A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Miller, William Stewart
MILLER. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
William Stewart Miller entered the Navy 16 May, 1831; passed his examination 2 Aug. 1837; and was for some time Mate of the Cruizer and Columbine sloops, Capts. Henry Wells Giffard and Thos. Jordaine Clarke. In the former vessel he took part in the capture of Aden in 1839; and in the Columbine (of which, for his China services, he was created a Lieutenant 8 Oct. 1841 [1]) he assisted at the first and second capture of Canton,[2] the reduction of Amoy and Chinghae, the destruction of the Chinese fire-rafts, and the attacks on Tsekee,[3] Woosung, and Shanghae. When next in the Childers 16, Capt. Geo. Greville Wellesley, we find him participating in the operations of 1842 in the Yangtse-Kiang. He returned to England in that vessel in the summer of 1844, and was subsequently appointed – 31 May, 1845, to the Vernon 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Sam. Hood Inglefield, on the southeast coast of America – and, 31 July, 1846, to the command, on the same station, of the Dolphin brigantine of 3 guns, which he brought home and put out of commission in 1847. Agent – J. Hinxman.