A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Vansittart, Charles Augustus
VANSITTART. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
Charles Augustus Vansittartentered the Navy in 1834; passed his examination 6 Nov. 1841; and in the following year sailed, as Mate of the Winchester 50, flag-ship of Hon. Josceline Percy, for the Cape of Good Hope; where he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 10 Feb. 1845, and appointed, 24 of the same month, to the Sappho 16, Capt. Robt. Fitzgerald Gambier. He returned to England in 1846; and was employed for a few months in 1847 in the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads.