A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hickes, Augustus Thomas
HICKES. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 12; h-p., 31.)
Augustus Thomas Hickes entered the Navy, 16 Aug. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Defiance 74, Capts. Philip Chas. Durham and Hon. Henry Hotham. During a continuance of nearly six years in that ship, he served, in 1805, in Sir Robt. Calder’s action and the battle of Trafalgar, and, on 24 Feb. 1809, at the destruction of three French frigates under the batteries of Sable d’Olonne, on which occasion the Defiance, besides being much cut up in her masts and rigging, sustained a loss of 2 men killed and 25 wounded. He was also much employed in co-operation with the patriots on the north coast of Spain. After a further attachment of some months with Capt. Hotham to the Northumberland 74, and a short servitude in the Barfleur 98, bearing the flag at Lisbon of Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley, he was promoted, 8 March, 181 1, to the rank of Lieutenant, and appointed, for passage home, to the Formidable 98, Capt. Jas. Nicoll Morris. He next, from 8 of the following Oct. until April, 1815, served in the Bay of Biscay and at the Cape of Good Hope on board the Dannemark 74, Capts. Jas. Bissett and Henry Edw. Reginald Baker; and he was lastly appointed, 17 April, 1818, to the Falmouth sloop, Capt. Geo. Fred. Rich, successively stationed in the North Sea and off the coast of Iceland. He has been on half-pay since March, 1819. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.