1813, to serve with the force employed on the German rivers under the command of Capt. Arthur Farquhar, Mr. Haultain was nominated for that purpose the Senior officer of a flotilla of 12 gunboats; in discharging the duties of which post he underwent for several months many very severe hardships. During that period he frequently came into close contact with the enemy, but especially on one occasion in the month of Sept. ____, when he made a vigorous, although, from unforeseen circumstances, an unsuccessful attack on eight Danish vessels lying at Busum, a small and intricate harbour near the mouth of the Elbe – a service which procured him the thanks of Capt. Farquhar. He afterwards co-operated and displayed great merit at the reduction of the strong forts of Blexen and Bremerlehe in the Weser, and of Cuxhaven in the Elbe;[1] besides serving as a volunteer at the headquarters of the Crown Prince of Sweden; and subsequently on shore at the siege of Glückstadt.[2] As a reward for his conduct in the latter occasion he was advanced to the rank of Commander 15 June, 1814, and, in 1819, presented with the Swedish gold medal. The K.H. was conferred on him 1 Jan. 1833, but he was never able to procure further employment.
Commander Haultain was the originator and compiler of the ‘New Navy List’ – the editorship of which, since his decease, has passed into the hands of the talented Mr. Allen, of Greenwich Hospital. He married, 13 Aug. 1814, Eliza, daughter of – Saward, Esq., of Thorp Hall, Prittlewell, co. Essex. Agents – Coplands and Burnett.
HAWES. (Commander, 1828. f-p., 20; h-p., 19.)
Edward Hawes entered the Navy, 15 July, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Alonzo sloop, Capt. Wm. Buckley Hunt, fitting at Deptford. In the following month he removed with the same officer to the Britomart 10, and in that vessel (with the exception of an attachment of a few months in 1813-14 .to the Orion 74, Capt. Sir Arch. Collingwood Dickson) he continued to serve, latterly with the present Capt. Robt. Riddell Carre, until Oct. 1816. During that period Mr. Hawes, who at the early age even of 13 was intrusted with the charge of a prize, attended as Midshipman the expedition to the Scheldt, and saw a vast deal of active service on the North Sea and Baltic stations. Among the numerous detached operations in which he bore an active and prominent part, we may enumerate the destruction of several privateers and gun-vessels, in the Vlie Passage, in May, 1810; the proximate cutting out, by two of the Britomart’s boats, of L’Intrépide privateer of about 8 guns and 40 men, from under the fire of an enemy’s battery, and within sight of several armed ships; and the boarding and carrying, off Heligoland, 17 July, 1812, of L’Eole, another privateer, pierced for 14, but carrying only 6 guns, with a complement of 31 men, which vessel did not surrender until she had sustained a loss of 2 slain and 7 wounded, and had killed 3 and wounded 10 of the crews belonging to the British boats. In the summer of 1811 we find Mr. Hawes, while in the execution of his duty, receiving so severe an injury in the right eye that its effects have since nearly deprived him of the sight. For his subsequent services, as Master’s Mate, at the battle of Algiers he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant by commission dated 16 Sept. 1816; and he was afterwards appointed – 1 Nov. 1821, to the Andromache frigate, bearing the broad pendants at the Cape of Good Hope of Commodores Joseph Nourse and Constantine Richard Moorsom – 6 Oct. 1825, to the Beagle 10, Capt. Pringle Stokes, attached to the force in South America, whence he invalided in Aug. 1826 – and 9 March, 1827, as Senior, to the Weasel 10, Capts. John Burnet Dundas, and Hon. Wm. Wellesley, on the Mediterranean station. While under Commodore Moorsom Mr. Hawes was despatched from the Cape in charge of the York, a small tender of only 30 tons, for the purpose of ascertaining the fate of a party who had gone some time before to form a settlement on the east coast of Africa, and who had not since been heard of. By dint of steady perseverance, and the exercise of the most seamanlike conduct, he overcame the obstacles offered to his progress by a succession of south-east gales, accompanied by heavy seas and strong currents, and contrived, in his mere epitome of a ship, fully to carry out the object of his mission – having the good fortune ultimately to find those of whom he had been sent in quest at Port Natal, where, owing to the loss of their vessel, they had been cut off from all means of communication. The York then returned to the Cape, which she reached in safety, long after every hope had disappeared of her having been able to survive the tempestuous weather she had encountered. The Andromache was at the time on the eve of sailing for England, and the vacancy supposed to have been occasioned by the death of Mr. Hawes had actually been filled up. On 18 Aug. 1828 our officer was promoted to the command of the Philomel 10, in which sloop he served in the Mediterranean until paid off, 15 June, 1829. From the latter date he appears to have remained unemployed until 23 April, 1842, when we find him receiving the appointment of Principal Agent for Transports in China; the harassing, and in some cases the delicate duties attached to which office (until the transport shipping had been all finally disposed of) he continued to discharge, with a zeal for the service, and a degree of activity, prudence, and judgment, that elicited the warmest thanks of his Commander-in-Chief, Sir Thos. John Cochrane. He returned to England in Sept. 1843, and since 21 May, 1844, has been Superintendent of the Packet Service at Portpatrick, with his name on the books of the Royal Sovereign yacht.
Commander Hawes married, 6 Oct. 1829, Mary Ann Cornelius, daughter of his old Captain, Wm. Buckley Hunt, who died in Nov. 1812, by whom he has issue five children. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
HAWKE. (Lieutenant, 1844.)
Bladen Edward Hawke, born 14 March, 1820, is second and youngest son of the Hon. Martin Bladen Edw. Hawke, by Hannah, only daughter of Thos. Nisbet, Esq., of Mersington; and first-cousin of the present Lord Hawke.
This officer entered the Navy 4 Nov. 1833; passed his examination 18 Nov. 1839; studied next for many months at the Royal Naval College; and from the early part of 1842, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 24 Feb. 1844, served as Mate of the Thalia 42, Capt. Chas. Hope, on the East India station. He then, until the following summer, officiated as Additional of the Agincourt 72, flagship of Sir Thos. John Cochrane; but has since been on half-pay.
HAWKER. (Rear-Admiral of the Red, 1837.)
Edward Hawker is son of Capt. Jas. Hawker, R.N., who commanded the Hero 74, and was with the squadron under Commodore Johnstone when attacked by M. de Suffrein, at Porto Praya, in 1781.
This officer (whose name had been borne since 28 May, 1786, on the books of the Pegasus 28, commanded by H.R.H. Prince Wm. Henry, Powerful 74, and Impregnable 98, Capt. Sir Thos. Byard) successively became Midshipman, in 1793, of the Pegasus, and of the Swiftsure 74, each commanded by Capt. Chas. Boyles, under whom he was nominated, 14 July, 1796, Lieutenant of the Raisonnable 64. His other appointments, in the latter capacity, were – 22 July. 1799, and 2 Oct. 1800, to the Spitfire sloop, Capt. Michael Seymour, and Garland 28, Capt. Robt. Honyman, both on the Channel station – 13 June, 1801, as Senior, to the Thames 32, Capt. Aiskew Paffard Hollis, in which frigate, after witnessing, we believe. Sir Jas. Saumarez’ action of 12 and 13 July following in the Gut of Gib-
