A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hart, Benjamin
HART. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 31.)
Benjamin Hart entered the Navy, 9 Jan. 1807, as Clerk, on board the Peterel sloop, Capt. John Lamborn, employed on the Jamaica station, whence he returned in Nov. 1808. Becoming Midshipman, in April, 1809, of the Minotaur 74, Capt. John Barrett, he continued to serve under that officer, on the Baltic station, until 22 Dec. 1810, when he had the misfortune to be wrecked, on the Haak Sands, near the Texel, and taken prisoner. On his release from captivity in May, 1814, he joined the Leviathan 74, Capts. Adam Drummond and Thos. Briggs, in which ship we find him employed, off Lisbon and Cork and in the Mediterranean, until Nov. 1815. He then took up a commission, dated on 6 of the previous March, and has since been on half-pay.