A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Pengelley, Charles
PENGELLEY. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 16;[1] h-p., 35.)
Charles Pengelley entered the Navy, in 1796, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Atlas 98, Capts. Edm. Dod and Matthew Squire, stationed in the Channel; where, and in the Mediterranean, he served, as Midshipman, from 1798 until 1802, in the Pomone 40, Capt. Robt. Carthew Reynolds, and Immortalité 36, Capt. Hon. Henry Hotham. He then, in succession, joined the San Josef 110, Capts. Wm. Wolseley and Jas. Carpenter, and Tonnant 80, Capt. Sir Edw. Pellew, both attached to the Channel fleet; and on 16 Feb. 1805 he was made Lieutenant into the Thisbe 28, Capt. Lewis Shepheard, employed at first in the Mediterranean, and then on the Guernsey station. He invalided in the following Sept.; and was afterwards appointed – 27 June and 28 July, 1806, to the Windsor Castle 98, Capt. Chas. Boyles, and Royal George 100, Capt. Rich. Dalling Dunn, under whom, after having served with Sir John Thos. Duckworth at the passage of the Dardanells, he sailed for the West Indies – 29 July, 1809, to the Fylla 22, Capt. Hon. Edw. Rodney, employed off Oporto, Guernsey, and Jersey – 1 May, 1810, to the Hamadryad 36, Capt. Sir Thos. Staines, in which ship, until April, 1812, when his health again obliged him to invalid, we find him engaged in cruizing off the Western Islands, escorting troops to the mouth of the Tagus, accompanying a fleet of Indiamen from St. Helena to the Downs, and serving off the coast of Ireland – 5 Jan. 1813, to the San Josef 110, flag-ship of Sir Rich. King in the Mediterranean – and, 6 July following, to the flotilla service in the Faro of Messina. For his conduct in leading a division of the flotilla in the attack upon Genoa,[2] he was nominated, 18 April, 1814, Acting-Commander of the Guadeloupe 16, in which sloop he remained for a period of three months. He was confirmed in his present rank 20 Sept. in the same year; and was afterwards employed for same time in the Water and Coast Guard.
Commander Pengelley’s eldest son, Charles William, married in 1839 the only surviving child of Capt. Wm. Rogers, of the Holyhead station.