Biscay; and the chivalrous Hewett, who won the Victoria
Cross in the Crimea and was knighted for his services as
ambassador to King John of Abyssinia, and who, after
commanding the Queen's yacht, died lamented as Admiral
Hewett. Besides these there were many genial and gallant
merchant captains, among them Halpin, who afterwards commanded
the Great Eastern while laying ocean cables; and
famous war correspondents—Hon. Francis C. Lawley, M.P.,
correspondent of the London Times, and Frank Vizitelli of
the London Illustrated News, afterwards murdered in the