A Naval Biographical Dictionary/McNeale, Malcolm
M‘NEALE. (Lieutenant, 1825.)
Malcolm M‘Neale entered the Navy 1 April, 1814; passed his examination in 1821; and in the following year, while Mate of the Cyrené 20, Capt. Percy Grace, assisted in the boats of that vessel in an attack on a slave-factory on the coast of Africa. He obtained his commission 4 Oct. 1825, and was subsequently appointed – 5 Oct. 1832, as Additional-Lieutenant, to the Isis 50, Capt. Jas. Polkinghorne, at the Cape of Good Hope – 27 June, 1833, to the Curlew 10, Capt. Henry Dundas Trotter, on the same station – and, after he had been a few months on half-pay, 22 Dec. 1834 and 1 Sept. 1835, to the Victory 104, and Britannia 120, flag-ships of Sir Thos. Williams at Portsmouth, where he remained until 1836. Agent – John P. Muspratt.