A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Yonge, Frederick Duke
YONGE. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
Frederick Duke Yonge is third son of the late Rev. Duke Yonge, Vicar of Antony, co. Cornwall; grandson of the Rev. Duke Yonge, Vicar of Cornwood, who married a daughter of Sir Thos. Crawley Boevey, Bart., of Flaxley Abbey, co. Gloucester; and nephew of Capt. Geo. Crawley, R.N., who died in 1810.
This officer entered the Navy in 1832; passed his examination 11 Aug. 1833; served in the Mediterranean, at Plymouth, on the North America and West India station, and again in the Mediterranean, as Mate, in the Princess Charlotte 104 and Caledonia 120, flag-ships of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford and Sir Graham Moore, Rover 18, Capt, Chas. Keele, and Warspite 50, Capt. Provo Wm. Parry Wallis; and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 28 May, 1845. He was appointed, 16 Oct. following, to the Avon steam surveying-vessel, Capt. Henry Mangles Denham, on the coast of Africa; and has been employed, since 2 March, 1847, in the Queen 110, Capts. Sir Henry John Leeke and Henry Wm. Bruce, at Devonport and on his former station, the Mediterranean.