A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hay, Peter
HAY. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 22; h-p., 24.)
Peter Hay entered the Navy, about April, 1801 , as A.B., on board the Cambridge 74, Capt. Rich. Lane, bearing the flag at Plymouth of Sir Thos. Pasley. In Oct. following he became Midshipman of the Centaur 74, Capt. Bendall Robt. Littlehales, stationed in the Channel; where, in April, 1803, after an unemployed interval of 12 months, he joined the Spitfire sloop, Capt. Robt. Keen. While next attached, between June in the latter year and Nov. 1812, to the Foudroyant 80, successive flag-ship, on the Home, Lisbon, and Brazilian stations, of Admirals Sir Thos. Graves, Sir John Borlase Warren, Albemarle Bertie, Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, and Hon. Mich. De Courcy, we find Mr. Hay, wh6 during a great portion of the period bore the rating of a Master’s Mate, assisting at the capture, 13 March, 1806, of the Marengo 80, bearing the flag of Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule; and next, in 1807, witnessing the departure for South America of the Royal Family of Portugal. He subsequently, from Dec. 1812 until within a few weeks of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 20 Sept. 1815, served under Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo on the Canadian lakes, and participated in many acts of hostility with the American enemy. His after-appointments were – 2 March, 1827, to the Coast Blockade, in which service he remained, with his name on the books of the Ramillies and Talavera 74’s, both commanded by Capt. Hugh Pigot, until Noy. 1830 – and, 1 Nov. 1833, to an Agency for Transports afloat. He resigned the duties of the latter office in the spring of 1834, but, resuming them in Oct. 1835, continued in discharge of them until the close of 1839. He has since been on half-pay.