A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Palmer, Charles
PALMER. (Lieut., 1820. f-p., 13; h-p., 25.)
Charles Palmer was born 27 Dec. 1792. This officer entered the Navy, in Ang. 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Gibraltar 80, Capts. Hen. Lidgbird Ball and Robt. Plampin, stationed in the Channel, where in the following month he attained the rating of Midshipman, and in Feb. 1812 amoved to the Stirling Castle 74, Capts. Sir Jahleel Brenton and Augustus Brine. With Capt. Brine he continued employed in the Venerable, Bellerophon, and Medway 74’s (the latter bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Chas. Tyler at the Cape of Good Hope), until nominated, 27 Dec. 1815, Acting-Lieutenant of the Tamar 24, Capt. Chas. Sotheby. He returned to England in Feb. 1816; and between Aug. of that year and the date of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 26 Dec. 1820, was in succession appointed Admiralty-Midshipman of the Ganymede 26, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch. Erne 20, Capt. Rich. Spencer, Impregnable 104) flag-ship of Lord Exmouth, Dorothea hired-ship, Capt. David Buchan, and Hecla bomb, Lieut.Commander Wm. Edw. Parry. In the Ganymede, Erne, and Impregnable he was employed on the Downs, Mediterranean, and Plymouth stations; he took part, in the Dorothea, in a perilous voyage of discovery to the neighbourhood of Spitzbergen; and in the Hecla he penetrated to long. 113° 64' 43" W. within the Arctic Circle, and thereby became entitled to a portion of a Parliamentary reward of 5000l. Being re-appointed, 8 Jan. 1821, to the Hecla, then commanded by Capt. Geo. Fras. Lyon, he sailed in the following May with Capt. Parry’s second expedition in quest of a North-west passage. He returned to England in the autumn of 823, and has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Palmer married, 29 May, 1828, Miss Sarah C. Yorke.