A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Strover, Thomas
STROVER. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 17; h-p., 25.)
Thomas Strover entered the Navy, 26 Aug. 1805, as L.M., on board the Prince Frederick, Lieut.-Commander Leach, lying at Plymouth; and from Feb. 1806 until Aug. 1812 was employed, almost uninterruptedly, with the late Sir Sam. Hood, on the Home, Baltic, Mediterranean, and East India stations, as Fst.-cl. Vol., Midshipman, and Master’s Mate, in the Centaur 74, Hibernia 120, Tigre 74, Owen Glendower 36, and Illustrious 74. In the Centaur he was in company, 25 Sept. 1806, with the Mars and Monarch 74’s, at the capture of four heavy French frigates from Rochefort, on which occasion Sir S. Hood lost his arm. He accompanied also the expedition of 1807 against Copenhagen; beheld, in Dec. of that year, the surrender of Madeira; assisted, in conjunction with the Implacable 74, at the capture, 26 Aug. 1808, in sight of the whole Russian fleet, near Rogerswick, of the 74-gun ship Sewolod, after a close and furious conflict, in which the Centaur lost 3 killed and 27 wounded, and the enemy 180 killed and wounded; and in Aug. 1809 was engaged, under Capt. Wm. Henry Webley, in the attack upon Walcheren. On 18 Aug. 1812, being then on the East India station, he was nominated (he had been promoted at home on 7 of that month) Acting-Lieutenant of the Samarang 16, Capt. Wm. Case. He continued in the East Indies in the latter vessel, and in the Minden 74, bearing the flag of Sir S. Hood, and Theban 36, Capt. Sam. Leslie, until the early part of 1816, when he returned to England and was paid off. His next appointments were – 17 Sept. 1821 and 27 Nov. 1822, to the Carnation 18 and Tamar 26, Capts. John Edw. Walcott and Thos. Herbert, both on the Jamaica station, whence he came home in Aug. 1823 – and, 10 Jan. 1824, for about two years, to the Active 46, Capts. Andrew King and Robt. Rodney, on the Mediterranean and Lisbon stations. In Aug. 1846 he joined the Poictiers 72, Capt. Sir Thos. Bourchier, guard-ship at Chatham; and, since 24 Sept. following, he has been employed as Admiralty Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel.