A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Saunders, William Clewes
SAUNDERS. (Lieut., 1822. f-p., 22; h-p., 15.)
William Clewes Saunders entered the Navy 3 Aug. 1810, as Third-cl. Boy, on board the Pheasant 18, Capt. John Palmer, under whom he was for upwards of four years employed, part of the time as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the Channel and at Newfoundland. Between Oct. 1814 and Oct. 1818 he served on the Home and again on the Newfoundland stations in the Wanderer 20, Capts. J. Palmer and Wm. Dowers, San Josef 110, flag-ship of Sir Rich. Strachan, and Tiber 38, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres. He then proceeded, as Admiralty- Midshipman of the Sapphire 26, Capt. Henry Hart, to the West Indies; where he acted, from 9 June until 16 Dec. 1820, as Lieutenant in the Ontario 18, Capts. Whitworth Lloyd, Wilson Braddyll Bigland, and Jodrell Leigh, and was again for 14 months employed as Admiralty-Midshipman in the Euryalus 42, Capts. Thos. Huskisson, Isham Fleming-Chapman, and W. B. Bigland, and Tamar 26, Capt. Sir Wm. Saltonstall Wiseman. He was confirmed a Lieutenant, 6 May, 1822, in the Sybille 44, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Rowley at Jamaica; and was next, 11 April, 1823, appointed to the Phaeton 46, Capt. Henry Evelyn Pitfield Sturt, under whom, prior to being paid off in 1826, we find him conveying the Right Hon. C. R. Vaughan, British Ambassador, to North America, and bringing three millions of dollars home from the West Indies. He has filled the appointment, since 29 Oct. 1840, of an Agent for Transports afloat.