A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Haydon, William Phippard
HAYDON. (Lieut., 1809. f-p., 12; h-p., 32)
William Phippard Haydon entered the Navy 12 April, 1803, as Master’s Mate, on board the Winchelsea, Lieut.-Commander Pope, lying at Sheerness. In Aug. following he removed to the Romney 50, Capts. Wm. Brown and Hon. John Colville, under the latter of whom, on his return from a voyage to the coast of Africa, he was wrecked, m a fog, on the Haaks, near the Texel, 19 Nov. 1804. He was then received on board the Vestal 28, Capt. Stephen Thos. Digby, and after participating, during the summer of 1805, in many warm engagements with the enemy’s flotilla and batteries near Calais, he accompanied that officer into the Argo 44, and again sailed for the African station. In the course of 1808 we find him successively transferred to the Belleisle 74, and Neptune 98, bearing each the flag of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, by whom, subsequently to the fall of Martinique, he was nominated, 29 June, 1809, Acting-Lieutenant of the Alcmène frigate, Capt. Wm. Maude. He was confirmed, 8 Dec. following, into the Guadeloupe 16, Capt. Michael Head, also attached to the force at the West Indies; on his return whence, he joined, 6 Sept. and 20 Nov. 1810, the Hibernia 120, and Centaur 74, both commanded by Capt. John Chambers White. In the latter ship Mr. Haydon, after serving for some time with the inshore squadron off Toulon, co-operated in the defence of Tarragona, and, in April, 1814, witnessed the destruction, up the Gironde, of a French line-of-battle ship, three brigs of war, several smaller vessels, and of all the ports and batteries on the north side of the river. He was superseded from the Centaur at his own request 24 Dec. 1814, and has since been on halt-pay.