A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Turrell, Charles
TURRELL. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 14; h-p., 32.)
Charles Turrell died 13 Jan. 1846, at Peckham, aged 60.
This officer entered the Navy, in Aug. 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Windsor Castle 98, Capt. Jas. Oughton, bearing the flag in the Channel and on the coast of Ireland of Vice-Admiral Sir Andw. Mitchell; under whom he served, from May, 1802, until March, 1805, as Midshipman (a rating he had attained in Sept. 1801), in the Leander 50. In that ship, while cruizing under the command of Capt. John Talbot, he assisted, we believe, at the capture, 23 Feb. 1805, of La Ville de Milan, French frigate, of 46 guns, and her prize the Cleopatra 32. In July, 1806 (he had joined, in Nov. 1805, the Minerve frigate, Capt. Geo. Ralph Collier) he served in a boat, under Lieut. Mulcaster, at the capture of a privateer.[1] He was afterwards taken prisoner, and detained until the end of the war. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 13 Feb. 1815, and was not afterwards, that we are aware, employed. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1806, p. 951.