A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lodwick, John
LODWICK. (Commander, 1845.)
John Lodwick died in the summer of 1845. This officer passed his examination in 1831; obtained his first commission 19 Jan. 1837; and was appointed – 20 Jan. 1837, to the Phoenix steam-vessel, Capts. Wm. Honyman Henderson and Anthony Wm. Milward, with whom he was employed on particular service until paid off at the close of 1838 – 22 May, 1839, as Senior Lieutenant, to the Dee steamer, Capt. Joseph Sherer, attached to the force in North America and the West Indies – 7 March, 1841, to the Winchester 50, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Harvey on the same station – and, 19 March, 1842, again as First, to the Growler steam-sloop, Capt. Claude Henry Mason Buckle, on the coast of Africa, where he remained until promoted to the rank of Commander 1 May, 1845.