A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Isaacson, Charles Augustus
ISAACSON. (Lieutenant, 1844.)
Charles Augustus Isaacson died in Sept. 1845, on board the Eclair steamer sloop, a victim, with nearly all the officers and crew, to African fever of the most inveterate description.
This officer passed his examination 6 July, 1836; served for about three years in the Mediterranean as Mate of the Malabar 72, and Formidable 84 Capts. Sir Geo. Rose Sartorius, Sir Chas. Sullivan, and Geo. Fred. Rich, latterly under the flag of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen; obtained his commission 10 July, 1844; became, 3 Sept. following, Additional-Lieutenant of the Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir David Milne on the Home station; and, on 21 Oct. in the same year, received his ill-fated appointment to the Éclair, Capt. Walter Grimston Bucknall Estcourt.