A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Christie, Peter
CHRISTIE. (Capt., 1841. f-p., 21; h-p., 16.)
Peter Christie is son of Jas. Christie, Esq., of Durie, co. Fife, by Mary Turner, daughter of the Hon. Chas. Barclay Maitland, grand-daughter of the sixth Earl of Lauderdale, and first cousin of the late Rear-Admiral Sir Fred. Lewis Maidand, K.C.B. He is brother of Lieuts. Gabriel and Wm. Christie, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 13 April, 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Emerald 36, commanded by his relative, Capt. F. L. Maitland, under whom he assisted at the capture of L’Auguste privateer, of 18 guns and 126 men, 6 April, 1811; attained the rating of Midshipman 8 Nov. following; and continued to serve – omitting a period of 15 months, from Feb. 1812, to May, 1813, when we find him in the Tigrb 74, Capt. John Halliday – on board the Goliath 74, Boyne 98, and Bellerophon 74, latterly off the coasts of America and France, until Sept. 1815. Mr. Christie, who was in the last-mentioned ship when Napoleon Buonaparte surrendered, was next employed, until Aug. 1818, under Capt. Jas. Walker, in the Albion, Queen, and Northumberland 74’s, on the Home station. He then joined, on the coast of Africa (where he assisted in the boats at the capture of many slave-vessels), the Tartar 36, Commodore Sir Geo. Ralph Collier, of which ship, having passed his examination in 1816, he was confirmed a Lieutenant 9 Sept. 1820. Being next appointed, 6 July, 1824, to the Cambrian 48, Capt. Wm. Gawen Hamilton, he shared in numerous boat affairs with the pirates of the Greek Archipelago, and, in particular, on 31 Jan. 1825, bore a part in a very gallant conflict, in which the British lost 6 men killed and 13 wounded. For his services, as First of the Cambrian, at the battle of Navarin, Mr. Christie obtained a Commander’s commission, dated 22 Oct. 1827. He was subsequently employed in the Coast Guard from 19 March, 1835, until March, 1838, and served, in command of the Rose 18, on the Spanish and Brazilian coasts, from 3 Aug. 1838, until posted 23 Nov. 1841. He has not since held any official occupation. Agents – Collier and Snee.