A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Phillips, Charles Gerrans
PHILLIPS. (Commander, 1848.)
Charles Gerrans Phillips entered the Navy 25 Nov. 1820; passed his examination in 1827; and obtained his first commission 28 June, 1838. His succeeding appointments were – 21 Sept. 1839, to the Terror, Capt. Fras. Rawdon Moira Crozier, in which vessel he sailed with an expedition under Capt. Jas. Clarke Ross, for the purposes of magnetic research and geographical discovery in the Antarctic Ocean – and, 23 Nov. 1843, as First-Lieutenant, to the Helena 16, Capt. Sir Cornwallis Ricketts, fitting for the Cape of Good Hope, whence he returned to England and was paid off in 1847. He was advanced to the rank of Commander 31 Jan. 1848. Agents – Messrs. Chard.