Royal Naval Biography/Hoffman, Frederick
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FREDERICK HOFFMAN, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant in 1799; appointed acting commander of the Favorite sloop, on the African station, in July 1807; and promoted to his present rank, Feb. 22d, 1808, In the beginning of May 1812, he lost the Apelles sloop, that vessel, then under his command, having unfortunately run on shore to the westward of Boulogne, where himself and nineteen of his people were obliged to surrender as prisoners of war; the remainder of his officers and crew effected their escape, and the Apelles was very soon afterwards recaptured by the Bermuda sloop. Captain Alexander Cunningham.