A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Quinlan, William St. Louis
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QUINLAN. (Lieutenant, 1843.)
William St. Louis Quinlan entered the Navy 21 Jan. 1829; passed his examination 10 June, 1835; and while serving as Mate, in 1842, in the Charybdis brigantine, Lieut.-Commander Jas. Archibald Macdonald, appears to have “upheld the British flag against a superior force” at the blockade of San Juan de Nicaragua, He obtained his commission 3 Feb. 1843; became, 13 Sept. following, Additional-Lieutenant of the Dublin 50, flag-ship in the Pacific of Rear-Admiral Rich. Thomas; and, from 19 Dec. 1844 until paid off at the close of 1847, was employed on the same station in the Cormorant steam-sloop, of 300-horse-power, Capts. Geo. Thos. Gordon and Fred. Beauchamp Paget Seymour.