A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Jackson, Charles Scott
JACKSON. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 1 6; h-p., 27.)
Charles Scott Jackson entered the Navy, 12 April, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Queen 98, commanded in the Channel by Capts. Theophilus Jones and Manley Dixon; served from Aug. J804 to Aug. 1805, on the Mediterranean station, in the Conqueror 74, Capt. Israel Pellew, and Amphitrite frigate, Capt. Hon. Courtenay Boyle; and was next employed, between June, 1806, and Dec. 1809, on board the Captain 74, Capts. Geo. Cockburn, Isaac Wolley, Jas. Athol Wood, and Christopher John Williams Nesham. In the latter ship we find him present at the capture, 27 Sept. 1806, of Le Président French frigate, of 44 guns; at the bombardment, in 1807, of Copenhagen; and, in 1808-9, at the reduction of Marie-galante, Martinique, and the Saintes. In Nov. 1810, after his name had been borne for nearly 12 months as a Supernumerary on the books of the Royal William, flag-ship at Spithead, he joined the Helena sloop, Capt. Henry Haynes, on the Cork station; whence, we believe, he accompanied the same officer in 1811 to the West Indies on board the Sapphire; from which vessel, in Dec. 1814, he was transferred to a Master’s Mateship in the Chesapeake 38, Capt. Fras. Newcombe, at the Cape of Good Hope. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 7 Dec. 1815; and afterwards appointed – in Aug. 1818 and July, 1819, to the Sapphire again, Capt. Henry Hart, and Bann 20, Capts. Jodrell Leigh, Wilson Braddyll Bigland, and John Ralph Blois, both on the Jamaica station – and, 9 Oct. 1828 and 19 Feb. 1830, to the Ramillies and Talavera Coast-Blockade ships, each commanded by Capt. Hugh Pigot. He has been on half-pay since the close of the latter year.