A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Carter, Charles (b)
CARTER, K.W. (Lieutenant, 1800.)
Charles Carter died 1 Oct. 1845. This officer entered the Navy, in June, 1794, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Polyphemus 64, Capt. Geo. Lumsdaine, bearing the flag of Admiral Rich. Kingsmill on the Irish station, where we find him assisting, as Midshipman, at the capture in Oct. 1795 Dec. 1796, and Jan. 1797, of the Dutch 64-gun ship Overyssel, the French privateer Les Deux Amis, of 14 guns and 80 men, and the 44-gun frigate La Tortue. He was promoted, 23 Sept. 1800, to be a Lieutenant of the Albion sloop, Capt. Jas. Hills, in which ship he proceeded to the Baltic; and on joining, 11 April, 1801, the Asia, Capt. John Dawson, was wrecked, off Dover, in the course of the same year. His next appointment was, 4 Sept. 1804, to the command of the Firebrand fire-vessel; after which he was for some time employed in the Sea Fencibles at Chatham.
Lieut. Carter, who had been on half-pay since 1810, died Governor of the Naval Knights of Windsor. Agent – J. Hinxman.