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CHRISTOPHER—CHRYSTIE—CHUBB—CHURCH.
Capt. John Cramer. Between the latter period and the date of his promotion, which did not take place until 29 Jan. 1821, nearly seven years after he had passed his examination, we further find Mr. Christie doing duty as Admiralty-Midshipman on board the Ramillies 74, Capt. Thos. Boys, Severn 40, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch, Vigo 74, Capt. Thos. Brown, and Albion 74, Capt. Rich. Raggett. He was then placed on half-pay, and has not since been afloat.
CHRISTOPHER. (Lieutenant, 1841. f-p., 21; h-p., 1.)
Thomas Borradaile Christopher entered the Navy, 21 May, 1825, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Herald yacht, Capts. Geo. Luke, Augustus Wm. Jas. Clifford, Henry Eden, and Edw. Wm. Corry Astley, in which, under Capt. Clifford, he attended the Duke of Devonshire on the occasion of his splendid embassy to Russia in Sept. 1826. Between June, 1827, and May, 1832, he next served, as Midshipman, in the Clio 18, Capt. Robt. Deans, Tweed 28, Capt. Lord Henry John Spencer Churchill, and Prince Regent 120, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Wm. Parker, on the Irish station, at the Cape of Good Hope, and in the Tagus. Having passed his examination, he then proceeded to the West Indies as Mate of the Pearl 20, Capt. Robt. Gordon; after which he joined, in 1835, the Pylades 18, Capt. Wm. Langford Castle, an active anti-slaver, on the coast of Africa, and, in Nov. 1839, the Blonde 42, Capt. Thos. Bourchier, with whom he shared in the various operations connected with the campaign in China,[1] where he was appointed, 5 June, 1841, as Acting-Lieutenant, to the Blenheim 72, Capt. Thos. Herbert, and, by commission dated on 8 of the same month, to the Herald 26, Capt. Joseph Nias. Mr. Christopher, who returned to England in April, 1843, was subsequently appointed, 29 Aug. and 31 Dec. 1844, to the Excellent, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, and Acorn 16, Capt. John Elliot Bingham, in which latter vessel he is now serving, as First-Lieutenant, in the East Indies.
CHRYSTIE. (Lieut., 1809. f-p., 15; h-p., 32.)
Thomas Chrystie was born 28 April, 1787, at Balchrystie, in the parish of Newburn, co. Fife.
This officer entered the Navy, 2 July, 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ajax 80, Capt. Hon. Alex. Inglis Cochrane; and, continuing to serve in the same ship until the peace, attended the expeditions to Belleisle, Ferrol, Cadiz, and Egypt. After an intermediate attachment, with Capt. Chas. Stewart, to the Unicorn and Ethalion frigates, on the North Sea station, he joined, 25 Feb. 1805, the Defiance 74, Capts. Philip Chas. Durham and Henry Hotham; and, on 22 July and 21 Oct. following, shared, under the former officer, in Sir Robt. Calder’s action and in the battle of Trafalgar. He afterwards, until 1808, in March of which year he passed his examination, served, on the Home station, in the Eurydice 28, Capt. Sir Wm. Bolton, Snapper schooner, Lieut.-Commander W. B. Champion, Royal Sovereign yacht, Capt. Sir Harry Burrard Neale, and Valorous 20, Capt. Irvine. Proceeding then to the West Indies in the Gloire frigate, Capt. Jas. Carthew, he joined the Neptune 98, bearing the flag of his old Captain, Sir Alex. Cochrane, and while in that ship served on shore at the reduction of Martinique in Feb. 1809. Having attained the rank of Lieutenant on 8 of the latter month, Mr. Chrystie, in the course of the same year, joined the Wolverene brig, Capt. John Simpson, Félicité, Capt. John Lake, and also the Caesar 80, Capt. Chas. Richardson, by whom, in 1810, he was sent with a party of seamen to assist in the defence of the lines at Torres Vedras. On 10 June, 1811, we next find him appointed to the Sceptre 74, Capt. Sam. James Ballard, and in 1812 capturing, in command of the boats of that ship, a fort of 8 guns in Quiberon Bay, where he further destroyed several vessels that had taken shelter under its walls, and defeated two bodies of militia, armed with two field-pieces, one of which was taken and thrown into the sea. On one occasion also, in the month of Sept. 1811, he appears to have been in chase of the boats at the capture of a French merchant-sloop and five chasse-marées.[2] Mr. Chrystie, who, in the Sceptre and Marlborough, was afterwards actively employed in the Chesapeake, accompanied, in 1814-15, as First of the Alceste troop-ship, Capt. Dan. Lawrence, the force sent against New Orleans. He has not been officially employed since Nov. of the latter year. He married 31 Jan. 1837.
