Royal Naval Biography/Beecroft, Charles
CHARLES BEECROFT, Esq.
[Commander.]
A follower of the heroic Sir W. Sidney Smith, to whose notice he was first introduced by the lamented Captain John Westley Wright, and with whom, after receiving a severe wound, he was taken prisoner, near Havre, in April, 1796. He obtained the rank of lieutenant in 1802; and was most honorably mentioned by Sir Sidney, in his reports of the capture of the island of Capri, and the destruction of a Turkish squadron at the entrance of the Dardanelles, in May, 1806, and Feb. 1807. His commission as commander bore date Oct. 3d, 1809; and at the time of his decease, in 1825, he enjoyed a pension for his wounds, of £150 per annum.