A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Wright, Charles Mayson Moncrieffe
WRIGHT. (Captain, 1846. f-p., 29; h-p., 10.)
Charles Mayson Moncrieffe Wright entered the Navy, 12 Jan. 1808, on board the Goliath 74, Capt. Peter Puget, stationed in the Baltic. He served afterwards, between the close of the latter year and May, 1821, in the Channel, Mediterranean, and East Indies, in the Helicon and Philomel sloops, Capts. Spelman Swaine, Gardiner Henry Guion, and Chas. Shaw, Rainbow and Iphigenia frigates, Capts. G. H. Guion and Andrew King, Philomel again and Amphitrite 38,[1] Capts. C. Shaw and Jas. Hanway Plumridge, Liverpool 50, Capt. Fras. Aug. Collier, and Topaze frigate, Capt. John Rich. Lumley. In the Liverpool he accompanied an expedition sent in 1819 to act against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, where Ras-al-Khyma, the head-quarters of the freebooters, was taken, its fortifications destroyed, and all the vessels found there burnt or sunk. After he left the Topaze Mr. Wright (he had been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 21 Oct. 1820) was appointed – 24 Aug. 1825, and again (after about two years of half-pay) 13 May, 18.30, as a Supernumerary, to the Hyperion 42, Coast Blockade-ship, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye – 5 April, 1831, to the Coast Guard – 17 Dec. following, as Senior, to the Harrier 18, Capt. Spencer Lambart Hunter Vassall, fitting for the East Indies, where he was actively employed in the suppression of piracy in the Straits of Malacca – 18 March, 1836, in a similar capacity (the Harrier had been paid off in July, 1835), to the Vanguard 80, Capts. Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie and Sir Thos. Fellowes, under whom he was for about four years stationed in the Mediterranean – and 27 Oct. 1840, also as First-Lieutenant, to the Impregnable 104, Capt. Thos. Forrest, at Plymouth. He attained the rank of Commander 23 Nov. 1841; served as such in the Alfred 50, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore John Brett Purvis on the south-east coast of America, from 22 May, 1842, until paid off in Aug. 1845; and was advanced to his present rank 9 Nov. 1846.
- ↑ He quitted the Amphitrite in Jan. 1817, and joined the Liverpool in April, 1818. During the interval he remained on shore.