A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stark, Peter
STARK. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 21; h-p., 20.)
Peter Stark is nephew of Capt. John Aitkin Blow, R.N. His father was a Captain in the Army.
This officer entered the Navy, in July, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ajax 74, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood, and, on the destruction of that ship by fire off the island of Tenedos 14 Feb. 1807, was received on board the Endymion 40, Capt. Hon. Thos. Bladen Capel, with whom he was in consequence present at the passage of the Dardanells. He had the misfortune, 27 Sept. 1807, to be taken prisoner – but, escaping in Dec. 1810, he was again, in the ensuing April, placed under the orders of Capt. Blackwood in the Warspite 74, on the Mediterranean station. He next, in Sept. 1813, joined, as a Supernumerary, the Medway 74, flag-ship of Sir Rich. Bickerton at Portsmouth; from the following Nov. until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 6 July, 1814, he served in the same capacity at the Cape of Good Hope in the Laurel 38 and Semiramis 36, Capts. Hon. Granville Leveson Proby and Chas. Richardson; and between Aug. in the latter year and May, 1816, he was employed, on the Home station, in the Spitfire sloop, Capt. Jas. Robt. Dalton, Grampus 50, Capt. Fras. Augustus Collier, Larne 20, Capt. Abraham Lowe, and Glasgow 60, Capt. Hon. Anthony Maitland. From 19 Jan. 1827 until the close of 1838 he held an appointment in the Coast Guard.
He is now Emigration Agent at Belfast.