A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Noad, Arthur Mayne
NOAD. (Lieutenant, 1838. f-p., 16; h-p., 8.)
Arthur Mayne Noad entered the Navy, 19 Dec. 1823, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Tweed 28, Capts. Fred. Hunn and Lord Hen. John Spencer Churchill; in which ship he was for upwards of seven years employed, the greater part of the time as Midshipman, on the South American, Irish, North America and West India, and Cape of Good Hope stations. In April, 1831, having passed his examination in July, 1830, he was appointed Mate of the Rattlesnake 28, Capt. Chas. Graham, fitting for the Pacific, whence he returned in Nov. 1S33. He next, in May, 1834, joined the Childers 18, Capt. Hon. Henry Keppel, with whom he served on the Mediterranean and African stations (nearly four months of the period, as Acting-Lieutenant) until May, 1838. On 28 of the following June he was officially advanced to the rank he at present holds. His last appointments were – 7 May, 1839, to the Seringapatam 42, Capts. John Leith and Wm. Ward Percival Johnson, which ship was paid off on her return from the North America and West India station in Nov. 1841 – and 22 Feb. 1842, to the Isis 44, Capt. Sir John Marshall, at the Cape of Good Hope. On 19 July in the latter year, while engaged in hoisting out the launch at Port Natal, preparatory to the embarkation of the 25th Regiment, Lieut. Noad sustained a dreadful accident in consequence of the hook of the boat’s purchase giving way. He suffered a dislocation of the right hip, had both bones of his leg fractured, and received such severe contusions of the right shoulder and arm that mortification was apprehended. After being buffeted in this lamentable condition at sea for 12 days in very hard weather, he was put on shore and sent to the hospital at Simon’s Bay. In the following Dec. he invalided; and on 2 Oct. 1843 he was awarded a pension. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.