This officer was made a lieutenant on the 16th Aug. 1834; promoted to the rank of commander, June 7th, 1828; and paid off from the Erebus bomb, on his return home from the Mediterranean, July 20th, 1830.
REUBEN PAINE, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was wounded while serving as midshipman on board the Isis 50, Captain (afterwards Rear-Admiral) James Walker, at the battle of Copenhagen, April 2d, 1801; and again, as senior lieutenant of the Erebus rocket ship. Captain David E. Bartholomew, in the Potowmac river. North America, Sept 6th, 1814[1]. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in Jan. 1809; granted a pension of five shillings per diem, for wounds. May 28th, 1816; made a commander on the 19th June, 1828; and appointed to the coast guard service April 6th, 1831.
This officer married, Dec. 10th, 1817 Miss Cave, of Portsmouth.
JAMES JAMES, Esq.
[Commander.]
Obtained his first commission on the 16th Nov. 1790; and subsequently commanded the hired armed brig Alfred, the Eagle prison-ship, and the Buckingham, Matilda, and Argonaut hospital-ships, in the latter of which he continued, off Chatham, for nearly twenty-four years. He was made a commander on the 1st of July, 1828.
GEORGE FLOWER HERBERT, Esq.
[Commander.]
Eldest son of Joseph Herbert, Esq., President of the island of Montserrat.
This officer passed his examination in Oct. 1809; obtained his first commission on the 16th May, 1811; and subsequently served in the San Josef, first-rate, flag-ship of Lord
