A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dench, Charles Thomas
DENCH. (Lieutenant, 1844.)
Charles Thomas Dench passed his examination 1 Feb. 1837; and after serving for some time in the Mediterranean as Mate of the Calcutta 84, Capt. Sir Sam. Roberts, and of the Vesuvius steam-vessel, Capt. Erasmus Ommanney, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 20 Nov. 1844. He has been employed, since 20 Jan. 1845, in the Acorn 16, Capt. John Elliot Bingham, on the south-east coast of America.