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HALL.
Capts. Wm. Dowers, H. T. Davies, Jas. Boxer, and Manley Hall Dixon, employed on the North American, African, and Brazihan stations. He has been on half-pay since 11 Jan. 1815. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
HALL. (Lieutenant, 1814. f-p., 26; h-p., 18.)
Henry Watson Hall entered the Navy, 6 March, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Culloden 74, Capt. Chas. Hen. Lane, on the Home station, where he successively removed, in the course of the same year, to the Salvador del Mundo and Monarch, flag-ships of Sir John Colpoys and Lord Keith. Being discharged in Oct. 1804 he did not again go afloat until Jan. 1810, when he re-embarked on board the Emerald 36, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, whom he soon afterwards accompanied to the Cape of Good Hope. During the years 1812-13 we find him cruizing in the Channel and off Newfoundland, as Midshipman, in the Pheasant 18, Capt. John Palmer. He then rejoined Lord Keith on board the Queen Charlotte 100; and, obtaining his commission 16 Aug. 1814, was subsequently appointed – 18 Dec. 1814, for a period of seven months, to the Rhin 38, Capt. Chas. Malcolm, off the coast of France – 25 Dec. 1819, to the Tamar frigate, Capts. Arthur Stow and Sir Wm. Saltonstall Wiseman, in which he served on the Jamaica station until his health obliged him to invalid – 27 April, 1830, to the Coast Guard – and, 14 March, 1834, to the Directorship of Police at Portsmouth Dockyard, a situation he still holds.
HALL. (Lieutenant, 1811. f-p., 13; h-p., 31.)
John Hall (a) entered the Navy, 7 June, 1803, as A.B., on board the Cerberus 32, Capt. Wm. Selby, and in the following Sept. assisted at the bombardment of Granville. Proceeding, immediately after the latter event, to the West Indies, he there, on 2 Jan. 1807, served as Master’s Mate, and was extolled for his unsurpassable bravery, at the cutting out of two of the enemy’s vessels, defended by a most tremendous fire from the batteries near Pearl Bock, Martinique, which killed 2 men and wounded 10;[1] and he further, we believe, witnessed the capture, in March, 1808, of the islands of Marie-galante and Desirade. In July of the latter year he joined the Leviathan 74, Capts. John Harvey and Donald Campbell, with whom he served off Cadiz and in the Mediterranean (where he beheld the self-destruction, 26 Oct. 1811, of the French ships of the line Robuste and Lion) until appointed Acting-Lieutenant, 1 Aug. 1811, of the York 74, Capt. Robt. Barton; to which vessel he was confirmed on 26 of the ensuing Sept. He was afterwards, from 4 Sept. 1812 until 31 Aug. 1815, employed on the West India and North American stations in the Surprise 38, Capt. Sir Thos. John Cochrane; but has not, that we are aware, been since afloat. Agents- Messrs. Ommanney.
HALL. (Lieutenant, 1843.)
Robert Hall entered the Navy 27 May, 1833; passed his examination 3 June, 1839; and, after serving for some time as Mate, in the Pacific and at the Nore, of the Dublin 50, and Camperdown 104, flag-ships of Rear-Admiral Rich. Thomas and Sir Edw. Brace, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 28 Nov. 1843. His appointments have since been – 2 Feb. and 15 July, 1844, and 30 Jan. 1845, to the Camperdown again. Queen 110, and Trafalgar 120, bearing the flags at Sheerness of Sir John Chambers White and Sir Edw. Durnford King – and, 19 Nov. 1845, to the Grampus 50, Capt. Hen. Byam Martin, with whom he is now employed in the Pacific. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
HALL. (Commander, 1819. f-p., 20; h-p., 26.)
