A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Littlehales, Edward
LITTLEHALES. (Commander, 1841.)
Edward Littlehales is second son of the late Vice-Admiral Littlehales.
This officer entered the Navy, 3 Dec. 1818; served for some time in the Mediterranean as Midshipman of the Revenge 76, flag-ship of Sir Harry Burrard Neale; passed his examination in 1825; and was made Lieutenant, 11 March, 1828, into the Success 28, Capts. Jas. Stirling and Wm. Clarke Jervoise. In Nov. 1829 the latter ship was all but lost on a reef, while making for Cockburn Sound, in Western Australia; on which occasion Mr. Littlehales’ exemplary conduct was of so signal a nature that he not only received the warmest thanks of Capt. Jervoise, but was permitted by the Lords of the Admiralty to succeed the present Captain Edmund Yonge, whose own conduct on the occasion procured him promotion, in the post of First-Lieutenant, and to retain it until paid off 16 Dec. 1831. His subsequent appointments were – 8 April, 1834, as Senior, to the Hastings 74, Capt. Henry Shiffner, bearing the flag afterwards of Sir Wm. Hall Gage on the Lisbon station, whence he returned at the close of 1837 – and, 2 March, 1840, to the command of the Dolphin brigantine on the coast of Africa. He attained the rank he now holds 23 Nov. 1841; and since Jan. 1842 has been on half-pay. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.