​CARSLAKE. (Lieut., 1805. f-p., 16; h-p., 32.)

John Carslake was born 12 Sept. 1785.

This officer entered the Navy, 18 Jan. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Royal George 100, bearing the flag of Lord Bridport in the Channel; attained the rating of Midshipman 14 Jan. 1800; and on removing, in April, 1800, to the Thames 32, Capts. Wm. Lukin and Aiskew Paffard Hollis, assisted at the capture of several privateers in the West Indies, was present, 12 July, 1801, in the battle fought by Sir Jas. Saumarez with the Franco-Spanish squadron near Cadiz, and was frequently in collision with the batteries on the French coast. During the peace he served on board the St. George 98, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Morice Pole, and Courageux 74, Capt. John Okes Hardy, on the West India and Home stations, and, at the renewal of hostilities in 1803, joined the Victory 100, bearing the flag of Lord Nelson. In the following year Mr. Carslake, by his individual exertions, extinguished an alarming fire which had broken out in the cockpit of that ship. He next accompanied Lord Nelson to the West Indies in pursuit of the combined fleets; and, for his subsequently meritorious conduct at the battle of Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805, was promoted, the very next day, to a Lieutenancy in the Bellisle 74, Capt. Wm. Hargood. On 17 Dec. in the same year he rejoined the St. George, Capt. Thos. Bertie, attached to the fleet in the Channel, where we find him intrepidly dashing overboard, at a time when the sea was boisterous in the extreme, and saving the life of a seaman and of the First-Lieutenant, Mr. Caulfeild. In consequence of this act of heroism he was appointed, 12 Sept. 1807, First of the Proserpine 32, Capt. Chas. Otter, with whom, after bringing home from Gottenborg Lord Leveson Gower, the British ambassador to the court of St. Petersburg, he proceeded to watch the port of Toulon. While thus employed the Proserpine was attacked on 28 Feb. 1809, and, in spite of a noble resistance, in which she sustained a loss of 1 man killed and 10 wounded, captured by the French 40-gun frigates Pénélope and Pauline; owing to which untoward circumstance Lieut. Carslake was detained a prisoner in France until May, 1814. On 4 April in the following year he became First of the Tartarus 20, bearing the flag in the Scheldt of Sir Pulteney Malcolm, in which ship he remained until paid off in Nov. following. Since that period he has neither been afloat nor been able to procure that promotion which, we believe, was freely granted at the conclusion of the war to every other First-Lieutenant of a ship that had been honourably captured.

Lieut. Carslake is a magistrate for the co. of Devon. He married, 30 Sept. 1817, Thomazin, youngest daughter of the late Wm. Leigh, Esq., of Slade House, near Sidmouth, and has issue a son and daughter. Agent – Frederick Dufaur.

Alexander Rodney Bligh Carter is son of Vice-Admiral Chas. Carter.

This officer passed his examination 29 Oct. 1836; and while Mate of the Daring 12, Capt. Henry Jas. Matson, which vessel he joined towards the close of 1844, jumped overboard and rescued a man from being drowned. He obtained his commission 9 Jan. 1846, and since the 12th of the same month has been serving at the Cape of Good Hope and in the East Indies on board the Snake 16, Capt. Thos. Bourmaster Brown, and Childers 12, Capt. John Chas. Pitman.

CARTER. (Vice-Admiral of the Blue, 1846. f-p., 22; h-p., 42.)

Charles Carter is son of the late Rev. H. Carter, Rector of Whittenham, Berks; brother of Capt. Benj. Carter, R.N. (1802), who died, 1 Nov. 1833, in his 61st year, and of the late Brevet-Major Carter, R.M.; and nephew of that celebrated authoress the late Mrs. Elizabeth Carter.

This officer entered the Navy, 10 April, 1783, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Hermione frigate, Capt. John Stone, with whom he continued, on the Halifax and West India stations, until removed, in Aug. 1786, as Midshipman, to the Crown 64, Capt. Chas. Morice Pole, lying at Plymouth. He afterwards served, for three years, again in the West Indies, on board the Scorpion sloop, Capts. Wm. Albany Otway and Sir Chas. Hamilton; was then transferred to the Leopard 50, Capt. John Blankett, in the Channel; and, on 22 Nov. 1790, was promoted, from the Queen Charlotte 100, flag-ship of Lord Howe, to the rank of Lieutenant. His subsequent appointments, in the latter capacity, appear to have been – 15 April, 1791, to the Barfleur 98, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Faulknor, in the Channel, where he served until the ensuing Oct. – 23 Jan. 1793, to the Trimmer 16, Capt. Fras. Fayerman, under whom he aided in capturing Le Courier French privateer – 4 Feb. 1794, to the Alexander 74, Capt. Rich. Rodney Bligh, which ship, after a glorious resistance of more than two hours, and a loss in killed and wounded of 40 men, was taken, 6 Nov. following, by a squadron of five line-of-battle ships and three frigates, under Rear-Admiral Nielly^[1] – 22 June, 1795, on his release from a loathsome captivity, to the Magnificent 74, Capt. Squire, in the North Sea – and, 1 March, 1796, as First, to the Galatea 32, Capts. Rich. Goodwin Keats and Hon. Geo. Byng, to the former of whom we find him rendering himself conspicuously useful at the boarding and destruction, 23 Aug. 1796, near Arcasson, of L’Andromaque, of 44 guns and 300 men.^[2] On 15 May, 1800, Mr. Carter was advanced to the command of the Adventure 44, armée en flûte, and, from that period until March, 1801, was actively employed in the conveyance of troops to Spain, Minorca, and Portugal. Having attained Post-rank 29 April, 1802, he afterwards commanded, in consequence of his inability to procure employment afloat, the Isle of Wight district of Sea Fencibles from 4 Aug. 1804, to March, 1810 – and the Impress service at Gravesend, from 13 Dec. 1813, to 18 June, 1814, and again from 1 May to 12 Aug. 1815. He became Rear-Admiral 10 Jan. 1837, and a Vice-Admiral 9 Nov. 1846.

