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Charles Stewart (
28 July 1778 -
6 November 1869) was an officer in the
United States Navy.
Born at
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Stewart went to sea at the age of thirteen as a
cabin boy and rose through the grades to become master of a merchantman. He grew up with Captain Stephen Decatur and Richard Rush. During the
Quasi-War with
France, Stewart was commissioned a lieutenant in the United States Navy on
9 March 1798 and joined the
frigate United States for a cruise in the
West Indies. He took command of the schooner
Experiment on
16 July 1800 and soon captured two armed French vessels and freed several captured American ships.
After brief command of
Chesapeake in 1801 and service in
Constellation in 1802, Stewart sailed to the
Mediterranean in command of the brig
Syren. There, he participated in the destruction of
Philadelphia after her capture by
Tripoli, helped to maintain the blockade of Tripoli, and distinguished himself in assaults on the enemy in August and September
1804. After the
First Barbary War, he participated in a show of force at
Tunis and returned home as captain in 1806. On the outbreak of the
War of 1812, Stewart commanded, successively,
Argus,
Hornet, and
Constellation.
Since
Constellation was closely blockaded in Norfolk by the British, he took command of
Constitution at
Boston in 1813. He made two brilliant cruises in her between 1813 and 1815. The frigate captured
HMS Cyane and
HMS Levant on
20 February 1815.
Stewart's later service included command of the American
Mediterranean squadron from 1816 to 1820 and of one in the
Pacific from 1820 to 1824. He served as a
Naval Commissioner from 1830 to 1832 and commanded the
Philadelphia Navy Yard from 1838 to 1841, in 1846, and again from 1854 to 1861. By a bill passed on
2 March 1859, Congress made Stewart “senior flag officer,” an office created for him in recognition of his distinguished and meritorious service. He became
rear admiral on the retired list on
16 July 1862, and he died at
Bordentown, New Jersey,
New Jersey, on
6 November 1869.
Several nephews served in the Navy, including Commodore Charles Stewart McCauley.
His grandson,
Charles Stewart Parnell, was a prominent Irish political leader who fought for Irish home rule until his untimely death in 1891.
Ships named in his honor
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