A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Phillips, Frederick
PHILLIPS. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 33; h-p. 9.)
Frederick Phillips entered the Navy, 28 Aug. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Bellona 74, Capts. Chas. Dudley Paler and John Erskine Douglas; under the latter of whom we find him present, as Midshipman, at the destruction of the French 74-gun ship Impétueux, off Cape Henry, 14 Sept. 1806, also in the attack upon the enemy’s fleet in Basque Roads and in the expedition to the Walcheren in 1809, and at the capture, 18 Dec. 1810, of Le Héros du Nord privateer of 14 guns and 44 men. On 22 June, 1807, he chanced to be, as a Supernumerary, on board the Leopard 50, Capt. Salusbury Pryce Humphreys, when that ship compelled the U.S. frigate Chesapeake to surrender, in consequence of a refusal on the part of the latter to allow the British to search her for deserters. Following Capt. Douglas from the Bellona, in May, 1812, into the Prince of Wales 98, he sailed with him soon afterwards for the Mediterranean, where, in April, 1814, he beheld the fall of Genoa. On his return to England in April, 1815, from the West Indies, whither he had gone with convoy in the Swiftsure 74, Capt. Wm. Henry Webley Parry, Mr. Phillips found that he had been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 7 Feb. preceding. From May, 1824, until March, 1831, he served in the Coast Blockade as a Supernumerary of the Ramillies 74 and Hyperion 42, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Wm. Jas. Mingaye. He has been since serving in the Coast Guard.