He married Maria Holmes, youngest daughter of his old Captain, the late Admiral Sir R. R. Bligh, G.C.B., by whom he has, with other issue, two sons, the present Lieuts. Chas. Ricketts and A. R. B. Carter, R.N., and a daughter, married to Lieut. Joseph Bligh Duffield, R.N. Another daughter, now dead, was the wife of Lieut. Geo. Johnson, R.N.

CARTER, K.W. (Lieutenant, 1800.)

Charles Carter died 1 Oct. 1845. This officer entered the Navy, in June, 1794, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Polyphemus 64, Capt. Geo. Lumsdaine, bearing the flag of Admiral Rich. Kingsmill on the Irish station, where we find him assisting, as Midshipman, at the capture in Oct. 1795 Dec. 1796, and Jan. 1797, of the Dutch 64-gun ship Overyssel, the French privateer Les Deux Amis, of 14 guns and 80 men, and the 44-gun frigate La Tortue. He was promoted, 23 Sept. 1800, to be a Lieutenant of the Albion sloop, Capt. Jas. Hills, in which ship he proceeded to the Baltic; and on joining, 11 April, 1801, the Asia, Capt. John Dawson, was wrecked, off Dover, in the course of the same year. His next appointment was, 4 Sept. 1804, to the command of the Firebrand fire-vessel; after which he was for some time employed in the Sea Fencibles at Chatham.

Lieut. Carter, who had been on half-pay since 1810, died Governor of the Naval Knights of Windsor. Agent – J. Hinxman.

CARTER. (Lieutenant, 1840. f-p., 21; h-p., 1.)

Charles Ricketts Carter, born 28 Nov. 1811, is eldest son of Vice-Admiral Chas. Carter.

This officer entered the Royal Naval College 3 Feb. 1825; and embarked, 6 Feb. 1827, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Sapphire 28, Capt. Henry Dundas, stationed in the Channel. On removing, as Midshipman, 3 March, 1828, to the Blonde 42, Capts. Edmund Lyons and Sir Thos. Sabine Pasley, he proceeded to the Mediterranean, where, in Oct. following, we find him co-operating with the French at the siege of Morea Castle. He next, in July, 1831, joined the Talavera 74, Capts. David Colby and Thos. Brown, on the same station; passed his examination 7 Sept. 1831; and was afterwards, as Mate, appointed – 21 May, 1833, to the Caledonia 120, flag-ship, also in the Mediterranean, of Sir Josias Rowley – 12 Sept. 1837, to the Britannia 120, bearing the flag at Portsmouth of Sir Philip C. C. H. Durham – 22 Nov. 1837, to the Excellent gunnery-ship, Capt. Thos. Hastings – and, 20 Nov. 1838, to the Ganges 84, Capt. Barrington Reynolds. For his services at D’Journi, and otherwise on the coast of Syria, Mr. Carter was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 5 Nov. 1840; subsequently to which, 28 May, 1841, he joined the Cornwallis 72, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker on the coast of China, where he served on shore with the naval brigade at the capture of the enemy’s batteries at Chapoo and Woosung,^[3] and in the various other operations which terminated with the pacification of Nanking. He has been employed since 20 June, 1845, in the Canopus 84, Capt. Fairfax Moresby, on the Channel station.

CARTER. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 28; h-p., 17.)

James Carter (b) entered the Navy, 20 May, 1802, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the St. Fiorenzo 40, Capt. Joseph Bingham, on the East India station, where, in Oct. 1804, he removed, with the same Captain, to the Sceptre 74. He afterwards, in Aug. 1809, attended, as Midshipman, the expedition to the Walcheren; and was next, in Dec. of the same year and Feb. 1810, present, under Capt. Sam. Jas. Ballard, at the destruction of the French 44-gun frigates Loire and Seine, as likewise at the capture of Guadeloupe, where he served on shore with the small-arm men. Mr. Carter subsequently joined, between Jan. 1812, and April, 1815, the Boyne 98, flag-ship of Sir Harry Burrard Neale off Brest, Armide 38, Capts. Fras. Temple and Sir Edw. Thos. Troubridge (in which he proceeded to North America), Sceptre, again, Capt. John Ferris Devonshire, In the West Indies, and Asia 74, and Tonnant 80, bearing the flag of Hon. Sir Alex. Inglis Cochrane. While attached to the latter ship, he served on shore at the destruction of Washington, and in the attacks on Baltimore and New Orleans. On quitting the Tonnant he became Acting-Lieutenant of the Melpomene troop-ship, Capt. Robt. Rowley, and on his arrival home in Aug. following he found that he had been officially promoted by commission dated 9 Feb. 1815. His