THOMAS MONCK MASON, Esq.
[Captain of 1828.]
Obtained his first commission in Mar. 1807; was appointed to the America 74, Captain (now Sir Josias) Rowley, July 9th, 1812; and flag-lieutenant to the same officer, in the Impregnable 98, Mar. 25th, 1815; promoted to the rank of commander, June 13th in the latter year; appointed to the Victory 104, bearing the flag of Sir Robert Stopford, and commanded by Captain the Hon. George Elliot, at Portsmouth, May 12th, 1827; and advanced to his present rank. May 12th, 1828.
Captain Mason married, Nov. 26th, 1823, Mary, eldest daughter of the Hon. Sir George Grey, then Commissioner of Portsmouth Dock-yard.
Agent.– J. Copland, Esq.
RICHARD DICKINSON, Esq.
[Captain of 1828.]
A Companion of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath; Knight of the Royal French Order of St. Louis; and Knight (2nd class) of the Imperial Russian Order of St. Anne.
This officer is the son of the late Mr. R. Dickinson, of Bambrough, co. Northumberland, a Master in the royal navy; and was born about the year 1786. He entered the service at the early age of twelve years; obtained the rank of lieutenant in Aug. 1806; and was appointed to the Loire frigate, Aug. 1, 1808. In Feb. 1809, he assisted in capturing la Hebe, French national ship, of 20 guns (pierced for 34) and 160 men. In 1810, he was present at the reduction of Guadaloupe. In 1811, he had a narrow escape from shipwreck on the coast of Holland[1]. And, during the late war with America, he was most actively employed on the Halifax station; where the Loire, then commanded by Captain Thomas Brown, captured the Rolla privateer, of 5 guns and 80 men. His next appointments were. May 27th, 1815, to the North-
