A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Wasey, Edward Frodsham Noel K.
WASEY. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Edward Frodsham Noel K. Wasey passed his examination 31 Jan. 1842; and after having served, as Mate on the North America and West India and African stations in the Pilot 16, Capts. Geo. Ramsay and Wallace Houstoun, Penelope steam-frigate. Commodore Wm. Jones, and Alert sloop, Capt. Chas. John Bosanquet, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 10 March, 1846. He has been employed, since 24 April in that year, in the Polyphemus steam-sloop of 200-horse power, Capts. Jas. Johnstone M‘Cleverty and Rich. Borough Crawford. On 8 Nov. 1848 he was severely wounded by a ball lodging in the bone of his right arm, in a successful attempt made by the Polyphemus to retake from the Moorish pirates a merchant-brig, the Three Sisters, lying in a small bay, partly surrounded by an amphitheatre of precipices, high rocks, and ravines, all of which places were crowded with men, in number at least 500, armed with long muskets, who, on the approach of the British, opened a fire from all points. Mr. Wasey’s able support of his Captain on this occasion obtained official mention.[1]
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1848.