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Browse officers in command: A - B; C - E; F - G; H - K; L - O; P - R; S - T; U - Z; ??
| William Simpson Blount R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Son of Webster Blount (1748-1814) | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| 1800 | Born (probably while his father was Dutch vice-consul at Tangier) | ||
| 12 October 1836 | Married (at Falmouth, Cornwall, England) Leonara Anne (1809-1863), daughter of John Clavell R.N. | ||
| 16 June 1843 | Died (shot himself in his water closet at his home in Greenwich while his wife and children were visiting her father at the Naval Hospital - from Maidstone & Kentish Journal, 20 June 1843 ). | ||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 31 May 1824 | Lieutenant | ||
| 23 November 1841 | Commander | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| 9 November 1835 | 11 January 1838 | Lieutenant and commander in Hermes (from commissioning at Woolwich), Mediterranean mail packet | |
| 29 May 1838 | 5 October 1840 | Lieutenant and commander in Hermes, Mediterranean mail packet | |
| May 1840 | August 1840 | Lieutenant and commander in Vesuvius, for trials and various troop tramsports, temporarily from Hermes | |
| (1 December 1840) | 22 November 1841 | Lieutenant and commander in Pluto (from commissioning until paying off at Woolwich), west coast of Africa (made a anti-slave trade treaty with King Bell, of the Bell River in the Cameroons on 7 March 1841) | |
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