A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hutchison, William (a)
HUTCHISON. (Lieut.,1813. f-p., 21; h-p., 26.)
William Hutchison entered the Navy, 3 May, 1800, as Sec.-cl. Boy, on board the Windsor Castle 98, Capts. Albemarle Bertie and Jas. Oughton, in which ship, bearing for some time the flag of Sir Andrew Mitchell, he continued to serve as Midshipman, on the Channel and Irish stations, until April, 1804. From June, 1805, until taken prisoner in Jan. 1808, he performed the duties of Master’s Mate in the Mediterranean and Channel on board the Rose 18; and on regaining his liberty in March, 1811, he joined the Norge 74, Capts. John Sprat Rainier and Wm. Waller. Being promoted from the St. Domingo 74, bearing the flag of Sir John Borlase Warren, to a Lieutenancy, 28 May, 1813, in the Mohawk 16, Capts. Hon. Henry Dilkes Byng and Henry Litchfield, he appears to have been much employed in that vessel up the rivers and along the shores of North America, and to have commanded a boat at the capture of the United States schooner Asp, mounting 1 long 18-pounder gun, and 2 18-pounder carronades, with swivels, &c., and having 25 men, which vessel, although she had been hauled close to the beach under the protection of a large body of militia, was boarded and carried with cool and determined bravery, the British sustaining a loss of 2 men killed and 6 wounded, and the enemy of their Commander (a Lieutenant) killed and several men drowned.[1] Mr. Hutchison, who invalided home in Dec. 1813, was lastly employed – from 5 Sept. 1822 until Sept. 1826, in the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary Lieutenant of the Severn and Ramillies, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot – and, from 24 July, 1829, until the early part of 1834, in the Coast Guard.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1813, p. 1767.