A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ladd, Charles Pybus
LADD. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 25; h-p., 17.)
Charles Pybus Ladd, born 17 June, 1790, at Dover, co. Kent, is son of the late Edw. Ladd, Esq., who, in conjunction with his brother Henry, raised, during the first American war, and partly equipped, a volunteer corps of Light Artillery for the defence of their native town. The latter gentleman (who was for many years Captain of Archcliffe Fort, and died at the age of 93) received a silver salver from the then Duke of Richmond, as an acknowledgment of the services he rendered on the occasion.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Sept. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Utrecht 64, Capt. Thos. Seccombe, bearing the flag in the Downs of Vice-Admiral John Holloway; and, from May, 1806, until Oct. 1809, was employed on the Channel and Mediterranean stations, chiefly as Midshipman, in the Glatton 50, commanded at first by Capt. Seccombe, and afterwards by Capts. John Clavell, Henry Hope, and Geo. Miller Bligh. We next find him, until confirmed in his present rank 7 Feb. 1815, serving in 12 different vessels on the Home station; during which period he six times performed the duties of Acting-Lieutenant. His succeeding appointments were – 5 Aug. 1831, to the Skylark packet, the command of which he retained, on the Falmouth station, for upwards of nine years – 8 Sept. 1841, to the Redwing steam-packet, Capt. Thos. Bevis, under whom he was for three years and a half employed at Liverpool – and, 21 May, 1845, to the command of the Zephyr steamer, in which vessel, stationed as a packet between Holyhead and Kingstown, Dublin, he still serves. Lieut.
Ladd married in 1823, and has issue.