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Berners, on the Lisbon and Mediterranean stations. We subsequently find him appointed – 17 Aug. 1831, to the Britannia 120, Capts. Wm. Jas. Hope Johnstone and Peter Rainier – 21 Oct. 1832, to the Stag 46, Capt. Nicholas Lockyer, from which ship he invalided in consequence of a severe fracture of the leg, 9 Sept. 1833 – 19 July, 1834, to the North Star 28, Capt. Octavius Vernon Harcourt – 4 July, 1835, to the Dublin 50, bearing the flag of Sir Graham Eden Hamond – 12 Oct. 1835, to the Blonde 46, Commodore Fras. Mason – 29 March, 1838, as Senior Lieutenant, to the Andromache 28, Capt. Robt. Lambert Baynes – 13 May, 1839, to the Revenge 78, Capt. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave – 1 Nov. 1839, to the Howe 120, as Acting Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Robt. Waller Otway, Commander-in-Chief at the Nore – and, 1 Oct. 1840, to the Britannia 120, bearing the Flag of Sir John Ommanney. In those ships, Mr. Dick served on the Home, Lisbon, South American, North America and West India, and Mediterranean stations. He attained his present rank 23 Nov. 1841; and since 1 July, 1845, has been employed as an Inspecting Commander in the Coast Guard.
Commander Dick married, 7 Dec. 1843, Harriet, only daughter of the Rev. Chas. Baker, Vicar of Tilmanstone, co. Kent, sister of Lieut. Chas. Hougham Baker, R.N., and niece of Vice-Admiral the late Sir Thos. Baker, K.C.B., by whom he has issue a daughter [errata 1]
Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
DICK. (Captain, 1814. f-p., 19; h-p., 35.)
Thomas Dick entered the Navy, 21 Jan. 1793, as Midshipman, on board L’Aigle frigate, Capt. John Nicholson Inglefield; and, after assisting at the reduction of Corsica, removed, in June, 1794, to the Bedford 74, Capts. Robt. Mann and Davidge Gould, under the latter of whom we find him present in Hotham’s actions of 14 March and 13 July, 1795. In Sept. following he rejoined Captain, then Rear-Admiral, Mann, on board the Windsor Castle 98, also in the Mediterranean, where he continued until Dec. 1796; from which period he afterwards served, until 1799, in the Nassau 64, and Monarch 74, flag-ships in the North Sea of Vice-Admiral Rich. Onslow; under whom, in the Monarch, he bore a part in the battle off Camperdown, 11 Oct. 1797. On 11 March, 1799, Mr. Dick was promoted to a Lieutenancy in the Nemesis 98, Capt. Thos. Baker; subsequently to which he joined, 11 Oct. following, the Melpomene 44 Capt. Sir Chas. Hamilton, and witnessed the capture, 5 April, 1800, of the island of Goree. While on the African station, he assumed command, on the night of 3 Jan. 1801, of five boats, manned with 87 volunteers [errata 2] , for the purpose of surprising a corvette of 18 guns, and an armed schooner, anchored within the bar off Senegal. After a desperate struggle of 20 minutes, in which 11 men were killed, 18 wounded, and two boats sunk, Lieut. Dick and his party gallantly carried the corvette, Le Sénégal, which they eventually destroyed under a heavy fire of grape and musketry from the batteries.[1] With intermissions, the subject of this sketch continued to serve under Sir Chas. Hamilton in the Illustrious 74, Téméraire 98, and Tonnant 80, on the Channel and Cadiz stations, until July, 1810. On being promoted to the rank of Commander 21 Oct. following, he joined the Thisbe 28, bearing the flag of the same officer, and afterwards of the Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge, in the River Thames, where he remained until posted 7 June, 1814. He accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846.
Capt. Dick married, 20 June, 1820, Miss Katherine Martyr. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
DICKEN. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 28; h-p., 11.)
