Royal Naval Biography/du Cane, Charles
CHARLES DU CANE, Esq.
[Commander.]
Served as master’s-mate on board the Mercury 28, Captain (now Sir James A.) Gordon; and was employed in her boats at the capture of seven Spanish tartans, under the batteries of Rota, April 4th, 1808[1]. He passed his examination in July 1809; obtained the rank of lieutenant in Dec. following, on which occasion, we believe, he was appointed to the Egeria sloop, Captain Lewis Hole; and subsequently served under Captains Joseph Bingham and Richard Raggett, in the Egmont and Spencer 74’s. He was advanced to his present rank on the 30th Aug. 1815; and has since been employed as inspecting commander of the coast-guard, viz. at Harwich, in 1824; and at Ryde, Isle of Wight, in 1825.
This officer married, in 1823, Frances, second daughter of the Rev. C. Prideaux Brune, of Prideaux Place, co. Cornwall.