William Carleton

Notes on Officer

William Carleton is son of the late General Carleton.

This officer entered the Navy, 24 April, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Leopard 50, Capt. Jas. Nicoll Morris, with whom, on removing to the Colossus 74, he was present, as Midshipman, at the battle of Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805. In Jan. 1806, he became Master’s-Mate of the Amazon 38, Capt. Wm. Parker, and, on 13 March following, assisted, in company with the London 98, at the capture, after a long running-fight and a loss to the Amazon of 3 men killed and 6 wounded, of the French 80-gun ship Marengo, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule. A few days after passing his examination, Mr. Carleton was promoted, 18 July, 1810, to a Lieutenancy in the Téméraire 98, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Rear-Admiral Fras. Pickmore; subsequently to which we find him joining, in the course of 1812 – the Union 98, Capt. Sam. Hood Linzee, at Plymouth – Tremendous 74, Capt. Robt. Campbell, with whom he returned to the Mediterranean – and Royal George, bearing the flag on that station of Vice-Admiral Pickmore. He came home and was paid off in July, 1814; was afterwards appointed, 6 Jan. 1824, First-Lieutenant of the Jupiter 60, flagship at Halifax of Rear-Admiral Willoughby Thos. Lake; and attained his present rank, on his arrival in England as Acting-Commander of the Rifleman of 18 guns, 2 Dec. 1826. He has since been on half-pay.

Commander Carleton married, in 1832, Rosamond, daughter of the late General Leonard Shafto Orde, of Weetwood Hall, co. Northumberland.