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2 Dec. 1829, into the Dartmouth 42, Capt. Sir Thos. Fellowes. Lieut. Cary’s next appointments were – 24, Nov. 1830, and 27 Jan. 1832, to the Prince Regent 120, and Ocean 80, flag-ships at Sheerness of Sir John Poo Beresford – and, 13 June, 1833, and 10 March, 1834, to the Conway 28, Capt. Henry Eden, and Spartiate 76, bearing the flag of Sir Mich. Seymour on the South American station. He obtained his second commission 31 Oct. 1834 – was appointed, 28 Feb. 1837, to command the Comus 18, in the West Indies – became a Post-Captain 9 May, 1839 – and has since been on half-pay.
Capt. Cary married, 27 April, 1843, Mary Ann, only child of J. F. Maubert, Esq., of Norwood, co. Surrey. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
CASE. (Retired Capt., 1846. f-p., 23; h-p., 34.)
William Case entered the Navy, 15 Jan. 1790, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Hebe 38, Capt. Alex. Hood, and, in March, 1792, was transferred to the Juno 32, Capt. Sam. Hood, both stationed in the Channel. From May, 1793, to April, 1796, he again served in the Hebe, as Midshipman, under Capts. A. Hood, Paul Minchin, and Mat. Henry Scott, in the West Indies, where we find him, after a short attachment to the Majestic 74, flag-ship of Sir John Laforey, promoted, 3 Oct. 1797, to a Lieutenancy in La Victorieuse 14, Capts. Edw. Stirling Dickson and Richardson. While in the latter vessel he cut out a Spanish schooner from under the fire of a privateer and two batteries at Port Espana, Trinidad – took part, 7 May, 1798, in a very creditable action with two French privateers, the smaller of whom, a sloop of 6 guns and 50 men, was captured, and the other, a schooner of 12 guns and 80 men, put to flight – and, in Dec. following, witnessed the surrender of two forts near the river Caribe, besides valiantly contributing, in joint command of a party of 70 seamen, to the capture and destruction, at Gurupano, of two others, defended by at least 300 men, and of the Couleuvre, of 6 guns and 80 men.[1] Lieut. Case’s next appointments were, 27 Aug. 1801, 20 April, 1804, and 21 Dec. 1805, to the Beaver sloop, Capt. Christopher Basset Jones, Magdalene, Capt. Joseph Lamb Popham, and Agincourt 64, Capts. Thos. Briggs and Henry Hill, on the Home station; after which he served, from Jan. 1806 to June, 1812, under Sir Sam. Hood, on board the Centaur 74, Hibernia 110, Tigre 74, Owen Glendower 36, and Illustrious 74, off the Western Islands, and in the Mediterranean, Baltic, and East Indies. During the period of his attachment to the Centaur, Mr. Case, as First Lieutenant, was meritoriously present, 25 Sept. 1806, at the capture, in company with the Mars and Monarch 74’s, of four heavy French frigates from Rochefort, on which occasion Sir S. Hood lost his arm.[2] He also attended, in Aug. and Sept. 1807, the expedition to Copenhagen – beheld, in Dec. of the same year, the surrender of Madeira – ably assisted, in conjunction with the Implacable 74, at the taking, 26 Aug. 1808, in sight of the whole Russian fleet, near Rogerswick, of the 74-gun ship Sewolod, after a close and furious conflict, in which the Centaur lost 3 killed and 27 wounded, and the enemy 180 killed and wounded[3] – and, in Aug. 1809, was engaged, under Capt. Wm. Henry Webley, in the attack upon Walcheren. After holding for two months the appointment of Lieutenant-Governor of Madras Hospital, he was promoted, 7 Aug. 1812, to the command of the Hecate sloop; and, on 15 of the same month, he joined the Samarang, of 16 guns, of which he appears to have retained command, in New South Wales, until 24 March, 1814. He has since been on half-pay. His acceptance of the rank he now holds took place 14 May, 1846.
Capt. Case, in the early part of his career, also assisted at the reduction of Ste. Lucie and Trinidad. He married, 15 Sept. 1829, a daughter of Henry Hallett, Esq., of Chidcook, Devon.
