A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Fiott, William Edward
FIOTT. (Lieutenant, 1810.)
William Edward Fiott entered the Navy, 27 May, 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Agamemnon 64, Capt. Robt. Devereux Fancourt, under whom he bore a part in the action off Copenhagen 2 April, 1801. Removing, in 1802, to the Amphion 32, Capts. Rich. Hen. Alex. Bennett, Alex. Eraser, Thos. Masterman Hardy, and Sam. Sutton, he accompanied Lord Nelson in that frigate to the Mediterranean in 1803; after which he became Midshipman, in 1804, of the Ambuscade 32, Capt. Wm. D’Urban, and Acting-Lieutenant, in 1805, of the Montagu 74, Capt. Robt. Waller Otway. On next joining the Téméraire 98, Capt. Elias Harvey, he shared, we believe, in the battle of Trafalgar. The remaining years of the war he passed on board the Chiffonne 36, Capt. Pat. Campbell, Prince 98, Capts. Rich. Grindall and Wm. Lechmere, Royal Sovereign 100, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Edw. Thornbrough, Eagle 74, Capt. Chas. Rowley, Bucephalus 36, Capt. Chas. Pelly, Marlborough 74, Capt. Mat. Henry Scott, Chatham 74, bearing the flag of the same officer, and Leander 50, Capt. Sir Geo. Ralph Collier, on the Mediterranean, North Sea, East India, Home, and American stations. The Bucephalus formed part of the expedition to the Walcheren in 1809. Lieut. Fiott, whose commission bears date 27 April, 1810, and who left the Leander in 1814, was lastly appointed, in March and Oct. 1823, to the Phaeton 46, Capt. Henry Evelyn Pitfield Sturt, and to the command of the Renegade 4 both attached to the force in the West Indies.