A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Harvey, Charles Bernhard
HARVEY. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 16; h-p., 35.)
Charles Bernhard Harvey entered the Navy, in March, 1796, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Diamond 38, Capts. Sir Wm. Sidney Smith and Sir Rich. John Strachan; the former of whom, after a servitude of more than two years in the Channel, he rejoined, in July, 1798, as Midshipman, in the Tigre 74, on the Mediterranean station; where, during a continuance of four years, he witnessed the defence of Acre, and attended the expedition to Egypt. While next attached, between the summer of 1802 and the spring of 1806, to the Medusa 32 (of which vessel, commanded by the late Sir John Gore, he was confirmed a Lieutenant 13 Jan. 1803), Mr. Harvey, besides much active service in the Gut of Gibraltar, and ultimately escorting Lord Cornwallis as Governor-General to India, assisted at the capture of three Spanish frigates laden with treasure, and the destruction of a fourth, near Cape St. Mary, 5 Oct. 1804; as he also did at the detention, in the following month, of the Matilda 36, a frigate laden with a cargo of quicksilver worth 200,000l. He subsequently, on leaving the Medusa, joined, for a short period, the Aimable 32, Capt. Clotworthy Upton, lying at Portsmouth, and then the Pompée 74, in which ship, under the successive flags of Sir W. S. Smith and Hon. Hen. Edwin Stanhope, he attended the expeditions of 1807 to the Dardanells (where he contributed to the destruction of the Turkish shipping at Point Pesquies) and Copenhagen. With the exception of an interval in 1809-10, and of a few months in 1811 and again in 1812, during which he served with Capts. Hon. Anthony Maitland and Leveson Gower in the Pique 36 and Elizabeth 74, Mr. Harvey was further employed with Sir W. S. Smith, from Feb. 1808 until promoted to the rank of Commander 19 July, 1814, in the Foudroyant 80 and Hibernia 120, on the Brazilian and Mediterranean stations – participating, in the latter ship, in Sir Edw. Pellew’s partial actions with the Toulon fleet of 5 Nov. 1813 and 13 Feb. 1814. He has since been on half-pay. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.