​JAMISON. (Lieutenant, 1840.)

William Papillon Jamison entered the Navy 27 April, 1827; passed his examination in 1833; and obtained his commission 23 March, 1840. His succeeding appointments appear to have been – 30 May, 1840, as Additional-Lieutenant, to the Winchester 50, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Harvey in North America and the West Indies – 7 March, 1841, to the Pilot 16, Capt. Geo. Ramsay, on the same station – 29 Nov. 1842, to the Thunderbolt steam-vessel, Capt. Geo. Nathaniel Broke, under whom he served at the Cape of Good Hope, for some time as First-Lieutenant – 2 Sept. 1845, to the President 50, fitting at Portsmouth for the flag of Rear-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres – and, 4 Feb. 1846, again as Senior, to the Thunderbolt, Capt. Alex. Boyle, in which vessel he was wrecked in Algoa Bay in Feb. 1847.