A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Chinnery, Charles
CHINNERY. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 31.)
Charles Chinnery entered the Navy, 25 Feb. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Devastation, Capt. Alex. Milner, on the Home station, where he continued to serve with the same officer, the last three years as Midshipman of the Swallow 18, until Aug. 1809; previously to which period he assisted at the capture, 15 Nov. 1807, of the French privateer Friedland, of 2 guns and 41 men. He then removed to the Narcissus 32, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer, under whom he took the privateer Duguay Trouin, of 14 guns and 75 men, and Aimable Josephine, of 14 guns and 105 men, and appears to have actively co-operated with the patriots on the north coast of Spain. We subsequently find him joining, in Feb. 1811, the Plantagenet 74, Capt. Robt. Lloyd, in the Baltic, and, in Feb. 1813, the Majestic 74, Capt. John Hayes, on the North American station. Since June, 1815, some time antecedent to which date, 7 Feb. 1815, he had been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, Mr. Chinnery has been on half-pay.