A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Clubley, Charles Witty
CLUBLEY. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
Charles Witty Clubley entered the Navy, 7 Feb. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ambuscade 32, Capt. Wm. D’Urban, on the Mediterranean station, where he became, 15 Aug. following. Midshipman of the Madras 54, Capt. Chas. Marsh Schomberg, and continued to serve, until Dec. 1807, in the Spider 10, Lieut.-Commander H. Shaw, Queen 98, Capt. Fras. Pender, and Zealous 74, Capts. John Okes Hardy and John Giffard. While in the Spider he assisted in cutting out, from the port of Reggio, 10 Dec. 1805, the Andromeda French privateer, of 4 guns and 43 men. From 26 March, 1808, until 26 March, 1811, we next find Mr. Clubley studying at the Royal Naval College; after which he returned to the Mediterranean, where, and latterly on the Home station, he appears, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 17 Feb. 1815, to have been successively employed in the Blossom 18, and Swiftsure 74, both commanded by Capt. Wm. Stewart, Volontaire 38, Capt. Hon. Granville Geo. Waldegrave, Repulse 74, Capt. Rich. Hussey Moubray, San Josef 110, flag-ship of Sir Rich. King, Furieuse 36, Capt. Wm. Mounsey, Cossack 22, Acting-Capt. Jones, Caledonia 120, bearing the flag of Lord Exmouth, Undaunted 38, Capt. Thos. Ussher, Pilot sloop, Capt. John Toup Nicolas, Leveret 10, Capt. Jonathan Christian, Monmouth 64, Capt. Wilkinson, Namur 74, Rear-Admiral Sir Chas. Rowley, and Bombay 74, Capt. John Bazely. On 29 April, 1812, he served in the boats of the Blossom, with those of the Undaunted and Volontaire, under Lieut. John Eagar, at the capture and destruction, near the mouth of the Rhone, of a national schooner of 4 guns and 74 men, and a convoy of 20 vessels. He assisted also, in the same sloop, at the reduction of two towers in the Bay of St. Mary’s. He co-operated, next, with the patriots on the coast of Catalonia, particularly at Tarragona; and, when in the Furieuse, aided, as well as in other boat affairs, at the taking of a privateer and convoy close to Civita Vecchia, and was also present in the unsuccessful attack on Leghorn, and at the surrender of Genoa. Since 1815 Lieut. Clubley has been on half-pay.