A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hubbard, William (b)

by William Richard O'Byrne

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HUBBARD. (Lieutenant, 1828.)

William Hubbard (b) entered the Navy 1 Jan. 1810; passed his examination in. 1817; and was made Lieutenant, 13 Nov. 1828, into the Rattlesnake 28, Capt. Hon. Chas. Orlando Bridgeman, on the Mediterranean station, whence he invalided in Feb. 1829. His next and last appointments were – 18 Nov. 1834, to the charge of the Semaphore station on Putney Heath – and, 23 Nov. 1835, to the Directorship of Police at Chatham Dockyard. He has been on half-pay since Sept. 1841.

Lieut. Hubbard was granted, 10 April, 1829, a pension of 103l. 5s. for wounds.

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