A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lewis, Frederick
LEWIS. (Retired Commander, 1839. f-p., 19; h-p., 30.)
Frederick Lewis entered the Navy, 28 July, 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol,, on board the Discovery bomb, Capt. John Dick, lying at Sheerness; and on removing, in the following Dec, to the Champion 24, Capt. Graham Eden Hamond, was for some time most actively employed in the North Sea, where he assisted at the capture, 28 June, 1799, of L’Anacréon, a notorious French privateer, of 16 guns and 12.5 men. In Dec. of the latter year he became Midshipman of the Pompée 74, Capt. Chas. Stirling, under whom he was afforded an opportunity of sharing in the action off Algeciras 6 July, 1801. He was next, for several months of 1802, stationed in the West Indies on board the Magnificent 74, Capt. John Giffard; after which we find him, in 1803, proceeding to the East Indies in the Russell 74, Capt. Robt. Williams, and on 9 March, 1805, promoted, from the Trident 64, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Peter Rainier, to an Acting-Lieutenancy in the Wilhelmina frigate, Capts. Hon. Alex. Cochrane and Chas. Foote. From that vessel, to which he had been confirmed 29 Jan. 1806, he followed Capt. Foote, in May, 1808, into the Piémontaise 38. He invalided from India in Dec. 1809; and was subsequently appointed – 27 April, 1811, and 3 Feb. 1812, to the Hannibal 74, and Christian VII. 80, flag-ships in the Baltic and North Sea of Rear-Admiral Philip Chas. Durham – 17 April, 1813, to the Ulysses 44, Capt. Thos. Browne, under whom he escorted the army under Sir Thos. Graham to the Scheldt and a convoy to Jamaica – 8 Oct. 1814, to the Sybille 44, Capt. Thos. Forrest, employed among the Western Islands – in June, 1815, to the direction of the Telegraph at the Admiralty – and, in May, 1816, to the command of the Hound Revenue-vessel, in which he remained until superseded in May, 1819. He accepted his present rank 4 April, 1839.
The Commander is married, and has issue.