Four: Paymaster C. E. P. Hall, Royal Navy

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (Chas. E. P. Hall, Clerk.); Baltic 1854-55 (Chas. E. P. Hall: Paymaster.) contemporarily engraved naming; China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Canton 1857 (Chas. E. P. Hall: Paymaster.) contemporarily engraved naming; St. Jean d’Acre 1840, silver, unnamed as issued, polished, minor edge bruising, otherwise nearly extremely fine (4) £1,200-£1,600

Charles Edward Phelps Hall was born in Malta on 29 December 1820 and joined H.M.S. Caledonia as a volunteer at Malta on 16 November 1836. A marginal note in the Muster Lists states that he served as a ‘Clerk’s Assistant’; and another notes that he was an ‘Assistant in Captain’s Office.’ He transferred to H.M.S. Rodney on 8 November 1839 as a Clerk’s Assistant, and was promoted to Clerk on 1 January 1840. He served in her during the operations on and off the coast of Syria, and at the bombardment of Acre on 11 November 1840, and ‘passed’ from (Petty Officer) Clerk to (Officer) Clerk on 7 March 1842. He joined H.M.S. Albion on 12 November 1843, and then H.M.S. Alert on 22 October 1847 as Acting Paymaster. He next joined H.M.S. Volcano on 7 December 1850, being advanced to Paymaster and Purser on 11 November 1851, and was ‘present in her boats in the first attack on Lagos in 1851’ (Allen’s Navy List refers).

After nine months on half pay he joined H.M.S. Basilisk on 24 January 1854, and served in her during the Baltic campaign, remaining in her until she was paid off on 5 December 1855. After 15 months on half pay he joined H.M.S. Transit on 6 March 1857, before transferring to H.M.S. Nankin for ‘special service’ on 30 August 1857, and served in her during the Second China War. After further service in various other ships he retired on 30 September 1862, and died in Plymouth on 21 June 1868.

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