A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Strange, James Newburgh
STRANGE. (Commander, 1842. f-p., 15; h-p., 5.)
James Newburgh Strange was born 2 Oct. 1812.
This officer entered the Navy, 18 April, 1827, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Hussar 46, Capt. Edw. Boxer, stationed on the coast of North America. He next, in Aug. and Nov. 1830, joined the Prince Regent 120 and Undaunted 46, Capts. Jas. Whitley Dean Dundas and Edw. Harvey; and after serving for about three years in the latter ship at the Cape of Good Hope, he was appointed, in April, 1834, Mate (he had passed his examination 13 May, 1833) of the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Thos. Hastings. From June, 1835, until April, 1837, he was employed in the Mediterranean in the Barham 50, Capt. Armar Lowry Corry; on his arrival home in June of the latter year in the Revenge 78, Capt. Wm. Elliott, he joined the Britannia 120, Capt. J. W. D. Dundas, lying at Portsmouth; and in the following Sept. he was placed on board the Pearl 20, Capt. Lord Clarence Edw. Paget, on the North America and West India station. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 23 Feb. 1838, and was subsequently appointed – 24 Feb. and 29 July, 1838, to the Cornwallis 74, flagship of Hon. Sir Chas. Paget, and Inconstant 36, Capt. Dan. Pring, both on the station last named – 30 July, 1840, as Additional, after four months of half-pay, to the William and Mary yacht, Capt. Phipps Hornby – and in Oct. 1840 and Nov. 1841, to the Wilberforce and Albert steamers, Capts. Wm. Allen and Edm. Gardiner Fishbourne, in which vessels he continued employed on the Niger expedition, latterly as First-Lieutenant, until advanced to his present rank 30 March, 1842. He has since been on half-pay.