A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Jenkins, Henry
JENKINS. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 15; h-p., 28.)
Henry Jenkins entered the Navy, 10 May, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Windsor Castle 98, Capts. Davidge Gould and Chas. Boyles; under the latter of whom he participated in Sir Robt. Calder’s action 22 July, 1805, witnessed the surrender of four French frigates to a squadron under Sir Sam. Hood off Rochefort 25 Sept. 1806, and passed the Dardanells in Feb. 1807. Removing in Sept. 1808 to the Pallas 32, Capt. Geo. Fras. Seymour, he was present, in the course of the following year, at the destruction of the French shipping in Basque Roads, and also at the bombardment of Flushing; after which, it appears, he served for about 12 months with the same Captain in the Manilla frigate, on the Lisbon and African stations. Being made Lieutenant, 27 Sept. 1810, into the Impétueux 74, Capts. John Lawford, David Milne, and Chas. Inglis, he further served in that ship off the coasts of Portugal and Africa, as also in the Baltic and Channel, part of the time under the flag of the present Sir Geo. Martin, until Dec. 1812. His subsequent appointments were – 12 Nov. 1813, to the Myrmidon 20, Capts. Wm. Paterson and Robt. Gambier, with whom he cruized in the Channel and off Madeira and Teneriffe until Oct. 1815 – 26 Aug. 1818 and 29 March, 1820, to the Rochfort 80, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. Fras. Fremantle, and Liffey 50, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan, both on the Mediterranean station, whence he returned in the latter ship to England in the summer of 1821 – 27 Feb. 1827, to the Dartmouth 42, Capt. Sir Thos. Fellowes, from which frigate he invalided in the following May – 17 Sept. 1842, to the San Josef 110, flag-ship of Sir David Milne at Plymouth – and, 22 May, 1845, as Senior, to the Caledonia 120, Capt. Manley Dixon, lying at the same port. He has been on half-pay since the close of the latter year.