At the period of his death he was holding the appointment of Landing-Surveyor in the Customs at St. John’s, New Brunswick.
SMITH. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
George Martyr Smith passed his examination 12 Aug. 1844; served as Mate in the Cyclops steam-frigate, Capt. Wm. Fred. Lapidge, Trafalgar 120, Capt. Wm. Fanshawe Martin, Endymion 44, Capt. Geo.Robt. Lambert, and Hermes steam-sloop, Lieut.-Commander Washington Carr; obtained his commission 9 Nov. 1846; was appointed, 22 April, 1847, for a few months, to the Recruit 12, Capt. Adolphus Slade, on the coast of Portugal; and, since 22 June, 1848, has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard.
SMITH. (Lieutenant, 1842. f-p., 17; h-p., 2.)
George Thomas Cleather Smith was born 18 May, 1815.
This officer entered the Navy, 26 Jan. 1828, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Britannia 120, Capts. Edw. Hawker and Geo. Burdett, employed at home and in the Mediterranean. On his return to England with Capt. Burdett as Midshipman in the Asia 84, he was received as a Supernumerary, in June, 1830, on board the St. Vincent 120, Capt. Hyde Parker, lying at Portsmouth; and after again serving with him for a few weeks in the Ganges 84, he joined, in the following Oct., the Racehorse 18, Capts. Chas. Hamlyn Williams and Fras. Vere Cotton, fitting for the North America and West India station. He left that vessel at Halifax in Sept. 1832; he served next, from March, 1834, until April, 1842, off Lisbon and again in the Mediterranean, six years and eight months of the time as Mate, in the Revenge 78, Capt. Wm. Elliott, Beacon surveying- vessel, Capts. Sackett Hope and Thos. Graves, and Gorgon steamer, Capt. Wm. Honyman Henderson; and, on 10 Nov. in the latter year, at which period he had been for nearly three months employed at Portsmouth and at Harwich in the Orestes 18, Capt. Hon. Swynfen Thos. Carnegie, and Shearwater steamer, Capt. John Washington, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His appointments have since been – 13 Jan. 1843, to the Hecla steam-sloop, Capt. John Duffill, fitting at Woolwich – 13 March, 1843, and 13 Feb. 1844, to the Comet and Lucifer steam surveying-vessels, commanded on the coast of Ireland by Capt. Geo. Alex. Frazer – and, 29 Oct. 1847, to the command of the Blazer steamer, of 136-horse power, on the coast of Africa.
While belonging to the Racehorse Mr. Smith was on several occasions employed on shore in Montego and Lucca Bays during the insurrection among the negroes in 1831. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
SMITH. (Commander, 1841.)
George Woodberry Smith entered the Navy 4 Nov. 1812; passed his examination in 1819; and was made Lieutenant, 27 July, 1826, into the Pandora 18, Capt. Wm. Clarke Jervoise, on the East India station. His next appointments were – 15 Sept. 1830, to the Wellesley 74, Capt. Sam. Campbell Rowley, employed on particular service – 6 July, 1832, and 8 Nov. 1833, as First, to the Dee steam-vessel, Capts. Wm. Oliver and Edw. Stanley, and Phoenix, another steamer, Capts. W. Oliver and Hugh Nurse, both in the Channel – and 3 July, 1835, and 2 Feb. 1838, to the command, in the West Indies, of the Meteor and Tartarus steamers. He continued in the latter vessel until some months after his promotion to the rank he now holds, which took place 23 Nov. 1841; and was afterwards, from 28 Sept. 1842 until Nov. 1846, employed as Additional- Commander of the William and Mary yacht. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
SMITH. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
Harry Smith passed his examination 20 Sept. 1838; served as Mate in the Vanguard 80 and Modeste 18, Capts. Sir David Dunn and Thos. Baillie, on the Mediterranean, Lisbon, and South American stations, from 1840 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 20 Jan. 1845; and, since 19 Nov. in the latter year, has been employed in the Grampus 50, Capt. Henry Byam Martin, in the Pacific.
SMITH, C.B. (Captain, 1829.)
Henry Smith (a) attained the rank of Lieutenant 19 July, 1821; and was appointed in that capacity – 25 April, 1823, to the Genoa 74, Capt. Sir Thos. Livingstone, in which ship he continued for about a year and a half – and, 7 May, 1827, as First, to the Fairy 10, Capt. Geo. Wm. Conway Courtenay, fitting for the West Indies. He was there, 3 Feb. 1828, advanced to the command of the Ferret brig; from which vessel he removed, 14 April following, to the Arachne 18. He was nominated, 8 Sept. 1829, Acting-Captain of the Magnificent receiving-ship at Jamaica; and in 1831 he was officially promoted by a commission bearing the same date. His next appointments were, 27 Nov. 1837, and 30 June, 1840, to the Volage 26 and Druid 44, on the East India station, whence he returned in 1843. In the Volage he commanded a highly successful expedition (consisting of that ship, the Cruizer 16, Hon.E.I.Co.’s vessels Coote and Mahé;, and transports Lowjee Family, Ernaad, and Ann Crichton) against the town of Aden, in Arabia, where the fortifications were destroyed and the enemy completely subdued;[1] and in the Druid he distinguished himself by the active part he took in the operations in China. On 19 Aug. 1840, with the Larne 18, Hyacinth 18, Enterprise steamer, and Louisa cutter under his orders, he made so prompt and decisive an attack upon the works and barracks erected close to the barrier at Macao, that the Chinese were quickly put to flight, and their intentions against that city frustrated. In 1841 he was present, and was repeatedly thanked for his conduct, at the reduction of Tycocktow, in the action with the Bogue forts, and at the taking of Canton and Amoy.[2] He has been in command, since 1 March, 1848, of the Ganges 84, at Sheerness.
Capt. Smith was nominated a C.B. 13 Aug. 1840. He married, at Berne, in Switzerland, 18 Sept. 1844, Anna, eldest daughter of the late Sylvester Costigin, Esq., of Dublin. Agent – John P. Muspratt.
SMITH. (Captain, 1846.)
Henry Smith (b) entered the Navy, 20 May, 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Courageux 74, Capt. Wm. Butterfield, stationed in Basque Roads; and, from the following Nov. until March, 1813, was employed in the East Indies in the Malacca 36, commanded by the latter officer and by Capts. Sam. Leslie and Henry John Peachey, Sir Francis Drake 32, Capt. H. J. Peachey, and Modeste 36, Capt. Jas. Coutts Crawford. He served next, until Aug. 1815, on the Baltic and Home stations, as Midshipman, in the Amphion 32, Capts. Jas. Pattison Stewart and John Brett Purvis, and Northumberland 74, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Cockburn; and, from Nov. 1816 until Oct. 1821, in North and South America, the Mediterranean, and West Indies, as Midshipman, Master’s Mate, and Admiralty-Midshipman, in the Leander 50, flag-ship of Sir David Milne, Vengeur 74, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, and Pyramus 42, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Wm. Chas. Fahle. He then became Acting-Lieutenant of the Forte 44, Capt. Sir Thos. John Cochrane, to which ship, employed at Halifax and in the West Indies, he was confirmed 9 Jan. 1822. He was placed on half-pay in 1823, and was subsequently appointed – 10 Aug. 1826, as First, to the Pelican 18, Capt. Hon. Chas. Leonard Irby, fitting for the Mediterranean, whence he returned in the summer of 1827 – 15 Dec. 1828, in a similar capacity, to the Champion 18, Capts. Geo. Scott and Fras. Vere Cotton, with whom he served for about two years and a half on the African and North America and West India stations – 2 Sept. 1832, again as Senior,
