A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dangerfield, Charles
DANGERFIELD. (Lieutenant, 1818. f-p., 16; h-p., 19.)
Charles Dangerfield died in 1845.
This officer entered the Navy, 24 Feb. 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Leda 36, Capt. Geo. Sayer, in which he sailed with a convoy of Indiamen for the East, and there assisted, as Midshipman, at the reduction of Java in Aug. 1811, and in a serious attack made in June [errata 1] 1813, on the pirates of Sambas, in Borneo. Removing, as Acting-Lieutenant, on 14 March, 1816, to the Camelion 10, Capt. John M‘Arthur Low, he returned to England, and was next appointed, in June, 1817, Admiralty-Midshipman of the Rosario brig, Capt. Thos. Ladd Peake. Lieut. Dangerfield – who obtained his commission 20 Jan. 1818, and was subsequently, in 1823, employed on board the Gloucester 74, bearing the broad pendant in the West Indies of Commodore Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen – was appointed, 16 March, 1834, to the command of a station in the Coast Guard. With an interval of two years (from March, 1841, to March, 1843), he continued in that service, until the period of his death.