A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Watson, Christopher Robert
WATSON. (Lieutenant, 1828.)
Christopher Robert Watson died about the commencement of 1847.
This officer entered the Navy, 18 May, 1810; passed his examination in 1816; and was made Lieutenant, 28 March, 1828, into the Zebra 18, Capts. Brunswick Popham and Edm. Williams Gilbert, on the Mediterranean station; whence he returned to England about Jan. 1829. His last appointment was, 8 Oct. 1838, to the Coast Guard; a service in which he remained but a very brief period.