A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Place, Lionel Read
PLACE. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
Lionel Read Place entered the Navy 31 Oct. 1829; passed his examination 5 July, 1836; served in the East Indies as Mate in the Melville 72, Capt. Hon. Rich. Saunders Dundas; and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 29 March, 1842, in honour of a visit paid by her Majesty to the Queen 110, on the eve of the departure of that ship for the Mediterranean, with the flag of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen. His appointments have since been – 5 April, 1842, again to the Queen, in which ship he returned to England under the command of Sir Chas. Sullivan, and was paid off in 1844 – 4 Dec. 1846, to the Amphion steam-frigate, of 300-horse power, Capt. Woodford John Williams, fitting at Devonport – and, 8 Feb. 1847, to the President 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres at the Cape of Good Hope, where he is now serving.