A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Phipps, William
PHIPPS. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 10; h-p., 34.)
William Phipps entered the Navy, 21 June, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the San Josef 110, Capts. John Tremayne Rodd and Tristram Robt. Ricketts, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Cotton in the Channel. In March, 1806, he rejoined Capt. Rodd, as Midshipman (a rating he had attained in Aug. 1804) on board the Indefatigable 44; in which ship, commanded subsequently by Capts. Henry Edw. Reginald Baker and John Broughton, he continued for four years employed in the Bay of Biscay and on the north coast of Spain. On 11 Sept. 1810, at which period he was again serving under Sir Chas. Cotton in the San Josef on the Mediterranean station, he was made Lieutenant into the Aetna bomb, Capt. John Fordyce Maples, lying in Cadiz Bay. His name was next, from 9 Nov. 1813 until 2 Feb. 1814, borne on the books of the Brevdrageren 12. He has since been on half-pay. He had been superseded from the Aetna in Dec. 1812. Agents – Messrs. Chard.