A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gray, Herbert Blachford

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GRAY. (Lieutenant, 1844.)

Herbert Blachford Gray entered the Navy 18 Feb. 1816; was wounded, 20 Oct. 1827, at the battle of Navarin, while serving on board the Genoa 74, Capt. Walter Bathurst;^[1] passed his examination 4 Nov. 1829; procured an appointment in the Coast Guard 4 Dec. 1839; and obtained his commission 5 Jan. 1844. He has since joined – 2 Feb. 1844, the Penelope steam-frigate, Capt. Wm. Jones, on the coast of Africa – 16 July, 1844, the Hydra steam-sloop, Capt. Horatio Beauman Young, on the same station – 3 March, 1846, the Tortoise store-ship at Ascension, Capt. Arthur Morrell – and 2 Dec. 1846, as Senior, the Resistance troop-ship, Capt. Geo. Lowe. Lieut. Gray is. Senior of 1844.

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1. Vide Gaz. 1827, p. 2325.