Sub-Lieutenant of the Trinidad schooner. He was placed in command, 3 Aug. following, with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant, of the Safety schooner, and to that vessel he was confirmed 17 Nov. in the same year. He invalided home in April, 1808; and during the after part of the war (with the exception of a few months passed in 1809 on board the Dannemark 74, Capt. Jas. Bisset) was employed in command, on the Home station, of the Weazle hired schooner. Poll hired cutter, and Ant and Mistletoe schooners. From 6 Feb. until 13 Sept. 1617 he commanded the Nimble and Badger Revenue-cruizers off Dover and Harwich; he filled an appointment in the Water Guard from 15 Oct. until 22 Nov. 1822; and from 1 June, 1839, until 2 Feb. 1843, and again from 22 March, 1847, until the early part of 1848, he had charge of the Semaphore stations at Chelsea and Haslemere.
WILLIAMS. (Lieutenant, 1824.)
Lawrence Blount Williams entered the Navy 12 June, 1812; and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 10 Aug. 1824. With the exception of an appointment in the Coast Guard, which he held for a short time in 1838-9, he has not been since employed.
He is married and has issue.
WILLIAMS. (Lieutenant, 1826.)
Poulton Williams entered the Navy 13 April, 1812; passed his examination in 1820; and obtained his commission 11 Feb. 1826. He has since been on half-pay.
WILLIAMS. (Lieutenant, 1840.)
Richard Williams entered the Navy 4 Nov. 1824; passed his examination in 1831; and, as a reward for his services on the coast of Syria and at the bombardment of St. Jean d’ Acre, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 4 Nov. 1840. His succeeding appointments were – 15 Dec. 1840, to the Thunderer 84, Capts. Maurice Fred. Fitzhardinge Berkeley and Daniel Pring, in the Mediterranean – 14 Feb. 1843, to the Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir David Milne at Plymouth – 12 May, 1843, to the Curaçoa 24, Capt. Thos. Sabine Pasley, fitting for South America, where he was superseded in April, 1845 – and, 2 Feb. 1846, to the Albion 90, Capts. Nicholas Lockyer and Chas. Howe Fremantle, with whom he served in the Channel and Mediterranean until paid off at the commencement of 1847.
WILLIAMS. (Lieut., 1813. f-p., 17; h-p., 24.)
Richard Nicholls Williams entered the Navy, 22 May, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Sampson 64, Capt. Wm. Cuming, in which ship he visited Rio de Janeiro and the Rio de la Plata, and thence proceeded to the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena. On his return he joined, in May, 1807, the Inflexible 64, Capt. Joshua Rowley Watson, lying in Gillingham Reach. In the following month he removed to the Cyane 22, Capt. Thos. Staines; and in Feb. 1808, after having served as Midshipman in the expedition against Copenhagen, he was received on board the Volage 22, Capt. Philip L. J. Rosenhagen, with whom, and with Capt. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, he continued employed in the Resistance 38, on the Mediterranean station, from Aug. 1810 until presented in Jan. 1814 with a commission bearing date 3 Nov. 1813. He assisted, while in the Volage, at the capture of Le Requin French national brig of 16 guns and 110 men, at the defence of Sicily against the threatened invasion of Murat, and at the reduction of the islands of Ischia and Procida; and was engaged in a variety of skirmishes and boat-attacks on the coast of Italy. When in company, in the Resistance, with the Edinburgh 74, Impérieuse 38, and Swallow, Éclair, and Pylades sloops, he aided in silencing the fire of several batteries at Port d’Anzo, where a convoy of 29 vessels fell into the hands of the British. From Dec. 1814 until 10 Dec. 1815 Mr. Williams served in the Channel and West Indies in the Goldfinch 10, Capt. John Foote; he was employed in the Transport service (he made two voyages to the Pacific) from 1827 until 1829; and from 15 June, 1831, until the summer of 1834, and from 30 Nov. 1838 until Sept. 1840, he commanded the Royalist 10 and Lightning steamer. In the former vessel, the Royalist, he was stationed in the river Douro, at St. Ube’s, for the protection of British interests. On leaving Oporto he received an address from the British merchants, and the thanks of the British Consul. He gained the acknowledgments, also, of the British Vice-Consul at St. Ube’s, and received a letter from Rear-Admiral Wm. Parker, the Commander- in-Chief, expressive of his approbation “of the zeal with which the important duties intrusted to him had been executed.” During his command of the Lightning, Mr. Williams had the honour of conveying the Queen Dowager from the Hastings 72, at Spithead, into Portsmouth Harbour. He accompanied next the Firebrand steamer, with the suite of the Grand-Duke of Russia, from Deptford to Rotterdam; and he conveyed the Grand-Duke Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and family, with the Prince Leiningen, from Portsmouth to Lisbon – the latter personage back to Plymouth, and afterwards from Woolwich to Ostend – the Duchess of Braganza from Hamburgh to Woolwich – and the Grand-Duke Ferdinand and family again from Woolwich to Ostend. On the latter occasion the Lightning, previously to her departure from Woolwich, was visited by Her Majesty the Queen, by the Duchess of Kent, and by the King and Queen of the Belgians. Before she sailed, as above, from Lisbon, Mr. Williams was presented at the hands of Prince Leiningen, and by the desire of the Queen of Portugal, with the Order of the Tower and Sword. He was appointed, 3 Aug. 1846, to the Caledonia 120, Capt. Manley Hall Dixon, at Devonport; and since 28 Jan. 1848 he has been serving there in the Agincourt 72, depôt-ship of Ordinary.
Lieut. Williams is married.
WILLIAMS. (Lieutenant, 1825.)
Samuel Williams entered the Navy 16 June, 1813; passed his examination in 1819; and was made Lieutenant, 12 Jan. 1825, into the Eden 26, Capt. John Lawrence, on the West India station, whence he returned about the close of the same year. From 17 Oct. 1828 until 6 Feb. 1832 he was employed on particular service in the Dispatch 18, Capts. Wm. Bohun Bowyer and Edw. Augustus Frankland. He has since been on half-pay. Agent – J. Chippendale.
WILLIAMS. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 18; h-p., 35.)
Thomas Williams died about the commencement of 1849.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1794, as Midshipman, on board the Minotaur 74, Capt. Thos. Louis, in which ship he cruized in the Channel, fought at the battle of the Nile, and continued employed as Master’s Mate in the Mediterranean until there nominated Acting-Lieutenant, 29 April, 1800, of the Florentina, Capt. Broughton. In June, 1802, he returned to England. He served during the late war on the Mediterranean, West India, Baltic, and Home stations in the Britannia 100, Capt. (afterwards Rear-Admiral) the Earl of Northesk. Leopard, Ambuscade, and Canopus, bearing each the flag of Sir Thos. Louis, Hercule 74 and Veteran 64, flag-ships of Vice-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres, Éclair sloop, Capt. Quash, Brunswick 74, Capt. Thos. Graves, Mars, Superb, and Milford 74’s, all flag-ships of Sir Rich. Goodwin Keats, Duncan 74, Capt. Robt. Lambert, Ville de Paris 110, bearing the flag of Sir Harry Burrard Neale, and Bombay Castle 74. In the Canopus he was present in the action off St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806. He served as Flag-Lieutenant on board the Mars from 23 March until 11 June, 1808; and on 27 June, 1814, having been so employed in the Bombay