Roger Hall entered the Navy, in May, 1801, as Midshipman, on board the Princess Charlotte, Capt. Hon. Fras. Farington Gardner, with whom, until Sept. 1805, ho successively served, on the Irish and Channel stations, in the same ship, the Ruay, and Galykheid, and again in the Princess Charlotte. In May, 1806, he joined the Theseus 74, Capt. Geo. Hope, and on the following Oct., after an intermediate cruize in the Atlantic, he removed to the Impérieuse 38, Capts. Lord Cochrane, Thos. Garth, and Hon. Hen. Duncan; during his attachment to which frigate he appears to have fallen into the hands of the enemy, and to have been confined for a considerable time in a French prison. On 9 Aug. 1811 Mr. Hall was noininated Acting-Lieutenant of the Blake 74, Capt. Edw. Codrington, stationed in the Mediterranean, where he was confirmed on 26 of the following month, and next appointed, 23 June, 1812, and 4 July, 1816, to the Berwick 74, and Impregnable 104, both commanded by Capt. Edw. Brace, under whom he cooperated in the reduction of the towns of Genoa and Gaeta in 1814-15, and in the bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816. He afterwards, on 30 Dec. 1816, joined the Egeria 26, Capt. Robt. Rowley, from which vessel, employed off Newfoundland, he was promoted, 11 Sept. 1819, to the acting-command of the Carnation sloop. He was confirmed, 10 Nov. following, into the Drake; but, since the autumn of 1821, has been on half-pay. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
HALL. (Lieutenant, 1816. f-p., 28; h-p., 11.)
Thomas Samuel Hall entered the Navy, 26 Sept. 1808, as a Volunteer, on board the Arethusa 38, Capt. Robt. Mends, under whom he took part in many active operations on the north coast of Spain, and witnessed the capture, 6 April, 1809, of the French 40-gun frigate Le Niemen. He afterwards, between May, 1810, and May, 1815, served, chiefly as Midshipman, in the Hazard sloop, Capts. Wm. Elliot and John Cookesley, Vigo 74, Capt. Hen. Manaton Ommanney, Antelope 50, Capt. Sam. Butcher, Pique 36, Capt. Hon. Anthony Maitland, Emulous brig, and Arachne 18, both commanded by Capt. Wm. M‘Kenzie Godfrey, Warrior 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral John Erskine Douglas, and Shark receiving-ship, Capt. Houston Stewart, on the Newfoundland, Baltic, Home, and Jamaica stations. He was then successively nominated Acting-Lieutenant, in the West Indies and South America, of the North Star 20, Capt. Thos. Coe, Emulous, Capts. Thos. Wren Carter arid Caleb Jackson, and Forester 16, Capt. Wm. Hendry. Being officially promoted by commission dated 1 Jan. 1816, he was subsequently appointed – 5 March, 1825, to the Coast Blockade, in which service he continued, with his name successively on the books of the Ramillies and Talavera 74’s, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot, until its abolition in March, 1831 – on 31 of the latter month, to the Coast Guard – 12 Oct. 1836, to the Ranger Revenue-vessel, the command of which he retained until superseded in Nov. 1839 – 18 Aug. 1840, again to the Coast Guard – 3 Sept. 1841, to the Victory 104, guard-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Wm. Wilmott Henderson – and, 12 Dec. 1845, to an Admiralty agency in a contract mail steam-vessel. He has been on half-pay since the spring of 1846.
Lieut. Hall is Senior of 1816. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
HALL. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 18; h-p., 32.)
William Hall entered the Navy, 1 Dec. 1797, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Boadicea 38 Capt. Rich. Goodwin Keats; previously to accompanying whom, as Midshipman, into the Superb 74, he witnessed, 2 July, 1799, an attack made by Rear-Admiral Chas. Morice Pole on a Spanish squadron lying in Aix Roads. On his removal to the last-mentioned ship he was afforded an opportunity, in July, 1801, of sharing in Sir Jas. Saumarez’ celebrated actions off Algeciras and Cadiz. On his ultimate return to England from the Mediterranean as a passenger in the Kent 74, Capt. John Chambers White, he was successively appointed Acting and Sub-Lieutenant, in 1804-5, of the Musquito 18
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1807, p. 304.
