A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Drew, Frederick
DREW. (Lieutenant, 1836.)
Frederick Drew, born 26 Dec. 1803, at Devonport, is younger brother of Commander Geo. Drew, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1812, as a Volunteer, on board the Royal George 100, Capt. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, attached to the fleet in the Mediterranean. He afterwards served under the same officer, and Capts. Theobald Jones and Sir Thos. John Cochrane, in the Centaur 74, Tonnant 80, Malta 84, Windsor Castle 74, Cherokee brig, and Forte 44, on the Cape, Home, and West India stations. Passing his examination in Feb. 1823, he became successively Mate – of the Northumberland, Spartiate, Cambridge, and Gloucester 74’s, commanded in the river Medway by Capts. Thos. Jas, Maling and Joshua Sydney Horton – of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye, employed on the Coast Blockade – and, on the South American station, of the Dublin 50, Capt. Lord Jas. Townshend, Rattlesnake 28, Capt. Chas. Graham, Clio 18, Capt. John Jas. Onslow, and Warspite 76, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Thos. Baker. After 13 years’ servitude as Mate, Mr. Drew was at length promoted, from the Confiance steamer, Lieut.-Commander John Middleton Waugh, to an Additional-Lieutenancy, 6 July, 1836, in the Dublin 50, bearing the flag of Sir Graham Eden Hamond, also in South America; where he subsequently joined, 3 March and 3 July, 1837, the Imogene, and Cleopatra 26, Capts. Henry Wm. Bruce and Hon. Geo. Grey. In the latter vessel we eventually find him escorting the Marquess of Clanricarde as Ambassador to St. Petersburgh. He afterwards commanded the Mutine, Sheldrake, and Lapwing brigs, on the Halifax and South American stations; and, since 31 Oct. 1842, has been in the Coast Guard. Agents – Pettet and Newton.