A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Wood, Charles Octavius
WOOD. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
Charles Octavius Wood entered the Navy in 1828; assisted, when Midshipman of the Imogene, Capt. Price Blackwood, in forcing (in company with the Andromache 28, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads) the passage of the Boca Tigris, in China, in Sept. 1834; passed his examination 6 June, 1838; served as Mate, on the Mediterranean, North America and West India, and Plymouth stations, in the Bellerophon 80, Capt. Chas. John Austen (part of the force employed in the operations on the coast of Syria and at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre), Illustrious 72 and Queen 110, flag-ships of Sir Chas. Adam and Sir John West; obtained his commission 6 Dec. 1845; and from 8 of the latter month until paid off in 1848 was employed, again in North America and the West Indies, in the Endymion 44, Capts. Geo. Robt. Lambert, Geo. Wm. Conway Courtenay, and Hon. Geo. Fowler Hastings.