MARK JOHN CURRIE, Esq.
Harbour Master at Swan River.
[Commander.]
This officer passed his examination at Portsmouth about July 1814; obtained his first commission on the 23d Sept. following; and was promoted to his present rank, while serving on the East India station, Jan. 9th, 1823. He married, Jan. 14th, 1829, Jane, third daughter of the late Charles Boynton Wood, Esq.
WILLIAM BOXER, Esq.
[Commander.]
Brother to Captains James and Edward Boxer, R.N. He was made a lieutenant on the 30th April, 1810; and promoted to his present rank Jan. 15th, 1823, for great exertions in the suppression of smuggling on the coast of Sussex. He is now inspecting commander of the coast guard at Dunfanhagy, in Ireland.
ARTHUR MORRELL, Esq.
[Commander.]
Son of a deceased naval lieutenant, and brother to Commander John Arthur Morrell.
This officer passed his examination about April 1808; obtained his first commission on the 28th July 1809; served for some time on board the Ocean 98, Captain Robert Plampin; and for upwards of four years, as first lieutenant of the Termagant 20, successively commanded by the late Captains John Lampen Manley and Charles Shaw, on the Mediterranean and East India stations. In that ship he was present at the capture of Genoa, in April 1814. His next appointment was, in Jan. 1818, to the Dorothea hired ship, Captain David Buchan, fitting out for the discovery of a northern communication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The result of that enterprise will be seen by reference to Vol. III. Part I. pp. 86–89. He subsequently served as first lieutenant of the Revolutionnaire frigate. Captain the Hon. Fleet-
