A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Congdon, William
CONGDON. (Lieut., 1816. f-p., 24; h-p., 16.)
William Congdon entered the Navy, 26 Nov. 1807, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the Superb 74, Capt. Sam. Jackson, with whom he soon afterwards visited the Mediterranean in pursuit of a French squadron that had effected its escape from Rochefort. After a further servitude of some months in the Baltic under the flag of Sir Rich. Goodwin Keats, the subject of this notice – who had in the mean while contributed, in the Mistletoe, tender to the Superb, to the capture of one and the defeat of another of the enemy’s brigs – joined the Derwent 18, Capt. Joseph Swabey Tetley, off Flushing. He next, in the early part of 1810, proceeded to the East Indies as Midshipman of the Chichester store-ship, Master-Commander Wm. M‘Kirby; and becoming attached, subsequently, to the Illustrious 74, Commodore Wm. Robt. Broughton, and Caroline 36, Capt. Christopher Cole, assisted at the reduction of Java in Aug. 1811. From Jan. 1812 to March, 1814, he appears to have again served with Mr. M‘Kirby in the Abundance and Cormorant store-ships, on the Mediterranean, Cape of Good Hope, and Lisbon stations; after which we find him doing duty at Newfoundland, as Acting Master, Master’s Mate, and Admiralty-Midshipman, in the Comet 20, Capt. Geo. Wm. Blarney, and Bellerophon 74, and Salisbury 50, flag-ships of Sir R. G. Keats, until promoted, on his return home, 6 May, 1816. From 7 June, 1831, until 1845, he held command of a station in the Coast Guard. He is now unemployed.
Lieut. Congdon is married, and has issue.