A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hope, Sackett
HOPE. (Captain, 1840. f-p., 22; h-p., 11.)
Sackett Hope is brother of the present John Minter Hope, Esq., Paymaster and Purser, R.N. (1814); and of Lieut. Thos. Hope (a), R.N. (1825), an officer who entered the service in 1809, and was in almost constant employment from that period until 1838, when he was lost in command of H.M. schooner Pincher, with all on board, while working into Spithead.
This officer entered the Navy, 2 Nov. 1814, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Icarus 10, Capt. Thos. Barker Devon, which vessel, after serving in the Channel, escorted Napoleon Buonaparte to St. Helena, and was then sent with despatches to the Isle of France and Calcutta. On joining the Liverpool 50, Capt. Fras. Augustus Collier, he accompanied an expedition sent, in 1819, against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, where he assisted at the bombardment and destruction of Ras-al-Khyma, their principal stronghold, and was very actively employed both in the gun-boats and on shore. After visiting China and various parts of India, and passing through scenes of great mortality, he returned to England in 1822 on board the Ganges 84, a new teak-built ship. Having passed his examination in Nov. of the previous year, he was then appointed Mate of the Gloucester 74, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen in the West Indies, on which station we find him cruizing in a tender, off the island of Cuba, for the suppression of piracy and the slave-trade. On his arrival home, Mr. Hope attended the Duke of Clarence on a summer cruize in the Royal Sovereign yacht, Capt. Chas. Adam, and went with the Lords of the Admiralty on a visit of inspection to Plymouth. While next attached, during a period of a few months, to the Brisk 10, Capt. Chas. Hope, he served in the North Sea and Channel, and was occasionally detached in the boats of that vessel for the suppression of smuggling. Between Feb. 1825 and Oct. 1826, he again served in the West Indies on board the Ferret and Scylla sloops, both commanded by Capt. Wm. Hobson. In the boats of the former vessel he once assisted in taking a slaver; and he was in her at a period of so much sickness that 12 out of 75 were all who were enabled to remain on board. During the whole term of his attachment to the Scylla, a period of seven months, Mr. Hope had charge of a watch, and was twice invested with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant. On 11 Dec. 1826, shortly after his rejunction to the Ferret, he was promoted to be her First-Lieutenant – a rank in which he was afterwards appointed – 25 May, 1828, to the Arachne 18, Capt. Henry Smith – 30 Aug. in the same year, to the Ferret again, Capt. Chas. Deare, with whom he returned home from the West Indies, much impaired in health, and was paid off in the following Nov. – 11 July, 1832 (after many ineffectual attempts to procure employment) to the Beacon surveying-vessel, Capt. Rich. Copeland, on the Mediterranean station – and, 15 July, 1836, to the Inconstant 36, Capts. John Hayes and Dan. Pring. In April, 1833, Lieut. Hope took command of, the boats of the Beacon, manned by 36 officers and men, and of a gun-boat with 5 Turks on board, and contrived to effect the capture, near the island of Thasos, not, however, without opposition, of 140 out of a notorious band of 200 armed pirates, who had become the terror of the Grecian Archipelago. Prize was at the same time made of seven of their vessels. In consequence of the detention of Capt. Copeland at Malta from ill health, Lieut. Hope, in the spring of 1836, was entrusted with the duty of navigating the Beacon to England. On his arrival he was immediately ordered to Greenock to volunteer men for the fleet. After that service had been accomplished he was paid off 4 June, 1836; and on the next day he received instructions to recommission the Beacon. On his removal, as above, to the Inconstant, we find him employed in experimentally cruizing, also in performing Particular Service, and in carrying troops to North America. In Dec. 1838, having attained the rank of Commander on 28 of the previous June, he went on half-pay, on which he continued until appointed, 10 May, 1839, Second Captain of the Revenge 76, Capt. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave. In that ship he was at first stationed off Lisbon, and then sent to the Mediterranean, where he partook of the operations on the coast of Syria, and was present at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre. He was in consequence advanced to Post-rank 4 Nov. 1840; and, since Jan. 1841, when he left the Revenge, has been on half-pay.
Capt. Hope is in the receipt of a pension of 6l. per annum for a very severe injury he sustained in the left hand, attended with the loss of a finger, while endeavouring, in H.M.S. Liverpool, to clear a seaman, who by some accident had been jammed.