A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Carter, Thomas Gilbert
CARTER. (Lieut., 1808. f-p., 18; h-p., 33.)
Thomas Gilbert Carter entered the Royal Naval Academy at Portsmouth 6 June, 1796, and embarked, 11 Oct. 1800, as a Volunteer, on board the Ganges 74, Capts. Thos. Fras. Fremantle, Jos. Baker, and Geo. M‘Kinley, in which ship, after participating with the first-named officer, as Midshipman, in the battle of Copenhagen, 2 April, 1801, he proceeded to the West Indies. In July, 1803, he removed to the Euryalus 36, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood, and next to the Utrecht 64, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Patton, both on the Home station. He sailed for the East Indies, in 1804, on board the Culloden 74, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. Pellew; there became, 14 Jan. 1806, Acting-Lieutenant of the Albion 74, Capt. John Ferrier; and, on his return home with convoy in the Monmouth 64, Capt. Edw. Durnford King, was officially promoted, 23 Aug. 1808. His subsequent appointments afloat were, 26 Oct. 1808, to the Mercurius 16, Capt. Thos. Renwick, whom he accompanied to the Baltic, and, 2 Feb. 1810, to the Orion 74, Capt. Sir Archibald Collingwood Dickson, stationed in the North Sea. From April to Aug. following Mr. Carter appears to have been confined, as an invalid, to Yarmouth Hospital. He afterwards commanded a Signal Station in the co. of Essex, from 21 March, 1811, to 21 Dec. 1814, but since the latter date has been unemployed.