A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hawker, Henry Samuel
HAWKER. (Commander, 1846.)
Henry Samuel Hawker obtained his first commission 6 March, 1838; and then joined for a short period the Pearl 20, Capt. Lord Clarence Edw. Paget, lying at Sheerness. He was afterwards appointed – 14 Aug. 1839, to the Edinburgh 72, Capt. Wm. Wilmott Henderson, in which ship (besides commanding her launch and covering in a very excellent manner a party who had landed for the purpose of destroying a train which had been laid between the town and one of the castles at Beyrout containing 200 barrels of gunpowder[1]) he witnessed the fall of St. Jean d’Acre, 3 Nov. 1840 – 7 Sept. 1841, to the Aigle 24, Capt. Lord C. E. Paget, on the Mediterranean station – and, 11 Dec. 1845, to the Sampson steam-frigate, Capt. Thos. Henderson, attached to the force in South America, whence he came home in the spring of 1846. He was promoted to his present rank on 9 of the following Nov., and is now on half-pay. Agents – Messrs. Oramanney.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1840, p. 2609.