A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Beer, Christopher
BEER. (Lieutenant, 1813. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
Christopher Beer entered the Navy, 25 March, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Surinam sloop, Capts. Alex. Shippard and John Lake; attained the rating of Midshipman 16 March, 1806; and after serving in the Channel, and for some time in the Leeward Islands, as Mate and Acting-Master, returned home, in Sept. 1809, with the latter officer, in the Félicité 18. He then joined the Orpheus 36, Capt. Pat. Tonyn; and, on 13 Jan. 1810, became attached to the Raleigh 18, Capts. Geo. Sayer, John Sheridan, and Geo. Wastell Hooper, under the first of whom he aided in capturing two privateers, and, on 23 May in the same year, participated, off the Skawe, in company with the Alban and Princess of Wales cutters, in the Raleigh’s engagement with seven Danish gun-vessels, one of which was blown up and the others dispersed with great loss. In Jan. 1812, Mr. Beer was appointed to the Garland 22, Capts. Wm. Huskisson and Rich. Plummer Davies, on the Jamaica station, where, on 10 April, 1813, he received an acting order as Lieutenant of the Shark 16, Capt. John Gore, to which sloop he was confirmed 10 Nov. following. He removed with Capt. Gore, 23 July, 1814, to the Emulous 16, but invalided home in Feb. 1815; and since that period has been on half-pay.