A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Jameson, Walter
JAMESON. (Retired Commander, 1837. f-p., 18; h-p., 51.)
Walter Jameson entered the Navy, 25 Nov. 1778, as L.M., on board the Janus, Capts. Bonivier Glover, ___ Dixon, and Horatio Nelson, on the West India station, where, and in North America and the Channel, he continued to serve, chiefly as Midshipman, in the Niger frigate, Capt. John Brown, and again in the Janus, Capts. W. H. O’Hara and Robt. M‘Evoy, until Sept. 1783. On the renewal ot hostilities in 1793, after having been for nearly 10 years employed in the merchant-service, he joined the Illustrious 74, Capt. Thos. Lennox Frederick, attached to the force in the Mediterranean. In the course of 1795 he there removed in succession to the Windsor Castle 98, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Robt. Linzee, and Blenheim 98, commanded by his former Captain, Frederick; and in the early part of 1796 he was appointed by Sir John Jervis, in whose flag-ship, the Victory, he had been for a short time serving, to a Lieutenancy in a sloop under the orders at the time of Capt. Robt. Sauce. His official promotion took place on 28 July in the same year; after which period he was employed, we find, from March, 1797, to Dec. 1798, in the Naiad and Melpomène 38’s, Capts. Wm. Pierrepont and Sir Chas. Hamilton – from Nov. 1799 until July, 1800, in the Thames 32, Capt. Wm. Lukin – from Aug. 1800 until 1800, in command of a Signal station on Black Castle Hill, Lammermuir, N.B. – and, from July, 1804, until 1808, in the Sea Fencible service in Scotland. While in command of the boats of the Thames, and in the act of boarding two of the enemy’s vessels in Quiberon Bay, Lieut. Jameson received a musket-ball in the shoulder, which, although his back has been cut open in the attempt, has never been extracted. He became a Retired Commander on the Senior List 27 Oct. 1837.