A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hutchison, George
HUTCHISON. (Commander, 1821. f-p., 22; h-p., 29.)
George Hutchison entered the Navy, 1 March, 1796, as Midshipman, on board a small vessel lying at Sheerness under the command of Lieut. Thos. Hutchison; removed for a short period in 1798 to the Nassau 64, Capts. Wm. Hargood and Geo. Tripp, stationed at the Nore; and during the four following years was employed in the Baltic, North Sea, and Mediterranean, under Admiral John Peyton and Capt. John Larmour, with the latter of whom, in the Diadem 64, we find him attending the expedition of 1801 to Egypt. From June, 1802, until the same month in 1806, he served with Sir Rich. John Strachan in the Donegal and Renown 74’s, and Caesar 80; and he was thus afforded an opportunity of assisting at the Donegal’s capture, in 1804, of the Spanish 44-gun frigate Amfitrite, and of a ship with a cargo on board worth 200,000l., and of contributing in the Caesar to the capture, 4 Nov. 1805, of the four line-of-battle ships which had effected their escape from the battle of Trafalgar. He was confirmed a Lieutenant (after having acted for nearly five months as such) in the Bellona 74, Capt. John Erskine Douglas, 11 Nov. 1806, and was afterwards appointed – 12 Jan. 1807, to the Triumph 74, Capt. Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy, in the Chesapeake, whence he returned in March, 1808 – 30 March, 1809, to the Defiance 74, Capts. Hon. Henry Hotham and Rich. Raggett, employed on the coasts of Spain and France, and in the North Sea – 19 Oct. 1811, to the St. Domingo 74, flag-ship on the latter and on the North American stations of Sir J. Strachan and Sir John Borlase Warren – 31 Aug. 1814, to the Briseis 10, Capt. Wm. Rush Jackson, which vessel he left in May, 1815 – and, 10 April, 1818, and 18 May, 1821, to the Vengeur and Genoa 74’s, Capts. Thos. Alexander and Fred. Lewis Maitland, on the Home and South American stations. He assisted, while in the Bellona, at the destruction, 14 Sept. 1806, off Cape Henry, of the French 74-gun ship L’Impêtueux; co-operated, in the Defiance, with the patriots on the north coast of Spain, and partially commanded her boats at the cutting-out of three chasse-marées laden with wine and rosin from under two batteries at Belleisle, and the fire of some field-pieces and armed vessels, in 1810;[1] and commanded for some time the Dolphin and Highflyer, tenders[2] to the St. Domingo, on the coast of America, where he was taken prisoner 30 March, 1814. He attained his present rank 9 Nov. 1821, and has since been on half-pay.