A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Edmunds, Charles
EDMUNDS. (Commander, 1841. f-p., 24; h-p., 10.)
Charles Edmunds entered the Navy, 19 Dec. 1813, as Fst.-cl.. Vol., on board the Medway 74, Capt. Augustus Brine, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Tyler at the Cape of Good Hope, where he served until 1816. Re-embarking, in Dec. 1818, on board the Dauntless 24, Capts. Hon. Valentine Gardner and Geo. Cornish Gambier, he sailed for India. On his return home, towards the close of 1823, he successively joined, as Mate, the Queen Charlotte 100, and Victory 104, flag-ships at Portsmouth of Sir Jas. Hawkins Whitshed and Sir Geo. Martin, the Herald yacht, Capt. Henry John Leeke, and Druid frigate, Capt. Sam. Chambers. He was officially promoted, while serving as Acting-Lieutenant of the Magnificent receiving-ship at Jamaica, Capt. Wm. Molyneux, by commission dated 26 Oct. 1826, and was afterwards appointed – 2 June, 1828, 24 Sept. 1829, and 11 May, 1831, to the Ramillies 74, Talavera 74, and Barham 50, all commanded by Capt. Hugh Pigot, on the Downs and Mediterranean stations – 4 Oct. 1834, to the Winchester 50, in which ship he served for nearly four years under the flag of Hon. Sir Thos. Bladen Capel, Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies – and, 22 Aug. 1840, as First-Lieutenant, to the Calcutta 84, Capt. Sir Sam. Roberts, stationed in the Mediterranean. He rose to the rank he now holds 23 Nov. 1841; and, since 29 Aug. 1845, has been in command of the Heroine sloop, on the coast of Africa.