A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Short, Samuel Frederick
SHORT. (Lieutenant, 1840.)
Samuel Frederick Short entered the Navy 14 March, 1823; passed his examination in 1830; and for his services on the coast of Syria, including the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 5 Nov. 1840. His appointments have since been – 15 Dec. 1840, to the Cyclops steamer, Capt. Horatio Thos. Austin, in the Mediterranean – 8 April, 1843, as Additional, to the Queen 110, flag-ship of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, on the same station – 11 Dec. following, to the Locust steamer, Lieut.-Commander John Lunn, also in the Mediterranean – 23 April, 1844, again to the Queen, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Rowley at Portsmouth – and, 26 Aug. 1844, to the command, which he still retains, of a station in the Coast Guard.
Lieut. Short married, 8 Dec. 1846, Anne, eldest daughter of Lieut. John R. Benson, R.N.