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 1805. We first find him in the Belliqueux 64, Captain George Byng, under whom he served on shore, as a volunteer, with the marine brigade, at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope, in Jan. 1806, and afterwards on the East India station. On the 26th Aug. 1807, he commanded a boat in an affray with two Malay proas, on which occasion Mr. Turner, acting lieutenant, and six men were killed. His subsequent gallant conduct as first lieutenant of the Piedmontaise frigate. Captain Charles Foote, at the storming of the defences of Banda-Neira, the principal of the Dutch Spice Islands, was duly represented by the senior officer, Captain (now Sir Christopher) Cole.

On the 22d Nov. 1813, Lieutenant Carew was appointed to the Rodney 74, Captain Charles Inglis; in which ship he continued until promoted to the command of the Jasper sloop, June 7th, 1814.

In Aug. 1816, the Jasper accompanied the expedition destined against Algiers to Gibraltar; from whence she returned home with Lord Exmouth’s despatches. On the night of the 19th Jan. 1817, she was totally wrecked, in Plymouth Sound, when of 67 persons on board, including Mr. Edward Smith (master and commanding officer), Mr. Robert Marshall (purser), Mr. Godfrey Martin (master’s-mate), and Messrs. William Doles and S.W. Williams (midshipmen), with fifteen females, all but two men perished. The storm which caused her destruction is thus spoken of in the “Plymouth Telegraph:”

“During the greater part of Sunday, Jan. 19th, the weather bore a very portentous appearance, as if the elements were preparing a terrific mischief. As the night drew near, every thing betokened an approaching hurricane. The wind suddenly turned into the S.S.E. quarter and oscillating, at intervals, between that and S.S.W. blew with a fury, which, joined to an extraordinary high tide, the tremendous violence of the waves, and a pitchy darkness that might almost be felt, created the irresistible presentiment of some awful catastrophe. About four o’clock in the morning of Monday, the tempest had increased to a perfect hurricane, and