A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Smyth, Thomas Johnson
SMYTH. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
Thomas Johnson Smyth died in 1846.
This officer entered the Navy 21 Nov. 1829; passed his examination 30 Nov. 1836; and after serving in the Mediterranean and at Plymouth as Mate in the Tyne 26, Capt. John Townshend, and Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir David Milne, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 27 July, 1842. His succeeding appointments were – 2 Aug. 1842, as Additional, to the Madagascar 44, Capt. John Foote, on the coast of Africa – 21 Jan. 1843, to the Ferret 6, Capt. Josiah Oake, on the same station – and, 8 Nov. 1845, to the Juno 26, Capt. Patrick John Blake, fitting for the Pacific, where he died.