A Naval Biographical Dictionary/St. John, Charles Orlando Henry Perkins
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ST. JOHN. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Charles Orlando Henry Perkins St. John passed his examination 22 Sept. 1840; and after serving as Mate on the Brazil and Cape of Good Hope and Home stations in the Sparrow ketch, Lieut.-Commander John Tyssen, Excellent gunnery-ship, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, and St. Vincent 120, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Rowley, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 19 Feb. 1846. His appointments have since been – 24 Feb. 1846, a second time, to the Excellent, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads – 4 April, 1847, to the Albion 90, Capt. Chas. Howe Fremantle, in the Mediterranean – 5 Feb. 1848, as a Supernumerary, to his former ship the Excellent – and, 21 April following, to the Bellerophon 78, Capt. Robt. Lambert Baynes.