A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dunbar, Charles Sydney
DUNBAR. (Lieutenant, 1844.)
Charles Sydney Dunbar entered the Navy 2 Dec. 1832; passed his examination 1 May, 1839; and served for some time, as Mate, on board the Lizard steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander Walter Grimston Bucknall Estcourt, Rodney 92, Capt. Robt. Maunsell, and Fox 42, Capt. Sir Henry Martin Blackwood, chiefly on the Mediterranean station. He obtained his commission 3 July, 1844, and on the same day was appointed Additional-Lieutenant of the Agincourt 72, flag-ship in the East Indies of Sir Thos. John Cochrane. Mr. Dunbar, since 29 March, 1845, has been employed on the same station in the Iris 26, Capt. Geo. Rodney Mundy. During an expedition conducted, in July, 1846, by Sir Thos. Cochrane against the Sultan of Borneo, we find him commanding the pinnace belonging to the Iris, and assisting at the capture and destruction, on 8 of that month, of the enemy’s forts and batteries on the river Brune. On the ensuing ascent of a branch of the latter stream by a force under Capt. Mundy, and its debarkation, after struggling for many hours against an almost impenetrable navigation, at the village of Mallout, Mr. Dunbar, while the main body marched on to Damuan, in the hope of there capturing the Sultan’s person, was left with a party of blue-jackets to garrison the former place. While the British were afloat he had partial command of a flotilla of seven gun-boats, and was mentioned for the cheerful assistance he afforded on the occasion.[1]
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1846, pp. 3442, 3445, 3446.