A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lett, Stephen Joshua
LETT. (Lieutenant, 1826.)
Stephen Joshua Lett was born 2 Nov. 1801, at Enniscorthy, co. Wexford.
This officer entered the Navy 15 July, 1815; passed his examination in 1821.; and,. as a reward for his meritorious services as Mate of the Arachne 18, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads, during the war in Ava, was made Lieutenant, 26 Dec. 1826, into the Larne sloop, Capt. Wm. Burdett Dobson, with whom he returned home and was paid off in April, 1827. He has been in charge, since 3 April, 1837, of a station in the Coast Guard.