A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Shadwell, Charles Frederick Alexander
SHADWELL. (Commander, 1846.)
Charles Frederick Alexander Shadwell is son of the Right Hon. Sir Lancelot Shadwell, Kt., Vice-Chancellor of England.
This officer entered the Navy 3 May, 1827; passed his examination in 1833; obtained his first commission 28 June, 1838; was appointed, 26 July following, to the Castor 36, Capt. Edw. Collier, on the Mediterranean station; and, from 3 Dec. 1841 until promoted to his present rank 27 June, 1846, was employed in the East Indies, as First-Lieutenant, in the Fly 18, Capt. Fras. Price Blackwood. In the Castor he took part, in 1840, in the operations against the towns of Caiffa, Jaffa, and Tsour, and assisted at the bombardment of Acre. At Caiffa he was sent with a flag of truce to demand the surrender of that place to the Sublime Porte.[1]
Commander Shadwell is the author of ‘A Table of Arcs for facilitating the Computation of the Latitude, by Double Altitudes of the principal Fixed Stars, calculated for the years 1835, 1845, 1855, &c.’ published in 1837.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1840, p. 2501.