A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Johnstone, Henry Hope
JOHNSTONE. (Lieutenant, 1818. f-p., 10; h-p., 26.)
Henry Hope Johnstone entered the Navy, 24 June, 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Rifleman 18, Capt. Joseph Pearce, and, after serving for some time on the Home station, proceeded to the coast of North America, where he was present with the squadron in Penobscot Bay at the capture of the town of Castine and the destruction of the U.S. frigate John Adams, in Sept. 1814. Becoming Midshipman, soon afterwards, of the Royal Oak 74, flag-ship of Sir Pulteney Malcolm, he attended in that ship the ill-fated expedition against New Orleans; and, on her return to England in the summer of 1815, he became attached, as a Supernumerary, to the Prince 98, Capt. Edm. Boger, lying at Spitbead. In July, 1818, after he had been employed for a period of more than two years and a half in the North Sea and West Indies, in the Pelican 18, Capts. Robt. Lisle Coulson and Edw. Curzon, he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Pique 36, Capt. John Mackellar, to which frigate he was confirmed on 20 of the following Nov. He was paid off 21 Dec. 1818; and was lastly, from 6 Dec. 1824 until about the close of 1826, employed in the Ramillies 74, Coast Blockade ship, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot.
Lieut. Johnstone is married, and has issue.