the town of Leogane, St. Domingo. After serving for upwards of three years in the Channel and on the coast of Ireland in the Unité frigate, Capt. Chas. Rowley, and Caesar 80, Capts. R. Home and Sir Jas. Saumarez, Mr. Howe joined the America 64, which ship, bearing the flag of Sir Wm. Parker, struck, 13 Dec. 1800, upon the Formigas rocks, and was rendered unfit for further service. He then became attached in succession to the St. Albans 64, Capt. John Okes Hardy, flag-ship at Halifax, and Pheasant 16, Capt. Henry Carew; and in the latter vessel he was employed throughout the summer of 1801 in blockading an enemy’s ship, Le Berceau, lying in the port of Boston. From May, 1802, until Dec. 1805, we find him serving on board the Leviathan 74, at first under Sir John Duckworth in the West Indies (where he beheld the capture of the national vessels, La Mignonne and La Supérieure), and then under Capt. Henry Wm. Bayntun in the Mediterranean; on which station he had the fortune to participate in the battle of Trafalgar. In Jan. 1806 Mr. Howe, who had been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 28 May, 1803, was appointed to the Renown 74, Capt. Philip Chas. Durham. Towards the close of the same year, having been intermediately employed in blockading the port of Rochefort, he returned to the Mediterranean, and was there very actively employed until March, 1810. In Oct. 1809 he united in the pursuit which led to the self-destruction, near Cape Cette, of the French ships of the line Robuste and Lion. On leaving the Renown, Lieut. Howe became First of the Theseus 74, Capt. Wm. Prowse, under whom, with the exception of a voyage made to St. Helena for the purpose of bringing home an East India convoy, he served on the North Sea station until Dec. 1813. The ship he next joined was the Newcastle 50, Capt. Lord Geo. Stuart, stationed off the coast of North America, where he further served as Senior Lieutenant, from Feb. 1814 until compelled to invalid from the effects of rheumatism in Jan. 1815. His last appointments were – 2 Oct. 1827 and 27 March, 1828, to the successive command of the Sprightly and Greyhound Revenue-vessels, the latter of which he left in Oct. 1830 – 16 Sept. 1831, to the command of the Onyx, on the Cork station, where he remained until paid off in Nov. 1832 – and 13 Nov. 1833, to an Agency for Transports Afloat. He left the latter service in June, 1844.
Lieut. Howe married, 15 April, 1815, Elizabeth, relict of Robt. Carpenter, Esq., of Bradford, co. Somerset, by whom he has issue two sons and one daughter. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
HOWELL. (Commander, 1816. f-p., 16; h-p., 32.)
Joseph Benjamin Howell, is brother-in-law of Capt. Wm. Blight, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, in April, 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Success 32, Capt. Shuldham Peard. Continuing in that frigate until captured, 13 Feb. 1801, by a French squadron under M. Ganteaume, he was for nearly the whole of the time employed at the blockade of Malta, and assisted at the taking, 18 Feb. and 24 Aug. 1800, of the French 74-gun ship Le Généreux, and 40-gun frigate La Diane. On his release from captivity in March, 1801, he was nominated Midshipman of the Hector 74, Capts. Thos. Elphinstone and Wm. Skipsey, and after participating in the operations connected with the Egyptian expedition, he successively joined the Woolwich 44, Capt. Rich. Bridges, Gladiator, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral John Holloway, Blenheim 74, Capt. Bouverie, and Prévoyante store-ship, Master-Commander Wm. Brown; and he was next, between May, 1803, and Sept. 1805, employed under Lords Northesk and Gardner, in the Britannia 100, Hibernia 110, and Trent frigate, on the Channel and Irish stations. On 21 Oct. 1805 Mr. Howell was confirmed to the rank of Sub-Lieutenant in the Turbulent gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Spearing Osmer, lying at Plymouth. The 22 of the following Jan. was marked by his promotion to a full Lieutenancy in the Gibraltar 80, Capts. Wm. Lukin, Willoughby Thos. Lake, John Halliday, Jas. Johnstone, and Henry Lidgbird Ball, with whom we find him continuously serving on the Channel station until appointed, 27 April, 1808, to the Dryad 36, Capts. Adam Drummond and Edw. Galwey. During the whole of the siege of Flushing in 1809, he officiated on shore in command of a party of seamen attached to General Houston’s brigade. On that occasion he superintended the erection of a battery of 6 24-pounders, and while in command of it had one Master’s Mate and more than half his men killed. The exertions of Mr. Howell on this service were so conspicuous as to obtain for him an earnest recommendation to notice.[1] When afterwards on the north coast of Spain, he was detached for a period of 21 days in an open Spanish boat with 25 men, for the purpose of stopping the enemy’s supplies. While on the same station he contrived, with the boats of a squadron under his orders, to effect the destruction of 20 large guns mounted on different batteries. On 26 Feb. 1814 he witnessed the capture of the French frigate La Clorinde, of 44 guns. The Dryad, of which he had been three years First-Lieutenant, being paid off in April, 1814, he was next, in Oct. 1815 and March, 1816, appointed in a similar capacity to the Eridanus 36, and Minden 74, both commanded by Capt. Wm. Paterson. The part taken by Mr. Howell in the latter ship at the bombardment of Algiers, was rewarded with a Commander’s commission dated 16 Sept. 1816. He has since been on half-pay.
Commander Howell married, 1 Oct. 1823, Patience Blackburrow, youngest daughter of the Rev. Wm. George, M. A., Vicar of North Petherton, co. Somerset, by whom he has issue two sons and three daughters. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
HOWES. (Commander, 1847. f-p., 34; h-p., 6.)
George Howes entered the Navy, 23 Jan. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Majestic 74, Capt. Geo. Hart, bearing the flag in the North Sea of Vice-Admiral Thos. Macnamara Russell. Between the following summer and March, 1809, we find him cruizing, part of the time on the Baltic station, in a small vessel commanded by Lieuts. C. C. Dobson and Thos. Mitchell. He was then employed for nine months off Greenwich under the flag of Hon. Sir Henry Edwin Stanhope; and from Dec. 1809 until Aug. 1814, he again served in the North Sea, as Midshipman of the Prospero sloop. The two following years were passed by Mr. Howes (whose first commission bears date 24 Feb. 1815) in the West Indies, as Master’s Mate, Acting-Master, and Supernumerary-Lieutenant, on board the Forester 18, Capt. Wm. Hendry. His subsequent appointments were – 9 June, 1821, 31 May, 1823, and 13 Feb. 1829, in the capacity last-mentioned, to the Severn, Ramillies, and Hyperion Coast Blockade ships, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch, Hugh Pigot, and Wm. Jas. Mingaye – 16 March, 1831, to the Coast Guard – and 22 June, 1843, and 17 Jan. 1846, to the command of the Mermaid and Ranger Revenue-vessels. He was advanced to his present rank 1 Jan. 1847; and is now on half-pay.
Commander Howes is married and has issue.
HOWNAM. (Lieut., 1809. f-p., 11; h-p., 33.)
Joseph Robert Hownam entered the Navy, 13 March, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Africaine 38, Capt. Thos. Manby, stationed in the North Sea; and in the early part of 1804 became Midshipman of the Lively 38, Capt. Graham Eden Hamond. On 5 of the following Oct. the latter frigate had 2 of her men killed and 5 wounded, at the capture, off Cape St. Mary, of three Spanish frigates, laden with treasure, and the destruction of a fourth; and in the course of 1805 we find her sustaining a self-sought and very spirited skirmish with the Spanish 74-gun ship Glorioso. On next
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1802, p. 1327.
