Francois hamelin biography

French admiral (–)

Ferdinand-Alphonse Hamelin (2 September – 10 January ), Frenchadmiral, was born in Pont-l'Évêque, Normandy.

He was the nephew of Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, a successful rear admiral in the French Navy of the Napoleonic era.

Francois hamelin biography

Early career

Hamelain went to sea in as cabin boy with his uncle, Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, on the frigateVénus in the era of Napoleon and the French Empire. The Vénus was part of the French squadron in the Indian Ocean during the Mauritius Campaign of , and young Hamelin had an opportunity of seeing much active service.

She, in company with another and a smaller vessel, captured the English frigate Ceylon in , but was immediately afterwards captured herself by the Boadicea, under CommodoreJosias Rowley (–). Young Hamelin was a prisoner of war for a short time.^[1]

Career after the First French Empire fell

He returned to France in On the fall of the Empire he had better for