A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Nicholson, Frederick Falkiner
NICHOLSON. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
Frederick Falkiner Nicholson passed his examination 29 March, 1843; served as Mate on board the Volage 26, Capt. Sir Wm. Dickson, and Dolphin brigantine, Lieut.-Commander Reginald Thos. John Levinge; and for his conduct in the action of the Parana, detailed in our memoir of the latter officer, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 18 Nov. 1845. His appointments have since been – 26 June, 1846, to the Vernon 50, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sam. Hood Inglefield on the southeast coast of America – and, 4 Nov. 1846, to the Comus 18, Capt. Edwin Clayton Tennyson D’Eyncourt, on the same station, where he is still employed.