A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Chave, Samuel
CHAVE. (Lieut., 181.5. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
Samuel Chave entered the Navy, 28 March, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Bittern 18, Capts. Edw. Augustus Down and Thos. Ussher, on the Mediterranean station; and attained the rating of Midshipman 22 Nov. 1807. Removing, in Aug. 1808, to the Surinam 16, Capt. John Lake, on the West India station, he served on shore at the capture of Martinique in Feb. 1809; after which he joined the Eclipse 18, Capts. G. A. Creyke, Geo. Henderson, and Henry Lynne, under the last of whom he was again employed on shore, at the reduction of the Isle of France, in Dec. 1810. Subsequently to that event we find Mr. Chave cruizing, as Master’s Mate, off the same island, and also off Java, in command of a tender, for the suppression of slavery. He was transferred, in July, 1813, to the Venus 32, Capt. Kenneth Mackenzie, in the West Indies; served next, from May to Sept. 1814, as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Myrtle 20, Capt. Arthur Batt Bingham, off the coast of Norway; then rejoined the Venus, on the same station; and, on 2 Feb. 1815, was promoted to his present rank. Since that period he has not been afloat. Agent – Frederick Dufaur.