until presented, in Nov. 1815, with a commission bearing date 16 March in that year, was employed at the Cape of Good Hope, in the Channel and West Indies, and at Newfoundland, in the Galatea 42, Capt. Woodley Losack. While cruizing in the latter ship off Madagascar, in company with the Astraea and Phoebe (frigates about equal to the Galatea in force), and 18-gun brig Racehorse, he took part, 20 May, 1811, in a long and trying action with the French 40-gun frigates Rénommée, Clorinde, and Néréide in which the Rénommée was captured, and the Galatea, besides being much damaged in her hull, masts, and rigging, sustained a loss of 16 men killed and 46 wounded. He has not been afloat since his promotion.
He married, 24 Sept. 1829, Jane, eldest daughter of W. Betensen, Esq., by whom he has issue five children.
SMAIL. (Lieutenant, 1825.)
James Smail is brother of Lieut. Wm. A. Small, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 14 Nov. 1809; passed his examination in 1815; and obtained his commission 21 April, 1825. His appointments have since been – 18 May, 1830, to the Donegal 78, Capt. John Dick, employed on particular service – 2 Sept. 1831, to the Prince Regent 120, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Wm. Parker off Lisbon, whence he returned to England and was paid off in the early part of 1832 – 18 Dec. 1837, to the command, which he retained until March, 1845, of the Zephyr steam-packet, on the Holyhead station – and 21 March, 1848, to that of the Seagull schooner, of 6 guns, at Falmouth.
He married, 5 April, 1832, Fanny, second daughter of E. Horton, Esq., of Baker Street, Portman Square.
SMAIL. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 12; h-p., 29.)
William Archibald Smail (brother of the present Lieut. Jas. Smail, R.N., and of Lieut. John Smail, R.N., who died in 1804) is nephew of the late Admirals Wm. Dickson and Sir Arch. Dickson, Bart.
This officer entered the Navy, 16 June, 1806, as Sec.-cl. Boy, on board the Nassau 64, Capt. Robt. Campbell; under whom, after blockading the Texel and accompanying the expedition against Copenhagen, we find him (on being extricated from a mass of ice in which the Nassau had been blocked up during the whole winter) assisting, 22 March, 1808, in company with the Stately 64, at the capture and destruction, on the coast of Zealand, of the Danish 74 Prindts Christian Frederic – an exploit accomplished at the end of a running fight of great length and obstinacy productive of a loss to the Nassau of 2 men killed and 16 wounded. In Nov. 1809 Mr. Smail, who had attained the rating of Midshipman in Sept. 1806, and had made a voyage to St. Helena, removed to the Orion 74, Capt. Sir Archibald Collingwood Dickson. In that ship, in which he continued until the summer of 1812, he served at the blockade of Carlskrona and Danzig, and visited the coast of Portugal. On leaving her he was ordered to join, with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant, the flotilla employed in the defence of Riga. Before, however, he could reach that place the siege was raised, and his services in consequence were not required. He had become attached in the mean time, as a Supernumerary, to the Cressy 74 and Hamadryad 36, Capts. Chas. Dudley Pater and Edw. Chetham; in the boats of which latter ship and the Clio 18, commanded by Lieut. Horace Petley, he contributed, 14 Oct. 1812, to the capture, off Hermeren, after a chase of 14 hours, of Le Pilotin French privateer, carrying 4 12-pounder carronades and 31 men. On 15 Nov. in the same year he was placed as Acting-Lieutenant on board the Sweaborg, bearing the flag of the Russian Commander-in-Chief, for the purpose of keeping up a communication between the English and Russian fleets on their passage to England. For the services he performed on this occasion he was officially promoted 17 Dec. following. His last appointments were – 23 May, 1813, to the Akbar 50, Capts. Archibald Dickson and Chas. Bullen, employed on the Brazilian, North Sea, and Halifax stations – and 8 April, 1817, after three months of half-pay, to the Rochfort 80, guard-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir A. C. Dickson, with whom he continued until paid off in Aug. 1818.
