A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Featherstone, Samuel
FEATHERSTONE. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 15; h-p., 32.)
Samuel Featherstone entered the Navy, 1 March, 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Terrible 74, Capts. Wm. Wolseley and Fras. Fayerman, one of the ships employed in the ensuing expedition to Quiberon. In Oct. 1802, he became Midshipman of the Imogene 18, Capt. Henry Vaughan, on the coast of Africa; and, in 1805, he next joined the Hope tender, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Featherstone, on the Home station. Becoming attached, in April, 1806, to the Windsor Castle 98, Capt. Chas. Boyles, he presently witnessed the capture of four heavy French frigates by a squadron under Sir Sam. Hood; and, in Feb. 1807, he passed the Dardanells. During the last seven years of the war, two of which were passed in the West Indies, and the rest on the Home station, Mr. Featherstone successively joined the Prince Frederick, Lieut.-Commander Abdiel Orfeur, Helder frigate, Capt. John Serrell, Redbreast gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Sir Geo. Mouat Keith, Christian VII. 80, Capt. Henry Lidgbird Ball, Snap 16, Capts. Geo. Rose Sartorius and Wm. Bateman Dashwood, and Tigre 74, Capt. John Halliday. The Snap, on 1 Nov. 1813, fell in, off the coast of France, with five privateer luggers, one of which, Le Lion of 16 guns and 69 men, she brought to close action, and in a few minutes captured. Mr. Featherstone obtained his commission 2 Feb. 1815, but has not since been employed.