A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Mottley, William
MOTTLEY. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
William Mottley died 13 July, 1845, as related beneath, aged 27. He was son of Geo. Henry Mottley, Esq., of Portsmouth, the talented editor of the ‘Hampshire Telegraph.’
This officer entered the Navy 14 April, 1830; passed his examination 5 July, 1837; and at the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 30 Aug. 1841, was serving as Mate of the Wasp 16, Capt. Hon. Henry Anthony Murray, in which sloop he had assisted, under Capt. Geo. Mansel, at the capture of St. Jean d’Acre. His succeeding appointments were – 2 Sept. 1841, again to the Wasp – 21 June, 1842 (soon after his return from the Mediterranean), to the Thunder surveying-vessel, Capt. Edw. Barnett, on the North America and West India station – 10 Jan. 1844, to the Penelope steam-frigate, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Wm. Jones on the coast of Africa – and, 27 Sept. 1844, a third time, to the Wasp, then commanded by Capt. Sidney Henry Ussher. He died of fever at Ascension, as above, on board the Penelope, while on his passage to rejoin the Wasp, after having taken to Sierra Leone a slave-brig captured by her. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.