A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hall, Thomas Samuel
HALL. (Lieutenant, 1816. f-p., 28; h-p., 11.)
Thomas Samuel Hall entered the Navy, 26 Sept. 1808, as a Volunteer, on board the Arethusa 38, Capt. Robt. Mends, under whom he took part in many active operations on the north coast of Spain, and witnessed the capture, 6 April, 1809, of the French 40-gun frigate Le Niemen. He afterwards, between May, 1810, and May, 1815, served, chiefly as Midshipman, in the Hazard sloop, Capts. Wm. Elliot and John Cookesley, Vigo 74, Capt. Hen. Manaton Ommanney, Antelope 50, Capt. Sam. Butcher, Pique 36, Capt. Hon. Anthony Maitland, Emulous brig, and Arachne 18, both commanded by Capt. Wm. M‘Kenzie Godfrey, Warrior 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral John Erskine Douglas, and Shark receiving-ship, Capt. Houston Stewart, on the Newfoundland, Baltic, Home, and Jamaica stations. He was then successively nominated Acting-Lieutenant, in the West Indies and South America, of the North Star 20, Capt. Thos. Coe, Emulous, Capts. Thos. Wren Carter arid Caleb Jackson, and Forester 16, Capt. Wm. Hendry. Being officially promoted by commission dated 1 Jan. 1816, he was subsequently appointed – 5 March, 1825, to the Coast Blockade, in which service he continued, with his name successively on the books of the Ramillies and Talavera 74’s, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot, until its abolition in March, 1831 – on 31 of the latter month, to the Coast Guard – 12 Oct. 1836, to the Ranger Revenue-vessel, the command of which he retained until superseded in Nov. 1839 – 18 Aug. 1840, again to the Coast Guard – 3 Sept. 1841, to the Victory 104, guard-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Wm. Wilmott Henderson – and, 12 Dec. 1845, to an Admiralty agency in a contract mail steam-vessel. He has been on half-pay since the spring of 1846.
Lieut. Hall is Senior of 1816. Agents – Messrs. Chard.