A Naval Biographical Dictionary/O'Brien, Charles Douglas
O’BRIEN. (Lieutenant, 1840.)
Charles Douglas O’Brien died about the commencement of 1846.
This officer entered the Navy 29 March, 1823; passed his examination in 1830; and, as a reward for his services during the operations on the coast of Syria, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 4 Nov. 1840. His succeeding appointments were – 15 Dec. 1840, 13 Sept. 1841, and 17 Oct. 1842, to the Benbow 72, Cambridge 78, and Rodney 92, Capts. Houston Stewart, Edw. Barnard, and Robt. Maunsell, all in the Mediterranean – 1 Feb. 1844, to the Coast Guard – 11 Dec. following, as Additional-Lieutenant, to the Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir David Milne at Devonport – and 11 Jan. and 6 May, 1845, to the Ranger 6, and Prometheus steam-sloop, Capts. Jas. Anderson and John Hay, both on the coast of Africa, where he continued employed as First-Lieutenant of the latter vessel until the period of his death.