A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Haymes, Philip George
HAYMES. (Captain, 1846. f-p., 14; h-p., 30.)
Philip George Haymes entered the Navy, 1 June, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Romulus, Capt. Woodley Losack, and after serving for some time with the same officer as Midshipman in the Helena sloop on the Home station, joined, in 1806, the Prince George 98, Capt. Geo. Losack, and sailed for the West Indies. Between 1807 and 1812, he was next employed, on the Guernsey, Baltic, and Mediterranean stations, in the Diomede 50 and Victory 100, flag-ships of Sir Jas. Saumarez, Phoebe 36, Capts. Hassard Stackpoole and Jas. Hillyar, and San Josef 110, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Cotton. He then rejoined Sir Jas. Saumarez on board the Victory, and on 23 July in the same year, 1812, was appointed, with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant, to the command of a gun-boat, in which we find him co-operating with the Russian flotilla in the defence of Riga, and participating in a successful expedition against the French and Prussians at Mittau, on the river Aa. Being rewarded for his services with a commission dated on 20 of the following Nov., Mr. Haymes was subsequently, after an intermediate attachment to the Russian Admiral’s flag-ship, appointed, 30 Dec. 1812, to the Royal Oak 74, bearing the successive flags, on the Home and American stations, of Lord Amelius Beauclerk and the late Sir Pulteney Malcolm. On 13 March, 1815, having acted as Naval Aide-de-Camp to Major-Generals Ross and Gibbs during the expeditions against Washington, Baltimore, and New Orleans, he was advanced to the rank of Commander. Capt. Haymes’ only appointment in the latter capacity appears to have been, 18 Dec. 1841, to the Fantome 16, in which sloop he returned home from South America, and was paid off towards the close of 1843. He attained Post-rank 9 Nov. 1846.
Capt. Haymes is married and has issue. Agents Messrs. Halford and Co.