A Naval Biographical Dictionary/White, Frederick
WHITE. (Commander, 1846. f-p., 17; h-p., 25.)
Frederick White entered the Navy, 3 Sept. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Africa 64, Capt. Henry Digby; and on 21 Oct. following was wounded at the battle of Trafalgar.[1] The injury he sustained procured him a grant from the Patriotic Fund. In Dec. 1805 (he had already attained the rating of Midshipman) he removed, at Gibraltar, to the Beagle 18, Capt. Geo. Digby; with whom, in the early part of 1806, he returned to England, we believe, in the Swiftsure 74. In the course of the same year he joined the Zealand 64, Capt. Henry Lidgbird Ball, at the Nore, the Majestic 74, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Thos. Macnamara Russell in the North Sea, and the Orestes 16, Capt. John Richards Lapenotiere. After uniting in the latter vessel in Lord Gambier’s attack upon Copenhagen he was again, in Jan. 1808, placed under the command of Capt. Geo. Digby in the Cossack 24; in which ship he continued employed in the Channel under Capt. Thos. Garth, until April, 1812; in the course of which month we find him rejoining Capt. Digby on board the Lavinia frigate in the Mediterranean. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 10 Feb. 1812; and was appointed subsequently – 2 Sept. 1812, to the Chanticleer sloop, Capts. Rich. Spear and Stewart Blacker, in the North Sea – 21 Oct. 1813, after three or four months of half-pay, occasioned by ill-health, to the Colossus 74, Capt. Thos. Alexander, stationed in the Roompot – 4 March, 1814, to the Rinaldo 10, Capts. Edm. Lyons and Archibald Tisdall, in which vessel he escorted the Allied Sovereigns to England, and then proceeded to the West Indies, whence he invalided in the ensuing Dec – 28 Feb. 1837, for upwards of three years, to the Coast Guard – 23 Dec. 1841, to the post of Admiralty Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel – and 24 Aug. 1843, to the Ocean 80, guard-ship at Sheerness, Capts. Peter Fisher and Rich. Arthur. Since his promotion to the rank of Commander, which took place 9 Nov. 1846, he has been on half-pay. He obtained a pension of 6l. per annum for wounds 17 May, 1843. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1805, p. 1484.