A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hay, John Baker Porter
HAY. (Captain, 1842.)
John Baker Porter Hay entered the Navy, 28 Dec. 1811; and, obtaining his first commission 24 April, 1824, was afterwards appomted Lieutenant – 12 March, 1827, of the Romney 50, armée en flûte, Capt. Nicholas Lockyer, which ship was paid off 12 Oct. following – in 1828, of the Wasp 18, Capts. Rich. Dickinson, Hon. Wm. Wellesley, Thos. Edwd. Hoste, Orlando Geo. Sutton Gunning, and Brunswick Popham, on the Mediterranean station, whence he invalided 15 June, 1831 – 4 May, 1836, of the Cornwallis 74, Capts. Robt. Worgan Geo. Festing, Sir Joshua Ricketts Rowley, and Sir Rich. Grant, stationed at first off Lisbon, but afterwards employed as flag-ship of Hon. Sir Chas. Paget, Commander-in-Chief in North America and the West Indies. On the death of the latter officer, Mr. Hay, who for upwards of three years had officiated as First of the Cornwallis, was advanced to the command, by commission dated 30 Jan. 1839, of the Snake 16, which sloop he brought home and paid off towards the close of the same year. His last appointment was, 26 Nov. 1841, to the Second-Captaincy of the Queen 110, fitting for the flag of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen; in honour of Her Majesty’s visit to which ship, when lying at Spithead, and on the eve of her departure for the Mediterranean, he was advanced to his present rank 7 March 1842. Agents—Case and Loudonsack.