A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Warren, Henry
WARREN. (Lieutenant, 1840.)
Henry Warren entered the Navy, 3 May, 1827, as a Volunteer, on board the Victory 104, Capt. Hon. Geo. Elliot, guard-ship at Portsmouth. In the following Sept. he became Midshipman of the Isis 50, Capt. Sir Thos. Staines; and in Jan. 1828 he assisted at the reduction of the piratical fort of Carabusa, in the island of Candia, and at the destruction there of several vessels belonging to the freebooters. He continued employed in the Mediterranean in the Ganges 84, Capt. Geo. Burdett, until March, 1832; he next, in March and June, 1833, joined his former ship, the Victory, Capt. Edw. Rich. Williams, and the Donegal 78, Capt. Arthur Fanshawe, the latter on the Lisbon station; and in the month of June, 1834 (in the course of which year he passed his examination), he was nominated Mate in succession of the Hastings 74, Capt. Henry Shiffner, and Winchester 52, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Thos. Bladen Capel, whom he accompanied to the East Indies. In March, 1840, at which period he had been for about 10 months employed in the Mediterranean in the Hydra steamer, Capt. Anthony Wm. Milward, and Pembroke 74, Capt. Fairfax Moresby, he joined the Pique 36, Capt. Edw. Boxer. He served subsequently in the boats and on shore in the operations on the coast of Syria, and was present at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre. At the storming of Sidon he happened to be on board the Stromboli steamer, Capt. Woodford John Williams : as a reward for his services he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 4 Nov. 1840. On 2 Dec. following the Pique, in which frigate he yet remained, was under the necessity of cutting away her masts during a gale in Acre Bay. Mr. Warren’s appointments, since he left her, have been – 2 and 14 Feb. 1841, and 8 April, 1843, to the Vesuvius, Medea, and Cyclops steamers, Capts. Thos. Henderson, Fred. Warden, and Horatio Thos. Austin, all in the Mediterranean – 4 Sept. 1843, after nearly four months of half-pay, to the Coast Guard – and 28 April, 1845, and 17 Dec. 1847, to the Seaflower cutter and Cuckoo steamer of 100-horse power, Capts. Juste Peter Koepel, and Henry Dumaresq, employed in protecting the Jersey fishers, a service on which he continues. While on the books of the Seaflower he was detached in her tender the Sylvia.
Lieut. Warren married, in Oct. 1843, Sarah, daughter of the late Capt. Biggs, of the King’s Royal Rifles. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.