A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hare, Thomas
HARE. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 1 7; h-p., 25.)
Thomas Hare entered the Navy, 25 Jan. 1805, as A.B., on board the Fervent 12, Lieut.-Commander John Edw. Hare, whom he accompanied to the Mediterranean. He there removed, as Midshipman, in Nov. 1806, to the Morgiana sloop, Capt. Thos. Landless; and he next, from Aug. 1807 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 4 Feb. 1815, served uninterruptedly on the Home station in the Snake, Capt. Thos. Young, Namur, Capt. Rich. Jones, Starling, Lieut.-Commander Chas. Fred. Napier, Exertion, Lieut.-Commander Jas. Murray, Raisonnable 64, Capt. Edw. Sneyd Clay, and Impregnable, flag-ship for some time of Admirals Wm. Young, and of H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence, and afterwards commanded by Capts. John Wentworth Loring, Robt. Hall, and Jas. Nash. On 2 Aug. 1811, while Sub-Lieutenant of the Exertion, Mr. Hare assisted in the boats of a squadron, 10 in number, and carrying 116 men, under the command of Lieut. Sam. Blyth, at the cutting-out, from within the island of Mordeney, near the Texel, of four Danish gun-vessels, each armed with 1 long-12, and 2 long 6 or 8 pounders, and 25 men, including 5 soldiers, and commanded by a Lieutenant-de-Vaisseau of the French Navy; an exploit that was not accomplished until the enemy had sustained a loss of 4 men killed and 12 wounded, and the British, after an exposure to a fire of grape and canister, and a hard struggle, of 2 killed and 9 wounded, independently of 19 persons who were killed and wounded in the early part of the contest by an accidental explosion on board one of the gun-boats. Mr. Hare subsequently, when in the Impregnable under the Duke of Clarence, escorted the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia to England. He was lastly employed in command, from 26 Oct. 1836 until 1844, of a station in the Coast Guard. Agent – J. Hinxman.