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Browse officers in command: A - B; C - E; F - G; H - K; L - O; P - R; S - T; U - Z; ??
| Henry Samuel Hawker R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Fouth son of General Sir Samuel Hawker, Colonel of the 3rd Dragoon Guards | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| May 1889 | Died (London) | ||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 6 March 1838 | Lieutenant | ||
| 9 November 1846 | Commander | ||
| 9 July 1861 | Captain | ||
| 12 October 1868 | Retired Captain | ||
| 21 September 1876 | Retired Rear-Admiral | ||
| 3 January 1881 | Retired Vice-Admiral | ||
| 12 April 1886 | Retired Admiral | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| 6 March 1838 | 2 January 1839 | Lieutenant in Pearl, commanded by Lord Clarence Edward Paget, Sheerness | |
| 14 August 1839 | Lieutenant in Edinburgh, commanded by William Willmott Henderson, Mediterranean (including operations on the coast of Syria in 1840) | ||
| 7 September 1841 | Lieutenant in Aigle, commanded by Lord Clarence Edward Paget, Mediterranean | ||
| 11 December 1845 | 1846 | Lieutenant in Sampson, Pacific | |
| 26 October 1848 | 29 April 1852 | Commander in Orestes (until paying off at Portsmouth), Cape of Good Hope | |
| 4 November 1855 | 16 May 1854 | Commander in Hecla (until paying off at Portsmouth), Mediterranean1) | |
| 23 November 1859 | Commander (2ic) in Fisgard, commanded by James Robert Drummond, Woolwich | ||
| 1) | A court-martial on 30 April 1855, to investigate the grounding of Hecla off Gibraltar on 23 January 1855 severely repremanded Hawker, and dismissed the Master, E.J.H. Tucker, from the ship. |
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