A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Thorndike, Charles Alexander
THORNDIKE. (Lieutenant, 1826.)
Charles Alexander Thorndike died 19 May, 1845, at Littlehampton, co. Sussex.
This officer entered the Navy 10 April, 1810; passed his examination in 1816; and was made Lieutenant, 27 June, 1826, into the Revenge 76, Capt. Sir Chas. Burrard, on the Mediterranean station. He returned home a few months afterwards, and was subsequently employed – from 22 Nov. 1830 until the close of 1832, in the Alligator 28, Capts. Chas. Philip Yorke and Geo. Robt. Lambert, in the Mediterranean and East Indies – and, from 23 Oct. 1833 until the early part of 1835, and again from 13 March, 1843, until the period of his death, in the Coast Guard.