A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Beale, Robert Beale
BEALE. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Robert Beale Beale is brother of Lieut. W. Y. Beale, of the 10th Foot, who was killed at the storming of the tête-du-pont by the Sikh army in 1846.
This officer served throughout the whole of the operations of 1840 on the coast of Syria, including the capture of St. Jean d’Acre, as Midshipman of the Princess Charlotte 104, flag-ship of Sir Robt. Stopford, from whom he elicited unqualified approbation. He passed his examination 21 Feb. 1843; and – after an intermediate attachment to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, Larke 18, commanded on the coast of Africa by Capt. John Wm. Douglas Brisbane, and Queen 110, and Trafalgar 120, flag-ships at the Nore of Sir John Chambers White and Sir Edw. Dumford King – was promoted to his present rank 4 April, 1846. He has been serving, since 15 of the following May, in the Dido 18, Capt. John Balfour Maxwell.