Obtained his first commission in Feb. 1819; and subsequently served under Captain Adam M‘Kenzie, in the Superb 78, on the Plymouth station. He was made a commander July 22d, 1830; appointed to the Donegal 78, Captain Arthur Fanshawe, Aug. 22d, 1833; and paid off from that ship, on her return from Portugal with the Infante Don Carlos of Spain, his family and suite, passengers, in the summer of 1834.