A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hennah, Frederick
HENNAH. (Lieutenant, 1829.)
Frederick Hennah died in 1845.
This officer entered the Navy in Jan. 1821; passed his examination in 1827; and obtained his commission 8 Aug. 1829. He then obtained command of the Speedwell schooner, on the Jamaica station, and was afterwards appointed – 26 Oct. 1830, to the Revenge 78, Capts. Jas. Hillyar and Donald Hugh Mackay, employed on particular service and on the Lisbon station – 30 Oct. 1832, to the Spartiate 76, flag-ship of Sir Michael Seymour in South America – 5 Sept. 1835, for a few days, to the Pylades 18, Capt. Wm. Langford Castle, fitting for the Cape of Good Hope – 18 March, 1836, 26 Sept. 1839, and 31 Oct. 1840, to the Talavera 74, Capts. Thos. Ball Sulivan and Wm. Bowen Mends, Pembroke 72, Capt. Fairfax Moresby, and Monarch 84, Capt. Sam. Chambers, all oh the Jamaica station, where, with the exception of a few months in the last mentioned year, he served until the close of 1843 – and 27 April, 1844, to the command of a station in the Coast Guard, which he retained until the period of his death.