A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Slade, Henry
SLADE. (Commander, 1825. f-p., 17; h-p., 30.)
Henry Slade is nephew of the late Capt. Jas. Slade, R.N.; and cousin of Lieut. Edgar Slade, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 March, 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol, on board the Spanker, lying at Sheerness, where he remained until April, 1802. He next, in May, 1803, joined the Princess Augusta yacht; and in Aug. of the same year the Fisguard 42, Capts. Lord Mark Robt. Kerr and Wm. Bolton. In the boats of the latter ship he took part, as Midshipman, in an attack made in 1805 on a Greek pirate off the Cape de Gata. After serving for rather more than three years off Rochefort and Lisbon, and again in the Mediterranean, part of the time as Master’s Mate, in the Kent 74 and Canopus 80, flag-ships of Admirals Edw. Thornbrough and Geo. Martin, he was made Lieutenant, 12 Nov. 1808, into the Philomel sloop, Capts. Geo. Crawley, Geo. Downie, and Geo. Davies. Continuing in that vessel until May, 1810, he commanded her boats at the storming of the fort of Reggio, at the taking of Zante, Cephalonia, and Ithaca, and at the capture and destruction, on the nignt of 31 Oct. 1809, by the boats of a squadron under Lieut. John Tailour, after a fearful struggle and a loss to the British of 15 men killed and 55 wounded, of the French store-ship Lamproie of 16 guns and 116 men, bombards Victoire and Grondeur, and armed xebec Normamde, with a convoy of seven merchant-vessels, defended by numerous strong batteries in the Bay of Rosas. Between May, 1810, and May, 1815, he was employed on the Home, West India, and North American stations, in the Armide 38, Capts. Ferdinand Lucius Hardyman and Rich. Bailing Dunn, Tremendous 74, Capt. Robt. Campbell, Aquilon 32, Capts. Hon. Wm. Pakenham and Wm. Bowles, Asia 74, Capt. Geo. Scott, and Bulwark 74, Capts. David Milne and Farmery Predam Epworth. While in the ship last mentioned he accompanied an expedition under Capt. Robt. Barrie up the Penobscot, where he commanded a party of seamen on shore at the capture of the towns of Hamden and Bangor, 3 Sept. 1814.[1] He was afterwards, from Dec. 1820 until paid off, 5 Feb. 1824, employed on particular service in the Seringapatam 46, Capt. Sam. Warren; and on 27 May, 1825, he was advanced to the rank of Commander. He has since been on half-pay.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1814, p. 2027.