SMART. (Lieutenant, 1815.)
John Norval Smart died 8 Feb. 1846.
This officer entered the Navy, 18 Jan. 1806, as Ordinary, on board the Ariel sloop, Capts. Joseph Oliver and Thos. White, under whom he served for nearly three years in the North Sea and Baltic. He was next, from March, 1809, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 25 Nov. 1815, employed on the Home, East India, Cape of Good Hope, Halifax, and Cork stations, as Master’s Mate, in La Flèche 16, Capt. Wm. Buchanan, Hecate sloop, Capts. Joseph Drury, Thos. Graham, Geo. Henderson, and Geo. Rennie, Barbadoes 24, Capts. Brian Hodgson and Edw. Rushworth, St. Fiorenzo troop-ship, Capt. Hon. Edm. Sexton Pery Knox, Montagu 74, Capt. Manley Hall Dixon, Laurestinus 24, Capt. Thos. Graham, and Lightning 20, Capt. G. Rennie. In Dec. 1810 he was present in the Hecate at the reduction of the Isle of France; on 7 Sept. 1811 he was wounded in an attack made, in company with the Goshawk 16, on seven French gun-brigs, carrying 3 long 24-pounders and a mortar each, and manned with 75 men; and in 1813, in the course of which year he took part in the Laurestinus in a variety of operations in the Chesapeake, and was again wounded, he commanded a boat in the attack upon Crany Island and at the capture of Hampton. The gun-brigs above alluded to were chased into Calvados, and one of them driven on shore. In March, 1821, Lieut. Smart obtained an appointment to the Doris 42, Capts. Thos. Graham and Fred. Edw. Venables Vernon (now Harcourt), fitting for South America; where he removed, 21 Sept. 1822, to the Alacrity sloop, Capt. Thos. Porter.
He married, 23 Aug. 1830, Mary Eleanor Robins, only daughter of the late Capt. Wm. Lyall, R.N.
SMART, K.H. (Capt., 1837. f-p., 23; h-p., 14.)
Robert Smart was born in Sept. 1796.
This officer entered the Navy, in Oct, 1810, as Fst.-cl, Vol,, on board the Adamant 50, Capt, Matthew Buckle, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Wm. Albany Otway on the Leith station, where he was lent for eight months to the Plover 18, Capt. Colin Campbell, and for nine to the Rifleman 18, Capt. Joseph Pearce. From March, 1813, until Oct. 1816, he served on the West India, Brazilian, and Mediterranean stations, as Midshipman (a rating he had attained 9 May, 1811) and as Master’s Mate, in the Pique 36 and Glasgow 50, both commanded by Capt. Hon. Anthony Maitland, under whom he assisted, in the latter ship, at the bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816. He was then received for a few weeks on board the Queen Charlotte 100, Capt. Edm. Boger, lying at Portsmouth. In Sept. 1817, nine months after he had passed his examination, he again joined Capt. Maitland in the Glasgow, on the Mediterranean station, where he was nominated, 1 July, 1820, Acting-Lieutenant of the Scout 18, Capt. Wm. Bamsden. He was confirmed to that vessel 11 Sept. following, but left her in Oct. 1821, and was subsequently appointed, again in the Mediterranean – 26 June, 1823, to the Cambrian 48, Capt. Gawen Wm. Hamilton – 7 Dec. 1825, to the Revenge 76, flag-ship of Sir Harry Burrard Neale – 6 Aug. 1826, to the Ariadne 26, Capt. Adolphus FitzClarence – and, in Oct. 1827, a second time to the Cambrian, commanded, as before, by Capt. G. W. Hamilton, under whom he fought at the battle of Navarin, and was wrecked during an attack on a nest of pirates at Carabusa 31 Jan. 1828. He attained the rank of Commander 21 April, 1828; served in that capacity in the Satellite 18, in the North Sea and South America, from 16 Sept, 1832
