Royal Naval Biography/Harrison, Joseph
JOSEPH HARRISON, Esq.
[Captain of 1832.]
Son of an old naval lieutenant, who died agent for transports at Plymouth in 1808. He obtained his first commission on the 10th May, 1807; and was appointed to the Achille 74, Captain Sir Richard King, Nov. lOth, 1809. In the summer of 1810, he commanded a Spanish gun-vessel, manned by that ship, and employed in the defence of Cadiz. He subsequently served off Toulon, on the coast of Sicily, in the Adriatic, off Cherbourgh, and on the South American station, from whence he returned home, and was put out of commission, in the autumn of 1816; at which period the Achille had been under the command of Captain (now Rear-Admiral) Hollis upwards of five years[1].
Lieutenant Harrison was made a commander in Sept. 1818; and promoted to the rank of captain, while serving in the Favorite sloop, on the coast of Africa, Oct. 9th, 1832. He continued in that vessel until paid off, at Portsmouth, in Aug. 1833.
This officer married, April 15th, 1820, Catherine, second daughter of ____ Mottley, Esq., of Portsmouth.