A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lockyer, William Nicholas Love
LOCKYER. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
William Nicholas Love Lockyer entered the Navy in 1832; passed his examination 2 Nov. 1838; and after having been for some time attached, as Mate, to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, was employed in that capacity in the Aigle 24, Capt. Lord Clarence Edw. Paget, on the Mediterranean station, from the close of 1841 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 1 Sept. 1845. His appointments have since been – on 15 of the latter month, as Additional, to the Penelope steam-frigate, bearing the broad pendant on the coast of Africa of Commodore Wm. Jones – 26 Doc. 1845, to the Albion 90, Capt. Nicholas Lockyer, part of the Channel squadron – and 6 May, 1847, again to the Excellent, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads, under whom he is at present serving.