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See also:DOUGLAS, See also:SIR See also:CHARLES , See also:Bart. (d. 1789), See also:British See also:admiral, a descendant of the Scottish earls of See also:Morton, was promoted See also:lieutenant in the See also:navy on the 4th of See also:December 1753. Nothing is known of his See also:early See also:life. He became See also:commander on the 24th of See also:February 1759, and attained to See also:post See also:rank in 1761. When the See also:War of See also:American See also:Independence began, he took an active See also:part in the See also:defence of See also:Canada in 1775, and he afterwards commanded the " See also:Stirling See also:Castle " 64 in the See also:battle of the See also:Ushant, 27th of See also:July 1778. His reputation is based first on the part he played in the battle of See also:Dominica, 12th of See also:April 1782, and then on the improvements in gunnery which he introduced into the B itish navy. It appears from the testimony of Sir F. Thesiger (d. 18o5), who was See also:present on the See also:quarter-See also:deck of the See also:flagship, that Sir Charles Douglas, who was then See also:captain of the See also:fleet, first pointed out to See also:Rodney the possibility and the See also:advantage of passing through the See also:French See also:line. His See also:advice was taken with reluctance. On the other See also:hand, See also:Lord See also:Hood accuses Douglas of living in such abject fear of his admiral that he did not venture to speak with the freedom which his important post entitled him to take. His more certain claim to be ranked high among See also:naval See also:officers is founded on the many improvements he introduced into naval gunnery. Some See also:account of these will be found in the writings of his son. He became See also:rear-admiral on the 24th of See also:September 1787, and died
suddenly of See also:apoplexy in February 1789. He was made a See also:baronet for his services in the See also:West Indies.
There is a life of Sir Charles Douglas in See also:Charnock, Biogr. Nat). vi. 427.
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