A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hemmans, Samuel Hood
HEMMANS. (Lieutenant, 1813.)
Samuel Hood Hemmans entered the Navy, 10 July, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Boreas 22, Capt. Robt. Scott, which vessel, after having effected the capture of La Victoire privateer, of 8 swivels and 28 men, was lost, together with her Commander and all but 68 of her crew, on the Hannois rocks, near Guernsey, 5 Dec. 1807. Mr. Hemmans, who previously to that catastrophe had attained the rating of Midshipman, was subsequently, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 5 Feb. 1813, employed, on the Home, Baltic, and Mediterranean stations, in the Resolution and Pompée 74’s, Capts. Geo. Burlton and Geo. Hope, Victory 100, flagship of Sir Jas. Saumarez, and Volage 22, and Resistance 36, Capts. Philip L. J. Rosenhagen, Chas. Hole, Wm. Hamilton, and Hon. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew. Being then appointed to the Undaunted 38, Capts. Thos. Ussher and Chas. Thurlow Smith, he assisted in that frigate in conveying Napoleon Buonaparte from Frejus to Elba in 1814, and was present in her at the capture of the Tremiti islands in 1815. He afterwards joined – 22 Sept. 1815, the Bulwark 74, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Rowley in the river Medway – 27 Feb. 1818, the Curlew 10, Capts. Wm. Walpole and Geo. Cornish Gambier, under the former of whom he was actively employed, in Jan. 1820, against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, where Ras-al-Khyma, their principal resort and head-quarters, was taken, the fortifications destroyed, all their vessels burnt or sunk, and a large quantity of treasure seized – 7 Feb. 1824, the Blanche 46, Capt. Wm. Bowen Mends, fitting for the South American station, whence he returned to England and was paid off 25 Oct. 1827 – and 6 April, 1829, the Herald yacht, Capt. Geo. Berkeley Maxwell, which vessel, employed in attendance on various diplomatic personages, be left about Aug. 1830. He has not been since afloat.
Lieut. Hemmans has for some time, we believe, filled the post of Emigration Agent at Greenock. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.