A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hire, Henry William
HIRE. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Henry William Hire is son of Lieut. Henry Hire, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 9 Feb. 1830; passed his examination 6 April, 1836; and, during the latter portion of his servitude as Mate, was employed in North America and the West Indies on board the Pilot 16, Capt. Geo. Ramsay. Being made Lieutenant, 15 Sept. 1841, into the Racehorse 18, Capt. John Coghlan Fitzgerald, attached to the force on the same station, he there continued to serve, both in the last-mentioned vessel and in the Cleopatra 26, Capt. Christ. Wyvill, until the spring of 1842. His next appointments, it appears, were, in the Mediterranean – 20 June, 1842, as Additional, to the Queen 110, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. W. C. B. Owen – and, 21 Jan. 1843 and 25 Oct. and 16 Nov. 1844, as First, to the Snake 16, Bonetta surveying-vessel, and Hecla steam-sloop, Capts. Hon. Walter Bourchier Devereux, Thos. Saumarez Brock, John Duffill, and Chas. Starmer. He has been employed, since 13 March, 1847, in the Rattler steam-sloop, Capt. Rich. Moorman, on Particular Service.