Henry Perry Dicken entered the Navy, 1 June, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Superb 74, Capt. Sam. Jackson, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Rich. Goodwin Keats, in which he witnessed the ensuing embarkation from Nyeborg of the Marquis de la Romana and his patriot army – was frozen up a whole winter at Gottenborg – and assisted at the siege of Flushing in Aug. 1809. After an attachment of four months to the Puissant 74, guard-ship at Portsmouth, he removed, in March, 1810, to the Kent 74, Capt. Thos. Rogers, on the Lisbon station. In Aug. following he rejoined Sir R. G. Keats, as Midshipman, in the Milford 74; from which ship, after intermediately serving with the flotilla at the siege of Cadiz, he followed the same officer, in July, 1811, into the Hibernia 110, on the Mediterranean station; where; during a subsequent employment of two years in the Franchise 36, Capt. Rich. Buck, he co-operated much with the patriots on the coast of Catalonia. Mr. Dicken, whom we next find officiating as Admiralty Midshipman and Master’s Mate of the Clorinde 40, Capt. Sam. Geo. Pechell, and of the Bellerophon 74, and Salisbury 50, flag-ships of his patron. Sir R. G. Keats, obtained his commission 7 March, 1815. His appointments have since been – 14 Sept. 1815, to the Hazard 16, Capt. John Cookesley, off Newfoundland – 13 Sept. 1816, to the Tiber 46, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres, in the Channel – 31 Jan; 1822, to the Coast Blockade, in which he served, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Severn 50, and Ramillies 74, both commanded by Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch, until 1825 – and, 11 Jan. 1830, 18 July, 1843, and 8 April, 1845, to the command of the Reindeer, Linnet, and Seagull packets, on the Falmouth station, in the last-mentioned of which he is at present employed.
Lieut. Dicken married, in June, 1833, Emily, youngest daughter of Henry Williams, Esq., of Falmouth, by whom he has issue. Agent- – Joseph Woodhead.
DICKENS. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 14; h-p., 34.)
Samuel Trevor Dickens, born 10 Feb. 1788, is son of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Sam. Dickens, Col.-Commandant, Royal Engineers.
This officer entered the Navy, 5 Aug. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Guerrier 74, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, employed in the Mediterranean; where, and on the Home station, he afterwards, until April, 1806, served; part of the time as Midshipman, on board the Courageux and Venerable 74’s, both commanded by Capt. Sam. Hood, Champion 24, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, Harpy 18, Capt. Edm. Heywood, Crescent 36, Capt. Lord W. Stuart, and Hibernia 110, flag-ship of Earl St. Vincent. He then, as Acting-Lieutenant of the Prince George 98, Capt. Geo. Losack, proceeded to the West Indies, where he was confirmed by commission dated 4 Aug. 1806. In Oct. 1807, Mr. Dickens joined the Eclipse 18, commanded off the coast of Portugal by Capt. G. A. Creyke; after which he appears to have been borne, from Feb. 1809, to Feb. 1812, on the books of the Trident 64, and Canopus 80, as Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admirals Sir Alex. Ball and Chas. Boyles. During that period he held the acting command, from May to Sept. 1809, of the Redwing 18, in the Adriatic, and, for some time, in 1811, of the Cephalus sloop, and Cerberus frigate, in the latter of which he conducted for several weeks the blockade of Corfu in face of a very superior force. His next appointment was, on 8 May, 1813, to the Ocean 98, Capt. Robt. Plampin, with whom he remained until appointed by Sir_ Edw. Pellew to the command, 24 Feb. 1814, of the Badger sloop. Commander Dickens, whose promotion obtained official sanction 5 April following. Invalided home on 17 Dec. in the same year; and has since been on half-pay.
He married, 9 Sept. 1819, Isabella, second daughter of Benj. Craven, Esq., of Colchester, and has issue five sons and one daughter. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
DICKENS. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Samuel Trevor Dickens passed his examination 7 Feb. 1843; and served, as Mate, on the Home and Mediterranean stations, in the St. Vincent 120,
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1801, p. 253.