CASEY. (Lieut., 1799. f-p., 29; h-p., 29.)
David O'Brien Casey entered the Navy, in 1789, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Hyaena 24, Capts. John Aylmer, Jas. Kinneer, and Wm. Hargood, which ship, the first lost by the British during the war, was captured by the French 40-gun frigate Concorde, off Hispaniola, 27 May, 1793. On regaining his liberty soon afterwards, Mr. Casey obtained a Midshipman’s berth in the Hermione 32, Capts. John Hill and Philip Wilkinson, also on the Jamaica station; where, in 1795-6, he became successively attached to the Raisonnable 64, and Swiftsure 74, both flag-ships of Rear-Admiral Wm. Parker, and, as Acting-Lieutenant, to. the Ambuscade 32, Capt. Thos. Twysden; and where he rejoined, early in 1797, the Hermione, then commanded by Capt. Hugh Pigot. A fearful mutiny, on 23 Sept. following, broke out among the crew of the latter ship, and, in the general massacre of the officers which ensued, Mr. Casey, the Master, Gunner, Carpenter, and Cook, were the only persons who escaped destruction. Of these, the subject of this sketch is now the only survivor. On his subsequent return to England, after a captivity of some months at La Guayra, on the Spanish Main, Mr. Casey in succession joined, on the Home station, the Achilles 74, Capts. Hon. Henry Edwin Stanhope and Geo. Murray, Royal George 100, bearing the flag of Lord Bridport, and, as Acting-Lieutenant, the Monarch 74, Capt. T. R. Mosse, and another ship, the name of which we do not happen to possess. He was confirmed, 11 Oct. 1799, into the Nemesis 28, Capt. Thos. Baker, and, on 12 Jan. and 25 July, 1800, appears, while cruizing in the Channel, to have assisted at the capture of Le Renard a heavy privateer, and, after a sharp struggle of 25 minutes, of the Danish frigate Freija, and convoy. Towards the close of the latter year we find him, as First Lieutenant of Le Sensible, Capt. Robt. Tause, sailing for the East Indies, where he continued two years; after which he served, until 1805, in the Magicienne and Fortunée frigates, Capt. Henry Vansittart – again, as First Lieutenant, in the Merlin sloop, Capt. Robt. Forbes – and in the Astrea 32, Capt. Jas. Carthew, on the Home and West India stations. He afterwards for eight years commanded a Signal station and a body of Sea Fencibles in Ireland; and was then appointed, 6 March and 10 May, 1813, to the Albion 74, Capt. John Ferris Devonshire, fitting out at Chatham, and, as Senior, to the Clarence 74, Capts. H. Vansittart and Fred. Warren, with whom he served, off Brest, until Aug. 1814. On 6 Dec. 1835, he next obtained charge of the Semaphore at Putney; but resigned that employment on being appointed, 15 Oct. 1839, to the Royal Hospital at Greenwich.
Lieut. Casey is married, and has, with other issue, a son, Thomas Page, Second Lieutenant, R.M. (1843), now serving in the Mediterranean, on board the America 50, Capt. Hon. John Gordon.
CASHMAN. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
William Cashman entered the Navy in 1830; passed his examination 4 April, 1838; and served, as Mate, in the Edinburgh 72, Capt. Wm. Wilmott Henderson, Electra 18, Capt. Arthur Darley, and Hermes steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander Washington Carr, on the Mediterranean and North America and West India stations. He obtained his commission 1 Dec. 1845, and still serves in North America and the West Indies, as Additional-Lieutenant of the Vindictive 50, flag-ship of Sir Fras. Wm. Austen.
CASTLE. (Captain, 1841. f-p., 23; h-p., 11.)
William Langford Castle, born 31 March, 1800, is only son of William Castle, Esq., of Sittingbourne, co. Kent.
This officer entered the Navy, 19 May, 1813, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Caledonia 120, Capt. Jeremiah Coghlan, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Pellew; in which he was present, 5 Nov. 1813, and, as Midshipman, 13 Feb. 1814, in two skirmishes with the
