A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stoll, John Luke Richard
STOLL. (Commander, 1841. f-p., 17; h-p., 6.)
John Luke Richard Stoll is son of the Hon. J. W. Stoll, Treasurer and Accountant-General at the Cape of Good Hope, and a Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of that colony.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Jan. 1824, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Andromache frigate, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Joseph Nourse at the Cape of Good Hope. In Feb. 1825 he was discharged; and in the following May he entered the Royal Naval College. He joined next, in the course of 1827, the Acorn and Satellite sloops, Capts. Alex. Ellice and John Milligen Laws (each forming part of an experimental squadron), and Maidstone 42, bearing the broad pendants of Commodores Wm. Skipsey and Chas. Marsh Sohomberg at the Cape of Good Hope; where he removed, in Aug. 1830, to the Espoir 10, Capt. Henry Fras. Greville. On that vessel being paid off he was received, in Jan. 1831, on board the Winchester 52, fitting for the flag of Sir Edw. Griffith Colpoys, Commander-in-Chief on the North America and West India station. He attained the rank of Lieutenant 6 Oct. 1832; and was in that capacity appojnted – 29 Oct. 1832, to the Fly 18, Capt. Peter M‘Quhae, in the West Indies, where he remained until Feb. 1835 – 4 Feb. 1836, as a Supernumerary, to the Thalia 42, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Patrick Campbell at the Cape of Good Hope – in April, 1837, and March, 1838, to the command of the Buzzard and Bonetta of 3 guns each, on the coast of Africa, , whence he returned to England and was paid off in June, 1840 – and in Nov. 1841, as Senior, to his former ship the Fly, Capt. Fras. Price Blackwood, fitting at Plymouth for a surveying expedition to the East Indies. The Thalia made prize of two slave-vessels; the Buzzard suffered severely from fever at Fernando Po; and the Bonetta, which vessel Mr. Stoll joined while she was in quarantine at Ascension, had half her officers and crew carried off. In her he succeeded in capturing as many as nine slavers, three of which, of superior force, were taken 50 miles up the Congo River, and one cut out, after a sharp resistance, from the river Pongos, by two boats under his own direction. He was advanced to his present rank, soon after he had joined the Fly, 23 Nov. 1841; and since 30 June, 1847, has been employed as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard. Agents – Messrs. Chard.