A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hutton, Frederick
HUTTON. (Captain, 1844. f-p., 29; h-p., 5.)
Frederick Hutton, born in 1801, is son of the Rev. Jas. Harriman Hutton, Vicar of Leckford, co. Hants.
This officer entered the Navy, 28 Jan. 1813, on board the Salsette 36, Capt. John Bowen, employed in the East Indies; served from 1816 until 1818 on the Home station in the Eridanus 36, Capt. Wm. King, and Rochfort 80, Capt. Sir Archibald Collingwood Dickson; then sailed for South America in the Créole 42, Capt. Wm. Bateman Dashwood, for the purpose of hoisting the broad pendant of Commodore Wm. Bowles; became Mate, in 1821, of the Starling 10, Lieut.-Commander John Keeve, on the Guernsey station; and was next employed for a considerable time in the South Seas and East Indies on board the Tees 26, Capt. Thos. Coe, and Liffey 50, bearing the broad pendant of the same officer. After acting for some months as Lieutenant in the Sophie 18, Capt. Geo. Fred. Ryves, he went back to the Tees, to which vessel, commanded at the time by Capt. Fred. Marryat, he was confirmed by commission dated 17 May, 1825. He was shortly afterwards, while at Rangoon during the Burmese war, placed in command of the armed transport Satellite, and stationed at Panlang on the river Irawady. His succeeding appointments were – 19 Aug. 1826, to the Despatch 18, Capt. Robt. White Parsons, with whom he chiefly served as First-Lieutenant on the African, Irish, and Lisbon stations, until paid off in 1829 – in the early part of 1831, to the command of the Meteor steamer, for the purpose of escorting the Duchess and Princess of Saxe-Weimar to the Continent – 20 July, 1831, to the Magicienne 24, Capt. Jas. Hanway Plumridge, again in the East Indies – and, 13 April, 1835, as Senior, to the Barham 50, Capt. Armar Lowry Corry. In the capacity of Commander, a rank he attained 28 June, 1838, Capt. Hutton was, from 10 Dec. 1838, until finally put out of commission in Aug. 1843, re-employed in the Mediterranean and Tagus on board the Vanguard 80, Capts. Sir Thos. Fellowes and Sir David Dunn, under the latter of whom we find him assisting at the blockade of Alexandria during the Syrian campaign. He attained his present rank 3 July, 1844; and since 12 Nov. 1846, has been employed as Governor of the Ascension and Captain of the Tortoise store-ship.
Capt. Hutton was presented by the Queen of Portugal with the Order of the Tower and Sword, for his exertions, with a party of the Vanguard’s people, on the occasion of a fire whilh broke out at Lisbon in 1843, and destroyed the Military Schools. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.