediterranean, he followed into the Challenger 28. He next, in Sept. 1830, joined the Pallas 42, Capts. Manley Hall Dixon and Wm. Walpole; and in May, 1834 (having passed his examination in Dec. 1832), he became Mate of the Portland 50, Capt. David Price, in the Mediterranean. After a further employment of three years and a half in the Pantaloon tender, commanded on Particular Service by Lieuts. Nicholas Cory and John M‘Donell, Mr. Bridges was promoted to his present rank by commission dated 28 June, 1838. His appointments have since been – 14 July, 1838, to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings – 1 Feb. 1840, and 14 Feb. 1841, to the Thunderer 84, Capt. Maurice Fred. Fitzhardinge Berkeley, and Edinburgh 72, Capt. Wm. Wilmott Henderson, both on the Mediterranean station, where he took part in the operations of 1840 on the coast of Syria, including the capture of St. Jean d’Acre – 25 Oct. 1841, to the Alfred 50, bearing the broad pendant in South America of Commodore John Brett Purvis, – and, 4 March, 1846, as First-Lieutenant, to the Brilliant 22, Capt. Bundle Burges Watson, in which ship he is now serving at the Cape of Good Hope. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.