A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Clarke, Job Bennet
CLARKE. (Lieut., 1822. f-p., 17; h-p., 19.)
Job Bennet Clarke entered the Navy, in May, 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Goree 18, Capt. Hon. Henry Dilkes Byng, on the North American station, where, removing soon afterwards, as Midshipman, to the Emulous 18, Capt. Wm. Howe Mulcaster, he assisted, 30 July, 1812, at the capture of the Gossamer United States privateer, of 14 guns and 100 men, and was wrecked, on Sable Island, 3 Aug. following. He next joined the Aeolus 32, Capt. Lord. Jas. Townshend, from which frigate he appears to have been transferred to the Laurestinus 24, Capt. Thos. Graham, in time to be again wrecked, on the Silver Keys, Bahama Islands, 22 Oct. 1813. After an additional servitude in the Barrosa 36, Capt. Wm. Henry Shirreff, and Florida 20, Capt. Nathaniel Mitchell, on the America and West India station, Mr. Clarke, in 1815, sailed for the East Indies on board the Orlando 36, Capt. John Clavell, and, on his return to England in 1818, entered the Coast Blockade service, as Midshipman of the Severn, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch. On 30 June, 1820, we find him, as Acting-Lieutenant, assuming an appointment, under the Hon. Capt. Byng, on Lake Champlain, of which – being officially promoted 26 Dec. 1822 – he retained possession until 1826. He returned to Canada early in 1839, as Lieutenant of the Niagara 20, Capt. Williams Sandom, but came home in 1840, and, on 5 April, 1342, obtained a command in the Coast Guard. Since the spring of 1843, Lieut. Clarke has again been on half-pay. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.