A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Wise, Chapman
WISE. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 28; h-p., 13.)
Chapman Wise entered the Navy, 10 Nov. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Fortunée 36, Capt. Henry Vansittart, under whom he was for four years employed in the Channel and on the coast of Ireland. From Nov. 1810 until Dec. 1811 he served in the Mediterranean, in the Blake 74 and Royal Sovereign 100, Capts. Edw. Codrington and John Harvey; he was then a second time placed under the command of Capt, Vansittart, in the Fortunée; and after he had been further employed with the same officer as Master’s Mate in the Clarence 74, and with Capts. Edw. Sneyd Clay, Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer, and Nathaniel Mitchell, in the Raisonnable 64, Pactolus 38, and Florida 20, on the Home, North American, and West India stations, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 29 March, 1815. His appointments have since been . – 29 Jan. 1824, for upwards of three years, to the Coast Blockade, as a Supernumerary of the Ramillies 74, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot – 7 June, 1831, to the Coast Guard – 17 Aug. 1838, to the post, which he retained until the commencement of 1844, of Admiralty Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel – 1 June in the latter year, again to the Coast Guard – and 29 Sept. 1845, to the command (he still holds it) of the Fox Revenue-cruizer. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.