A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Jones, Valentine Herbert
JONES. (Lieut., 1821. f-p., 27; h-p., 13.)
Valentine Herbert Jones entered the Navy, 19 May, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Hussar 38, Capt. Robt. Lloyd, under whom he assisted at the bombardment of Copenhagen, and further served, as Midshipman, in the Guerrière 38, and Swiftsure 74, flag-ship of Sir John Borlase Warren, on the West India and North American stations, until April, 1811. He then removed to the Edinburgh 74, Capts. Robt. Rolles and Hon. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dundas, and, after a cruize among the Western Islands, proceeded to the Mediterranean, where, in 1813-14, he successively witnessed the capture of Port d’Anzo, the unsuccessful attack upon Leghorn, the reduction of the fortress of Santa Maria, and of the enemy’s other forts and defences in the Gulf of Spezia, and the fall of Genoa. In the course of 1814 he joined the Apollo 38, Capt. Edwards Lloyd Graham, and Conflict 12, Capt. Abraham Mills Hawkins, respectively employed in the Mediterranean and Channel; and he next, between Sept. 1815, and the receipt of his commission, bearing date 19 July, 1821, served, as Admiralty-Midshipman, on the Cape of Good Hope and Newfoundland stations, in the Orontes 36, Capt. Nathaniel Day Cochrane, Sir Francis Drake, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Fras. Pickmore, Egeria 26, Capt. Henry Shiffner, Favorite 26, Capt. Hercules Robinson, and Sir Francis Drake again, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Hamilton. His subsequent appointments were – 27 July, 1831, to the Coast Guard – 12 Oct. 1836, and 17 March, 1838, to the command of the Rose and Sprightly Revenue-vessels – 18 May, 1839, a second time to the charge of a station in the Coast Guard – 6 July, 1840, to the office of Agent in a contract mail steam-vessel – and, 24 June, 1842, once more to the Coast Guard. He has been on half-pay since 1843.