A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Slight, Julian Foulston
SLIGHT. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
Julian Foulston Slight entered the Navy 2 July, 1829; passed his examination 8 Feb. 1836; and on the paying off of the Implacable 74, Capt. Edw. Harvey, in which ship he had been serving in the Mediterranean, was promoted, 7 Feb. 1842, to the rank he now holds. His appointments have since been – 10 March, 1842, to the Resistance troop-ship, Capt. Chas. Geo. Edw. Patey – 28 July following, to the Daphne 18, Capt. John Jas. Onslow, of which vessel, stationed in the Pacific, he became First-Lieutenant – and 5 May, 1847 [errata 1], in the latter capacity (shortly after the Daphne had been put out of commission) to the Dragon steam-frigate of 560 horse-power, Capt. Wm. Hutcheon Hall, under whom he is now employed on particular service.