A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Baker, Charles Henry
BAKER. (Lieutenant, 1827.)
Charles Henry Baker is brother of Lieut. Gustavus Spicker Baker, R.N.
This officer passed his examination in 1817; and obtained his commission 9 Nov. 1827. He was subsequently appointed, – 26 July, 1828, as First Lieutenant, to the Meteor bomb, Capt. David Hope, employed for some time in blockading the port of Tangier – 4 Feb. 1830, as a Supernumerary-Lieutenant to the Asia 84, Capt. Wm. Jas. Hope Johnstone, in the Mediterranean – in May following, to the Samarang 28, Capt. Wm. Fanshawe Martin, on the same station – 20 Feb. 1833, to the Coast Guard – 13 June, 1839, and 6 Oct. 1840, to the successive command of the Fox and Stork Revenue cruizers – 9 Aug. 1842, to the Coast Guard again – 28 Jan. 1843, to the Harpy, another Revenue-vessel – and, 29 Jan. 1846, to the Vulcan steamer, also in the service of the Revenue, which he still commands.