A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Smith, Henry Thomas
SMITH. (Lieutenant, 1841. f-p., 18; h-p., 5.)
Henry Thomas Smith was born 7 March, 1810, at Greenwich, co. Kent. He is brother of Lieut. A. J. Smith, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 21 March, 1824, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Victory 104, Capt. Chas. Inglis, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Martin at Portsmouth. From Sept. 1825 until Jan. 1829, he served as Midshipman in the Galatea 42, Capt. Sir Chas. Sullivan, on the Channel, West India, Lisbon, and South American stations, and also in the Mediterranean; where, from March, 1829, until April, 1832, he was employed, the last two years as Mate, in the Melville 74 and Raleigh 18, Capts. Alex. Wilmot Schomberg and Abraham Mills Hawkins. He then joined the Donegal 78, Capts. John Dick and Arthur Fanshawe, in the Channel; and next – in Nov. 1832, the Rhadamanthus steamer, Capt. Geo. Evans, employed off Lisbon and on the coast of Holland – in March, 183-3, for about two months, the San Josef 110, flag-ship of Sir Manley Dixon at Plymouth – in April, 1834, the Hastings 74, Capt. Henry Shiffnher, on the Lisbon station, where he remained until Jan. 1836 – in July, 1836, and June, 1839, the Firefly and Kite steamers, Lieut.-Commanders Joseph Pearse and Geo. Snell, in the Mediterranean and West Indies – in the course of 1840, the Pluto steamer, Lieut.-Commander John Lunn, and Winchester 60, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Harvey, both on the coast of North America – and, in Feb. 1841 (five months after he had left the Winchester), the Mastiff surveying-vessel, Master-Commander Geo. Thomas, stationed among the Orkney Islands. He attained his present rank (eleven years and a half after he had passed his examination) 23 Nov. 1841; was appointed, 15 Dec. following, Additional-Lieutenant of the Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir Graham Moore at Plymouth; and, from 5 Jan. 1842 until he invalided in June, 1843, was employed in the Ferret brig, Capt. Josiah Oake, on the coast of Africa. He has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Smith married, 22 Feb. 1844, Jane Hardy, of Thorngumbald, Holderness, co. York.