A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bake, John Walland
BAKE. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
John Walland Bake entered the Navy, 8 April, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Avon 18, Capt. Fras. Jackson Snell, employed off Lisbon and Cadiz; became Midshipman, in Dec. 1806, of the Glatton 50, Capts. Thos. Secombe, John Clavell, Henry Hope, and Geo. Miller Bligh, on the Mediterranean station; removed in Aug. 1809, to the Cretan brig, Capt. Chas. Fred. Payne, in the North Sea, where he witnessed the capture, 28 Oct. 1810, of the privateer Neptune, of 5 guns and 24 men; and afterwards served, from June, 1812, until May, 1815, in the Teazer gun-brig and Racer schooner, both commanded by Lieut. John Julian, in the Channel and off the north coast of Spain, Salvador Del Mundo first-rate, bearing the flag at Plymouth of Vice-Admiral Wm. Domett, and Queen 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Chas. Vinicombe Penrose, in the Mediterranean. Mr. Bake, whose commission bears date 4 Feb. 1815, left the Queen in the following May, and has not since been employed.