A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Janns, Charles
JANNS. (Retired Commander, 1842. f-p., 11; h-p., 36.)
Charles Janns entered the Navy, 29 July, 1800, as a Supernumerary, on board the Puissant 74, receiving-ship at Spithead, Capt. Symes; removed, in the course of the same year, to the Suffisant, Capts. Jonas Rose, ___ Whitman, and Christopher John Williams Nesham, stationed in the Channel; served, from Oct. 1801 until Nov. 1806, at Home and in North America, on board the Jamaica 24, Capts. Jonas Rose and John Dick; then rejoined Capt. Rose in the Agamemnon 64, lying at the Nore; and on 24 March, 1807, was made Lieutenant into the Alligator, Capt. Campbell. In the following Aug., having received an appointment to the Inflexible 64, Capt. Joshua Rowley Watson he accompanied the expedition to Copenhagen. He afterwards served – from Feb. 1808 until he invalided in Jan. 1811 – on the Channel, Bay of Biscay, and Mediterranean stations, in the Éclair sloop; which vessel, during the illness of her proper Captain, Chas. Kempthorne Quash, he personally commanded at the defence of Sicily in 1810. The latter was his last appointment. He accepted his present rank 19 July, 1842. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.