A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Quin, Francis Beaufort
QUIN. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Francis Beaufort Quin passed his examination 5 Oct. 1841; and served as Mate in the Rodney 92, Capt. Robt. Maunsell, Excellent gunnery-ship, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, Lynx brigantine, Lieut.-Commanders Godolphin Jas. Burslem and John Thos. Nott, Osprey 12, Capt. Fred. Patten, and Royalist brig, Lieut.-Commander Graham Ogle, on the Mediterranean, Home, and East India stations. While in the vessel last-mentioned he accompanied Sir Thos. John Cochrane in an expedition against the Sultan of Borneo in July, 1846; and on 8 of that month was attached to the 6th and 7th companies of small-arm men at the capture and destruction of the enemy’s forts and batteries on the river Brune. Between the 10th and 16th he was employed under Capt. Geo. Rodney Mundy (whose official notice he attracted by the attention he displayed to his duties) in ascending different branches of the stream, and in marching, despite many impediments, into the interior of the country in a fruitless attempt to obtain possession of the Sultan’s person.[1] He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant by commission bearing date 8 June, 1846; and has been since serving, still in the East Indies, as Additional in the Agincourt 72, and Vernon 50, flag-ships of Rear-Admirals Sir T. J. Cochrane and Sam. Hood Inglefield, and as Second-Lieutenant in the Medea steam-sloop, of 350 horse-power, Capt. Thos. Henry Mason. His appointment to the MedeaNov. 1847.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1846, pp. 3442, 3446.