A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Carthew, John
CARTHEW. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 31.)
John Carthew entered the Navy, 4 May, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Astrea 32, Capt. Jas. Carthew, with whom he continued, in the same ship, and the Crescent 36, on the North Sea station, until April, 1806. He then joined the Agincourt 64, Capt. Henry Hill, whom he accompanied to St. Helena; and, in April, 1808, became attached, as Midshipman, to the Tartar 32, Capts. Geo. Edm. Byron Bettesworth and Jos. Baker. On 15 May following he took part in a severe conflict of an hour and a half between the Tartar and a Danish flotilla, off Bergen, on the coast of Norway, in which Capt. Bettesworth was killed; and, under Capt. Baker, after capturing, with many other vessels, the Danish privateer Naargske Gutten of 7 guns and 36 men, and spending much time in protecting the trade through the Belt, he was wrecked on a sand in the Baltic, 18 Aug. 1811. In Sept. 1812, Mr. Carthew next joined the Nymphen 36, Capts. John Hancock and Matthew Smith, in which we find him conveying the Duke of Cumberland from Yarmouth to Gottenborg, in April, 1813 – employed, in November following, in laying down buoys for the safe passage of Admiral Young’s fleet into the Roompot – and contributing, in March, 1814, to the rescue of the Antelope 50, when that ship lay aground under a shower of shot and shells from the batteries of Flushing and Cadsand. Early in 1815 he sailed for the East Indies, with the flag of Sir Geo. Burlton, in the Cornwallis 74, and he was there confirmed to a Lieutenancy in the Volage 22, Capts. Joseph Drury and John Reynolds, 24 Nov. 1815. He returned to England and was paid off in Aug. 1817, and has not since been employed.