A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Young, Charles Henry
YOUNG. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
Charles Henry Young entered the Navy in 1830; passed his examination 15 Feb. 1839; served from 1841 until 1843 as Mate in the Monarch 74, Capt. Sam. Chambers, in the Mediterranean, and from 1844 until 1847 in the same capacity and as Lieutenant (commission dated 1 Dec. 1845) in the Agincourt 72, flag-ship of Sir Thos. John Cochrane in the East Indies; and since 30 March, 1848, has been employed, as Senior, in the Gorgon steam-sloop, of 320 horse-power, Capt. Jas. Aylmer Paynter, in the Pacific. On 19 Aug. 1845 he served with the boats of a squadron, carrying 530 officers, seamen, and marines (the whole under the command of Capt. Chas. Talbot), at the destruction of the piratical settlement of Malloodoo, on the north end of the island of Borneo, where the British sustained a loss of 6 men killed and 15 wounded;[1] and on 8 July, 1846, having accompanied Sir T. J. Cochrane in an expedition against the Sultan of Borneo, he assisted, and was attached to the field-piece and rocket brigade, at the destruction of the enemy’s forts and batteries in the river Brune.[2]