A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dayman, Joseph
DAYMAN. (Lieutenant, 1843.)
Joseph Dayman is son of the late Rev. Chas. Dayman, Rector of Great Tew, co. Oxford.
This officer entered the Navy 21 Oct. 1831; and passed his examination 1 1 May, 1838. In 1839 he was appointed Mate of the Erebus bomb, Capt. Jas. Clark Ross; and, on his return home from a four years’ explorative mission to the Antarctic Seas, he was promoted to the rank he now holds 4 Oct. 1843. He was next employed in the survey of the coast of Ireland, from 23 July, 1845, until the close of 1846, as Lieutenant of the Tartarus steamer, Capt. Jas. Wolfe.