Sackett HOPE

Bef 1799 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Sackett HOPE
  Birth	Bef 26 Nov 1799
  Christening	26 Nov 1799	St Mary, Sandwich, Kent   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Reference Number	3031
  _UID	3D1D5E252A834B8FBF572F9068EE594B33C0
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Notes	Per Cliff Minter, Sackett became a Vice Admiral. A website (www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=370) gives the date of his entry to the Royal Navy as 2 November 1814 and his retirement date, as a Vice Admiral, as 2 April 1866. The following is an official statement of Sackett Hope's naval career and was sent to me by Avice Marshall, May 2010. HOPE. (Captain, 1840. F-P., 22; H-P., 11.) Sackett Hope is brother of the present John Minter Hope, Esq., Paymaster and Purser, R.N. (1814); and of Lieut.. Thomas. Hope (a), R.N. (1825), an officer who entered the service in 1809, and was in almost constant employment from that period until 1838, when he was lost in command of HM schooner PINCHER, with all on board, while working into Spithead. This officer entered the Navy, 2 Nov. 1814, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the ICARUS 10, Capt. Thos. Barker Devon, which vessel, after serving in the Channel, escorted Napoleon Bonaparte to St. Helena, and was then sent with despatches to the Isle of France and Calcutta. On joining the LIVERPOOL 50, Capt. Fras. Augustus Collier, he accompanied an expedition sent, in 1819, against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, where he assisted at the bombardment and destruction of Ras-al-Khyma, their principal stronghold, and was very actively employed both in the gun-boats and on shore. After visiting China and various parts of India, and passing through scenes of great mortality, he returned to England in 1822 on board the GANGES 84, a new teak-built ship. Having passed his examination in Nov. of the previous year, he was then appointed Mate of the GLOUCESTER 74, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen in the West Indies, on which station we find him cruizing in a tender, off the island of Cuba, for the suppression of piracy and the slave-trade. On his arrival home, Mr Hope attended the Duke of Clarence on a summer cruize in the ROYAL SOVEREIGN yacht, Capt. Chas. Adam, and went to the Lords of the Admiralty on a visit of inspection to Plymouth. While next attached, during a period of a few months, to the BRISK 10, Capt. Chas. Hope, he served in the North Sea and Channel, and was occasionally detached in the boats of that vessel for the suppression of smuggling. Between Feb. 1825 and Oct. 1826, he again served in the West Indies on board the FERRET and SCYLLA sloops, both commanded by Capt. Wm. Hobson. In the boats of the former vessel he once assisted in taking a slaver; and was in her at a period of so much sickness that 12 out of 75 were all who were enabled to remain on board. During the whole term of his attachment to the SCYLLA, a period of seven months, Mr Hope had charge of a watch, and was twice invested with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant. On 11 Dec. 1826, shortly after his rejunction to the FERRET, he was promoted to be her First-Lieutenant - a rank in which he was afterwards appointed - 25 May 1828, to the ARACHNE 18, Capt. Henry Smith - 30 Aug. in the same year, to the FERRET again, Capt. Chas. Deare, with whom he returned home from the West Indies, much impaired in health, and was paid off in the following Nov. - 11 July 1832 (after many ineffectual attempts to procure employment) to the BEACON surveying-vessel, Capt. Rich. Copeland, on the Mediterranean station - and, 15 July 1836, to the INCONSTANT 36, Capts. John Hayes and Dan. Pring. In April 1833, Lieut. Hope took command of the boats of the BEACON, manned by 36 officers and men, and of a gun-boat with 5 Turks on board, and contrived to effect the capture, near the island of Thasos, not, however, without opposition, of 140 out of a notorious band of 200 armed pirates, who had become the terror of the Grecian Archipelago. Prize was at the same time made of seven of their vessels. In consequence of the detention of Capt. Copeland at Malta from ill health, Lieut. Hope, in the spring of 1836, was entrusted with the duty of navigating the BEACON to England. On his arrival he was immediately ordered to Greenock to volunteer men for the fleet. After that service had been accomplished he was paid off 4 June 1836; and on the next day he received instructions to recommission the BEACON. On his removal, as above, to the INCONSTANT, we find him employed in experimentally cruizing, also in performing Particular Service, and in carrying troops to North America. In Dec 1838, having attained the rank of Commander on 28 of the previous June, he went on half-pay, on which he continued until appointed, 10 May 1839, Second Captain of the REVENGE 76, Capt. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave. In that ship he was at first stationed off Lisbon, and then sent to the Mediterranean, where he partook of the operations on the coast of Syria, and was present at the bombardment of St Jean d'Acre. He was in consequence advanced to Post-rank 4 Nov. 1840; and, since Jan. 1841, when he left the REVENGE, has been on half-pay. Capt. Hope is in the receipt of a pension of 6? per annum for a very severe injury he sustained in the left hand, attended with the loss of a finger, while endeavouring, in HMS LIVERPOOL, to clear a seaman, who by some accident had been jammed. 1851 census: at 3 Marine Place, St James Dover, Sackett (51, Capt. Royal Navy, half pay, born Sandwich), Sarah D (32, born Deal), Fanny E (10 months, born Dover) and a nurse Agnes A Beal (17, born Whitstable).
  Person ID	I3031	Ash, Kent
  Last Modified	25 May 2010

  
  

  Father	Thomas HOPE
  Mother	Ann Minter,   b. Bef 24 Jan 1765, Ash, Kent d. Bef 7 Sep 1829 (Age ~ 64 years)
  Family ID	F862	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Dixson BOXER,   b. Abt 1819, Deal, Kent d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	10 Oct 1846	St Mary Dover, Kent   [2]
  	Sackett Hope, full age, bachelor, Capt. RN of Lambeth, Surrey, father Thomas Hope merchant and Sarah Dixson Boxer, full age, spinster, Snargate Street, father James Boxer, Captn RN.
  Family ID	F352	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Sep 2009

  
  

• Sources

  [S4] IGI. [S76] Cliff Minter November 2006, from St Mary Dover PR.