A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Strangways, Edmund Ludlow
STRANGWAYS. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
Edmund Ludlow Strangways entered the Navy 5 Feb. 1830; passed his examination 10 July, 1837; and for his services in the Hon.E.I.Co.’s war-steamer Nemesis under the present Capt. Wm. Hutcheon Hall, during the war in China (where he landed, 27 Feb. 1841, and assisted at the capture of 54 pieces of cannon on the enemy’s works close to Whampoa Reach[1]), was promoted, after he had been further, for about 12 months, employed in the Mediterranean in the Formidable 84, Capt. Sir Chas. Sullivan, to the rank of Lieutenant 23 Dec. 1842.[2] His succeeding appointments were – 29 April, 1843, as Additional, to the Illustrious 72, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Adam in North America and the West Indies – 1 Nov. following, to the Electra 18, Capt. Arthur Darley, on the same station – and 16 March, 1846, after a few months of half-pay, to the Favorite 14, Capt. Alex. Murray, fitting for the coast of Africa, where he was superseded about May, 1847. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.