A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Buchan, David Adye
BUCHAN. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
David Adye Buchan entered the Navy 2 March, 1821; passed his examination 24 July, 1830; was promoted from the Mastiff, Master-Commander Geo. Thomas, then employed in surveying the Orkneys, 17 Aug. 1841; joined, on 31 of the same month, the Vixen steam-vessel, Capt. Henry Boyes; was transferred, 5 Feb. 1842, to the Agincourt 72, flagship in the East Indies of Sir Thos. John Cochrane; and since 16 March, 1846, has been occupied as First of the Firefly steam surveying-vessel, commanded in the Irish Channel by Capt. Fred. Wm. Beechey.