A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Morley, Arthur Thomas
MORLEY. (Lieut., 1824. f-p., 26; h-p., 13.)
Arthur Thomas Morley entered the Navy, in May, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Kangaroo 18, Capt. John Baker, under whom he assisted at the capture, 20 Nov. following, of L’Egayant privateer, of 14 guns and 31 men, and continued actively employed in the Channel and off the coasts of Spain and Portugal until Nov. 1810. During the next four years we find him serving as Midshipman, off Cadiz and in various parts of the Mediterranean, in the St. Alban’s 64, and Berwick 74, both commanded by Capt. Edw. Brace. In the former ship he appears to have been in co-operation with the British army at the battle of Barrosa; and, in the Berwick, to have witnessed the fall of Genoa. He then, in Dec. 1814, joined the St. Lawrence 98, Capt. Chas. Fred. Payne, on Lake Ontario, where, after an attachment of a few months to the Prince Regent 56, Capt. Wm. Fitzwilliam Owen, he acted, from March, 1816, until July, 1817, as Master of the Netley 10, Capt. Fras. Brace. In Dec. 1818 he became Master’s Mate of the Leven 24; and in that vessel, successively commanded by Capts. David Ewen Bartholomew and Robt. Baldey, he was for two years and a half employed in surveying the Azores, part of the African coast, and some of the Cape de Verde Islands. He was next, in Aug. 1821, appointed to the Coast Blockade as Admiralty-Midshipman of the Severn 40, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch; from which service, in Dec. 1822, he was removed, in a similar capacity, to the Gloucester 74, bearing the broad pendant in the West Indies of Commodore Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen. He attained his present rank 21 Jan. 1824; and was afterwards employed, from 15 April in the same year until superseded at his own request 8 Nov. 1825, again in the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Ramillies 74, and Hyperion 42, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Wm. Jas. Mingaye, and, from 20 March, 1835, until the close of 1844, in the Coast Guard.