2-914-086 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Captain Hall, R.N., F.R.S., 1854. British naval officer who '...distinguished himself by his bravery in the expedition to the Baltic...[He] was appointed to the command of the H E I.C's war-steamer Nemesis. The services rendered by Captain Hall on board this vessel in the China seas are matter of notoriety, and...obtained for him in the Navy the name of "Nemesis Hall"...At the commencement of the present [Crimean] war, Capt. Hall commissioned the Hecla steam-sloop, and joined the Baltic Fleet...The iron bilge-tanks, now in use in the Royal Navy, and the patent anchor bearing his name, are of his invention...In 1847 Captain Hall was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society...The accompanying Portrait is a correct likeness of Captain W. Hall, from a portrait presented to the Dover Sailors' Home, In the prosperity of which Captain Hall was much interested'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.