A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Greene, Charles
GREENE. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 13; h-p., 33.)
Charles Greene is son of the Rev. Doctor Greene.
This officer entered the Royal Naval Academy in Dec. 1801; and embarked, 2 Nov. 1805, as A.B., on board the Euryalus 36, Capts. Hon. Hen. Blackwood and Hon. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dundas, employed off Cadiz. In April, 1806, he joined the Ajax 74, Capts. John Pilford and Hon. H. Blackwood; on the accidental destruction of which ship by fire off the Dardanells, 14 Feb. 1807, he became attached to the Active 38, Capt. Rich. Hussey Moubray, and immediately accompanied Sir John Thos. Duckworth in the passage of those straits, where he assisted at the destruction of the Turkish squadron off Point Pesquies. Rejoining the Hon. H. Blackwood, in Feb. 1808, on board the Warspite 74, he continued to serve with that officer, as Midshipman, in the North Sea and Mediterranean, until nominated Acting-Lieutenant, 6 Feb. 1810 of the Tigre 74, Capt. Benj. Hallowell. He was confirmed, 4 May following, into the Atlas 74, Capt. Jas. Sanders, off Cadiz; and next appointed, 15 Feb. 1811, to the Laurel 38, Capt. Sam. Campbell Rowley, in which frigate he was wrecked, on the Govivas rock, in the Teigneuse passage, under a heavy fire from the French batteries, 3l Jan. 1812. Being sent on shore on that occasion to solicit assistance from the enemy, and to request the French commandant to cease his cannonade, he was detained prisoner; nor did he succeed in procuring his enlargement until the conclusion of hostilities in May, 1814. He was then successively appointed to ,the Impregnable 98, bearing the flag of H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence, and Magicienne 36, Capt. Hon. Wm. Gordon; and on 23 of the following July was advanced to the rank of Commander. He has not been since employed. Agents – Messrs. Halford.