A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Carthew, James
CARTHEW. (Vice-Admiral, of the White, 1841. f-p., 23; h-p., 44.)
James Carthew entered the Navy, 8 Dec. 1780, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Dunkirk, Capt. Chapman, lying at Plymouth; served, from 1782 to 1786, as Midshipman in the Syren 32, Capt. Wm. Carlyon, and Adamant 50, flag-ship of Sir R. Hughes in the West Indies; and, after a further attachment to the Carnatic 74, Capt. Peregrine Bertie, and Salisbury 50, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Milbank, on the Home and Newfoundland stations, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 4 Nov. 1790. He was next appointed – 18 April, 1793, to the Solebay 32, Capts. Wm. Hancock Kelly and Henry Wm. Bayntun, in the West Indies, where he served on shore at the capture of Martinique, in March, 1794 – 3 Nov. 1795, to the Mercury 28, Capt. Hon. Geo. Byng, on the Newfoundland station – and, 6 Dec. 1797, to the Irresistible 74, Capt. Geo. Martin, employed off Lisbon. On 4 June, 1798, Mr. Carthew was promoted to the command of the Rosario, which sloop, after attending, in 1799, the expedition to the Helder, and assisting at the destruction of two Dutch frigates and of the dockyard at Medenblik, was burnt, as a fire-vessel, in endeavouring to destroy a French squadron in Dunquerke Roads, 7 July, 1800.[1] Capt. Carthew, who attained Post-rank from the Shark sloop at Jamaica, 11 July, 1801, there commanded the Garland 22, and Crescent 36, until the peace. He was afterwards appointed – 8 April, 1805, to the Astrea 32, in the North Sea – 23 Jan. 1806, to the Crescent again, on the same station – and, 19 March, 1808, to the Gloire frigate, part of the force employed in Feb. 1809, at the reduction of Martinique,[2] where he had charge for some time of the British squadron. Since 1812 this officer has not been afloat. He became a Rear-Admiral 22 July, 1830; and a Vice-Admiral 23 Nov. 1841.
CARTHEW. (Vice-Admiral, of the Red, 1841.)
James Carthew commanded the Gloire at the blockade of Cherbourg, at the destruction of the French 40-gun frigates Loire and Seine and of the batteries at Ance la Barque, Guadeloupe, and at the taking of the latter island.