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 Death Announcements 1845-1854
| Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| | Surname | Johnston | | | First names | James Henry | | | Rank / occupation | Comptroller of Steamers |  | Unit | EIC | | | Death date | 5 May 1851 | | | Place of death | On his passage from Calcutta  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Date | Oct 1851 | | | Page number | 441 | | | Detail | On his passage from Calcutta, retired Commander James Henry Johnston, R.N. (1830), late Comptroller of Steamers of the E.I. Company's service. He entered the royal navy 1803, on board the Spartiate 74, in which he was present in the battle of Trafalgar. In 1809 he removed to the Ocean 98, the flagship of Lord Collingwood, who in the following year nominated him Lieutenant in the Canopus 80, in which he was confirmed by the Admiralty Feb. 16, 1810. He afterwards served in the Kite sloop, and in Jan. 1813 was appointed to the command of the Quail schooner; afterwards again to the Kite, and to the Leveret 10. He had been on half-pay of the royal navy since July, 1815. |
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