Royal Naval Biography/Atkinson, Henry Esch
HENRY ESCH ATKINSON, Esq.
[Commander.]
This officer passed his examination in July 1813, at which period he was a midshipman of the Vigo 74. He obtained the rank of lieutenant on the 16th Feb. 1815; and subsequently served in the Bacchus 16, Commander William Hill; Brazen 26, Captain William Shepheard, on the Cape of Good Hope station, from whence he returned home invalided in 1820; Queen Charlotte 108, flag-ship of Sir James Hawkins Whitshed, commander-in-chief at Portsmouth; and Britomart 10, Commander Octavius V. Vernon, on the Jamaica station. He was appointed a supernumerary lieutenant of the Hyperion 42, coast guard depot, at Newhaven, Aug. 23d, 1825; removed to the Weazle sloop. Commander John Dundas, fitting out at Portsmouth, Mar. 9th, 1827; and advanced to his present rank on the 30th of the following month.