A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Rigge, Charles Gray
RIGGE. (Lieutenant, 1838.)
Charles Gray Rigge is second son of Gray Rigge, Esq., of Wood Broughton House, co. Lancaster, an Acting-Magistrate for Lancashire and the North Riding of co. York, by Sarah, eldest daughter of Edw. Moore, Esq., of Stockwell, and niece of Peter Moore, Esq., Member in several Parliaments for the city of Coventry.
This officer entered the Navy 22 Sept. 1825; passed his examination in 1831; and obtained his commission 28 June, 1838. His appointments have since been – 4 Jan. 1839, to the Zebra 16, Capt. Jas. John Stopford, in the Mediterranean – 17 Sept. 1841, after a few months of half-pay, to the Devastation steamer, Capts. Hastings Reginald Henry, Hon. Swynfen Thos. Carnegie, and Wm. Hewgill Kitchen, with whom he served on the same station until the close of 1845, the greater part of the time as First-Lieutenant – and 29 June, 1846, and 25 Oct. 1847, to the command of the Trident and Comet steam-vessels of 350 and 80-horse power, the former in the Mediterranean, the latter on particular service.