A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Cooke, John (b)
COOKE. (Lieutenant, 1824.)
John Cooke (b) died in Aug. 1846.
This officer entered the Navy 29 May, 1819; obtained his commission 9 Jan. 1824; and, from about that period until 1827, served, on the Halifax and South American stations, in the Doterel 18, Capt. Rich. Hoare, and Adventure surveying sloop, Capt. Philip Parker King. Of the former vessel he was First-Lieutenant. He did not go afloat after leaving the Adventure.