Abraham Hamilton Lindesay

Lieutenant Abraham Hamilton Lindesay, R.N. (6 April, 1852 – 17 April, 1888) served in the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

After preparatory study at Stubbington House School, Lindesay was one forty-eight successful candidates who presented themselves for competitive examinations on 6-8 December, 1865 and was awarded a Naval Cadetship in the January, 1866 intake term at Britannia. He placed third in order of merit.

Lindesay was specially promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, dated 16 September, 1873 for his gallantry in being dangerously wounded alongside William Rooke Creswell in a pirate attack on boats of the gun vessel Midge at Laroot River (now more commonly spelled "Larut"), just south of Penang on 15 September. The Royal Navy was not to suffer such attacks, however, and H.M.S. Thalia captured a pirate stockade on the river before the 24th.

Lindesay commanded the destroyer Cygnet in the Mediterranean from September 1885 until she paid off on 15 March 1887. Following a brief stint on full pay leave, he was appointed in command of the flatiron gunboat Plucky for the Jubilee Review. Immediately thereafter, he was appointed in command of the wooden gunboat Cherub.

After less than a year in command of Cherub, Lindesay died at Portland Sick Quarters from meningitis.

See Also

• Service Records

Bibliography

Naval Appointments
Preceded by Alexander M. Gardiner	Captain of H.M.S. Cygnet 5 Sep, 1885 – 15 Mar, 1887	Succeeded by ?
Preceded by ?	Captain of H.M.S. Plucky 7 Jul, 1887 – 14 Aug, 1887	Succeeded by John E. T. Harper
Preceded by John L. Burr	Captain of H.M.S. Cherub 14 Aug, 1887 – 17 Apr, 1888	Succeeded by John L. Marx