A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lennock, Charles Adam
LENNOCK. (Retired Commander, 1845. f-p., 19; h-p., 35.)
Charles Adam Lennock entered the Navy, in May, 1793, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Veteran 64, Capt. Chas. Edm. Nugent; and sailed, towards the close of the same year, with the expedition intended for the reduction of the French West India Islands. In Aug. 1794, being at the time in the Santa Margarita 36, Capt. Elias Harvey, we find him assisting at the apparent destruction, near the Penmarcks, of the French 36-gun frigate Volontaire, and corvettes Espion and Alert. After again serving with Capt. Nugent, as Midshipman, in the Caesar 80, and Pompée 74, and with Capt. Eras. Pickmore in the Royal William, Mr. Lennock, in March, 1796, joined the Assistance 50, Capt. Henry Mowat, on the North American station, where he witnessed the capture, 28 Aug. following, of the French frigate Elisabeth of 36 guns, and where he continued to serve as Master’s Mate in the Asia 64, Capt. Robt. Murray, and as Acting-Lieutenant and Lieutenant (order and commission respectively dated 16 April and 29 Nov. 1800), in the St. Albans 64, Capt. John Okes Hardy, until the peace of Amiens. His subsequent appointments were – 28 Oct. 1802, to the Sea Fencibles – 14 Sept. 1804, to the St. Albans again, Capt. John Temple, on the Home station – 22 Aug. 1805, to the Standard 64, Capts. Thos. Harvey, Aiskew Paffard Hollis, and Joshua Sydney Horton, in which ship, during a continuance of five years and a half, he assisted at the passage of the Dardanells, and the reduction of the island of Anholdt – 22 April, 1811, to the Bulwark 74, also commanded by Capt. Horton, and employed at the defence of Cadiz – and 7 Dec. following, to the Courageux 74, Capt. Philip Wilkinson, stationed in the Baltic, where he remained until May, 1813. He was placed on the Junior List of Retired Commanders 26 Nov. 1830; and on the Senior 11 Sept. 1845.