A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gale, Charles
GALE. (Lieutenant, 1824. f-p., 23; h-p., 16.)
Charles Gale entered the Navy, 14 Feb. 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Mars 74, Capts. Wm. Lukin, Jas. Ivaton, John Surman Garden, and Henry Raper, bearing the flag at first of Rear-Admiral Rich. Goodwin Keats, on the Baltic station; where, and on the coasts of Spain, Portugal, and America, he continued to serve, in the same ship and in the Niobe 38, Capts. Wm. Augustus Montagu and Henry Colins Deacon, nearly the whole time as Midshipman, until 1815. He then successively joined the Furieuse 36, Capt. Wm. Mounsey, Primrose 18, Capt. Chas. Geo. Rodney Phillott, and Bermuda 10, Capt. John Pakenham; which latter vessel, while on her passage from the Gulf of Mexico, was lost near Tampico Bar, 16 Nov. 1816. From the occurrence of that event, and until again wrecked in Kingstown Harbour, Dublin, 3 March, 1824, Mr. Gale further served, on the Home, West India, and Mediterranean stations, in the Tigris 36; Capt. Robt. Henderson, Spartan 38, Capt. Wm. Furlong Wise, Pyramus 42, Capt. Fras. Newcombe, Severn 40, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch, and Dwarf, Capt. Nicholas Gould. During the period of his being borne on the books of the Severn, from 1820 to 1822, he appears to have been employed in the Coast Blockade. During the latter months of 1824 we find him serving on board the Meteor and Bramble, Capts. Jas. Scott and Thos. Favell. He was then promoted by commission dated back to 21 Jan. in that year. Since 2 July, 1840, he has been in command of a station in the Coast Guard. Agents – Messrs. Chard.