A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Weaver, William (b)
WEAVER. (Lieut., 1826. f-p., 18; h-p., 21.)
William Weaver (b) was born 11 Oct. 1795.
This officer entered the Navy, 24 Dec. 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Bellerophon 74, Capt. Sam. Warren, with whom he continued employed (at first under the flag of Hon. Alan Hyde Gardner) off the Texel, in the Baltic, at the Cape of Good Hope, and in the East Indies, North Sea, and Mediterranean, in the same ship, and in the President 38 and Blenheim 74, until Sept. 1814. He belonged to the Bellerophon when her boats, in company with those of a squadron, cut out, off Percola Point, 7 July, 1809, the Russian gun-boats alluded to in our memoir of Capt. Chas. Allen; and he was in the President (after having brought Lucien Buonaparte from Malta to England) at the reduction of Java in 1811. While attached to the latter ship he received the rating of Midshipman. On leaving the Blenheim, as above, he joined the Aquilon 32, Capts. Thos. Burton and Rich. Budd Vincent. In her he served for 19 months in the Mediterranean and off Lisbon, part of the time as Master’s Mate. Having passed his examination in Feb. 1815, he was next, in May, 1816, appointed Admiralty-Midshipman of the Maeander 38, Capts. John Bastard and Arthur Fanshawe, lying in the river Thames; and in the ensuing Aug., having been lent to the Fury bomb, Capt. Constantine Rich. Moorsom, he was present at the bombardment of Algiers. He was afterwards, from Oct. 1816, until May, 1823, employed, on the Home station, in the Northumberland 74, Capt. Jas. Walker, Pioneer schooner, Lieut.-Commander John Wood Rouse, Severn 50, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch, and Albion 74, Capts. Rich. Raggett and Sir Wm. Hoste; and, from May, 1823, until Sept. 1826, in South America, in the Mersey 26, Capt. John Macpherson Ferguson, and Cambridge 82, Capt. Thos. Jas. Maling. He has since been on half-pay. His commission bears date 27 March, 1826.