A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Richardson, Samuel
RICHARDSON. (Lieutenant, 1828. f-p., 17; h-p., 18.)
Samuel Richardson entered the Navy, 10 Jan. 1812, on board the Bacchante 38, in which ship, commanded by the late Sir Wm. Hoste, he continued employed in the Adriatic and on the coast of North America until June, 1815. During that period he had the good fortune to participate in a variety of brilliant boat affairs, and assist at the capture of several of the enemy’s towns and forts. His exertions on a particular occasion, when four out of six prizes were lost in a gale of wind, in saving one of which he himself had charge, procured him the rating of Midshipman. After he left the Bacchante he served – from May, 1816, to Dec. 1818 (in the course of which month he passed his examination), in the Queen Charlotte 100, flagship of Sir Edw. Thornbrough at Portsmouth – from the latter date until March, 1824, in the Rochfort 80, bearing the flags of Sir Thos. Fras. Fremantle and Sir Graham Moore in the Mediterranean – next, in the Albion 74, Capt. Sir Wm. Hoste, guard-ship at Portsmouth – and, from the spring of 1825 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 25 July, 1828, in the Maidstone 42 and Sybille 48, bearing the broad pendants of Sir Chas. Bullen and Sir Fras. Augustus Collier on the coast of Africa. His last appointment was, about Nov. 1829, to the Wellesley 74, Capt. Sam. Campbell Rowley, employed on particular service. He was placed on half-pay in 1831. During his career afloat he was five times sent into port in charge of captured vessels, many of them slavers.
RICHARDSON. (Lieutenant, 1822.)
Samuel Richardson was present in the boats of the Bacchante in the affairs (detailed in our memoir of Capt. Hon. Henry John Rous) at Otranto, Karlebago, Gela Nova, Rovigno, Lesina, and Ragusa. He was also at the capture of Fiumé.