A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hinde, Edwin Thomas
HINDE. (Lieutenant, 1844.)
Edwin Thomas Hinde entered the Navy 24 July, 1829; and in 1831, while Midshipman of the Dryad 42, Capt. John Hayes, was officially reported for the conduct he displayed in her tender, the Black Joke, at the capture, by boarding, of a slave-vessel of superior force. He passed his examination 6 July, 1836; was employed, from 1841 until the close of 1843, in the Mediterranean, as Mate of the Monarch 84, Capt. Sam. Chambers; obtained his commission 10 June, 1844; and since 9 Sept. 1844, has been stationed in the East Indies on board the Cruizer 16, Capts. Edw. Gennys Fanshawe, Wm. Maclean, and Edw. Peirse.