A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hamilton, Joseph
HAMILTON. (Commander, 1828. f-p., 18; h-p., 16.)
Joseph Hamilton died in 1845.
This officer entered the Navy, 2 April, 1811, as a Supernumerary, on board the Phipps gun-brig, Capt. Christ. Bell, from which vessel he almost immediately removed to the Caledonia 120, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Sir Edw. Pellew. After participating, as Midshipman, in the partial action of 5 Nov. 1813 with the Toulon fleet, he became attached to the Alcmène 38, Capt. Jeremiah Coghlan, under whom, in 1814-15, he witnessed the capture of a large convoy under the guns of Porto Maurizio, as also the surrender of Genoa and Naples. Rejoining Lord Exmouth in Oct. of the latter year on board the Boyne 98, he continued to serve with that nobleman, latterly in the Queen Charlotte 100, until after the battle of Algiers, 27 Aug. 1816. He then went back to the Boyne, in which ship, and again in the Queen Charlotte, we find him for two years employed at Portsmouth under the flags of Sir Edw. Thornbrough and Sir Geo. Campbell. After a further servitude of three years on the Home station in the Liffey 50, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan, and of a few weeks in the Andromache frigate, Capt. Joseph Nourse, he obtained a commission dated 29 Jan. 1822. His succeeding appointments were – chiefly in the West Indies – 1 Feb. 1822, to the Helicon 10, Capts. Wm. Robt. Dawkins and Thos. Tucker – 8 Feb. 1825, to the Rattlesnake 28, Capts. Hugh Patton and John Leith – and, 2 July, 1827, to the Barham 50, Capt. Sir John Louis. He attained the rank of Commander 4 Oct. 1828, but was not afterwards employed afloat.
Commander Hamilton was for some time, we understand, a Commissioner of Taxes and Stipendiary Magistrate at British Guiana. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.