CHUBB. (Retired Commander, 1840. f-p., 21; h-p., 32.)
George James Chubb entered the Navy, 22 Jan. 1794, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Charon 44, Capt. Geo. Countess, with whom he shared in the victory of the 1st of June. He continued to serve with the same officer, until towards the close of the war, in the Pegasus 28, Daedalus 32, and Ethalion 38; and in the latter ship was present, on the coast of Ireland, at the capture, 12 Oct. 1798, of the French 40-gun frigate La Bellone, after a sharp conflict, and a trifling loss to the British. In the Daedalus he had been employed, as Midshipman, on the coast of Africa and in the West Indies. From Sept. 1802 until Oct. 1805 we next find Mr. Chubb doing duty on the Home station, in the Amazon 38, Capt. Sam. Sutton, Loire 38, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, and Majestic 74, Capt. Lord Amelius Beauclerk, flag-ship latterly of Rear-Admiral Thos. Macnamara Russell. He was then appointed Sub-Lieutenant of the Boxer gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Rich. Wilbraham; obtained a full Lieutenancy in the Rattler 16, Capt. Jas. John Chas. Agassiz, on the Newfoundland station, 15 Aug. 1806; and was afterwards appointed, 10 Feb. 1810 and 2 Dec. 1811, to the Tartar 32, Capt. Joseph Baker, and, as First-Lieutenant, to the Nymphen 36, Capts. John Hancock and Matthew Smith, attached to the force in the Baltic and North Sea. In the latter frigate he forced the Hondt passage in March, 1814, and on that occasion assisted in getting off the Antelope 50, which lay aground under a torrent of shells from the batteries of Flushing and Cadsand. Lieut. Chubb was paid off 28 Aug. 1815, and, unable to reprocure employment, accepted his present rank 16 Jan. 1840.
CHURCH. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 14; h-p., 25.)
John Church was born 31 Oct. 1793.
This officer entered the Navy 23 Oct. 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Bellerophon 74, Capt. Sam. Warren, flag-ship of Lord Gardner in the Downs; and on subsequently removing with the former officer, as Midshipman, to the President 38, assisted at the reduction of the island of Java in Aug. and Sept. 1811. From 1813 until the receipt of his commission, 23 June, 1815, he further served with Capt. Warren, in the Blenheim 74, and with Capt. Thos. Burton and Rear-Admiral Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming, in the Aquilon 32, and Elizabeth 74, on the Mediterranean station, off Lisbon, and at Gibraltar. His after-appointments were – 4 March, 1818, and 25 Feb. 1819, to the Ferret and Helicon, each of 10 guns, commanded by Capt. Wm. Robt. Ashley Pettman, on the Home station – 28 Nov. 1823, to the Phaeton 38, Capt. Henry Evelyn Pitfield Sturt, whom he accompanied to America and the Mediterranean – and, 21 June, 1826, as First-Lieutenant, to the Clio 18, Capts. Robt. Aitchison and Robt. Deans, employed on the coast of Scotland. In Nov. 1827, Mr. Church unfortunately suffered a severe injury in his sight, which in a few months terminated in total blindness. He was, in consequence, admitted to the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital 6 Dec. 1833.
