A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stevens, Frederick Hildebrand
STEVENS. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Frederick Hildebrand Stevens entered the Navy 18 Sept. 1823; passed his examination 9 Nov. 1830; and, on the occasion of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant 28 July, 1841, was nominated Additional of the Britannia 120, flag-ship of Sir John Acworth Ommanney in the Mediterranean; where he had been serving latterly, as Mate, on board the Medea steamer, Capt. Fred. Warden. His appointments have since been – in the course of the same year, to the Powerful 84, Capt. Michael Seymour, fitting at Portsmouth – 26 March, 1842, to the Queen 110, flag-ship of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen in the Mediterranean – 18 Jan. and 8 April, 1843, and 12 Sept. 1844, to the Geyser steamer, Medea again, and Orestes 18, Capts. Edw. John Carpenter, F. Warren, and Edw. St. Leger Cannon, on the same station – 14 Nov. 1846, to the America 50., Capt. Sir Thos. Maitland, employed on particular service – and, 30 Nov. 1847, to the Inconstant 36, Capt. John Shepherd, now on the S.E. coast of America. In the Powerful and Queen he was Additional, and in the Geyser, Orestes, and America First, Lieutenant. Of the Inconstant he is at present Second-Lieutenant. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.