A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Price, John Adolphus Pope
PRICE. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
John Adolphus Pope Price entered the Navy 24 Dec. 1830; passed his examination 6 May, 1835; and at the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 18 Oct. 1842, had been serving as Mate in the Mediterranean on board the Thunderer 84, Capt. Daniel Pring. His next appointment was, 13 March, 1843, to the Hecla steam-sloop of 240 horse-power, Capts. John Duffill and Chas. Starmer, under whom he was again employed in the Mediterranean until nominated, 1 July, 1847, Flag-Lieutenant in the Ceylon to Sir Lucius Curtis, Admiral-Superintendent at Malta.