A Naval Biographical Dictionary/King, Henry Bartlett
KING. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Henry Bartlett King was Midshipman of the Asia 84, Capt. Wm. Fisher, during the operations of 1840 on the coast of Syria. He passed his examination 12 April, 1842; served as Mate in the Daphne 18, Capt. John Jas. Onslow, Excellent gunnery-ship, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, and Cruizer 16, Capt. Edw. Gennys Fanshawe, on the Pacific, Home, and East India stations; obtained his commission 7 Feb. 1846; and on 11 of the same month was appointed Additional-Lieutenant of the Agincourt 72, flag-ship of Sir Thos. John Cochrane, also in the East Indies. While in the Cruizer we find him assisting at the destruction, 19 Aug. 1845, by a force under Capt. Chas. Talbot, of the piratical settlement of Malloodoo, the fiercely-defended stronghold of a Borneo chieftain named Scheriff Osman.