A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Wade, Charles Francis
WADE. (Lieutenant, 1838.)
Charles Francis Wade was killed in Aug. 1844, while First of the Dido, in gallantly leading an attack on a town belonging to a settlement of pirates in the island of Borneo.
This officer entered the Navy 21 Sept. 1824; passed his examination in 1830; and obtained his commission 28 June, 1838. He was afterwards appointed – 7 July, 1838, to the Carysfort 26, Capt. Henry Byam Martin, in the Mediterranean – 22 Oct. 1839, as Additional-Lieutenant, to the Stag 46, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Thos. Ball Sulivan, on the coast of South America – 30 Oct. 1840, to the Curaçoa 24, Capt. Jenkin Jones, on the same station – and 2 Dec. 1842 and 5 June, 1844, as First, to the Samarang 26, surveying-vessel, and Dido 18, Capts. Sir Edw. Belcher and Hon. Henry Keppel, both in the East Indies, where he was killed as above.