A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Watkins, Thomas Vernon
WATKINS. (Captain, 1847.)
Thomas Vernon Watkins obtained his first commission 29 March, 1815. His , succeeding appointments were – 1 May, 1830, to the St. Vincent 120, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Foley at Portsmouth – 18 Feb. 1831, to the Asia 84, Capt. Hyde Parker, on the Lisbon station – and 19 Dec. 1831 and 1 Sept. 1835, to the Victory 104 and Britannia 120, bearing the flags, again at Portsmouth, of Sir T. Foley, Sir Thos. Williams, and Sir Philip Chas. Durham. Attaining the rank of Commander 10 Jan. 1837, he served in that capacity in the Cornwallis 72, flagship of Hon. Sir Chas. Paget, on the North America and West India station, from 15 Feb. 1837 until paid oif in 1839; in the Coast Guard from 5 Nov. 1839 until 1845; and in the Modeste 18, in the Pacific, from 27 Dec. 1845 until posted 29 April, 1847. Agent – Fred. Dufaur.