A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Seaver, Charles
SEAVER. (Lieutenant, 1830.)
Charles Seaver is youngest son of the late Jonathan Seaver, Esq., of Heath Hail, High Sheriff of Armagh in 1807; and brother (with Lieut. Joseph Seaver, 21st Foot, and the late Lieut. John Pockrich Seaver, 15th Foot) of the present Thos. Seaver, Esq., of Heath Hall, a Magistrate for that co., who served in 1816 as High Sheriff for Monaghan. This officer entered the Navy 24 Dec. 1811; passed his examination in 1818; and obtained his commission 22 July, 1830. His succeeding appointments were – 24 Nov. 1838, to the Coast Guard – 8 March, 1842, to the Jaseur 16, Capt. Wm. Alex. Willis, in the Mediterranean – 20 Oct. 1842, to the Shearwater surveying-vessel, Capt. John Washington, at Woolwich – 16 March, 1843, again to the Coast Guard – 9 Aug. 1843, to the Imaum 72, receiving- ship at Jamaica, Commodore Alex. Renton Sharpe – and, 20 Jan. 1845, after two months of half-pay, to the Racehorse sloop, Capts. Geo. Jas. Hay and Edw. Southwell Sotheby, on the East India station, whence he returned in 1848. In all the vessels above mentioned he was First-Lieutenant.
He is married. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.