A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Maitland, William
MAITLAND. (Commander, 1840.)
William Maitland died in Oct. 1846, in command of H.M. steam-sloop Spiteful.
This officer entered the Navy 4 Feb. 1819; passed his examination in 1825; obtained his first commission 13 June, 1827; and was appointed, on the Mediterranean station – 16 March, 1831, to the Barham 50, Capt. Hugh Pigot – 21 March, 1834, to the Britannia 120, Capt. Peter Rainier, which ship was paid off in the early part of 1835 – and, 12 April, 1839, as First-Lieutenant, to the Benbow 72, Capt. Houston Stewart. For his services in the latter ship, at the attack upon Tortosa (where he landed and obtained warm praise for his very gallant conduct[1]) and the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre, he was promoted to the rank of Commander 4 Nov. 1840. On 14 Dec. 1842 he assumed command of the Spiteful steam-sloop, which vessel, in July, 1846, bore the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Thos. John Cochrane during an expedition against the Sultan of Borneo, whose forts and batteries in the river Brune were all destroyed.[2] Agents – Hallett and Robinson.