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William Walker

NationalityBritish
RolesNaval Sailor
First Known Service3.8.1793CSORN
Last Known Service8.1800CSORN

Event History

Date from	Date to	Event	Source
3.8.1793		Lieutenant	CSORN
3.8.1793	1794	Colossus (74) 1787-1798 British 74 Gun 3rd Rate Ship of the Line , Fifth Lieutenant ADM 6/25/54 Issued by Alexander Arthur HoodBritish Naval Sailor Service 1741-1805 , English Channel Confirmed 1.7.1794	ADM 6/25
28.9.1795		Rose (8) 1793-1801 British 8 Gun Hired Cutter , Lieutenant, and Commanding Officer	W005
28.9.1795		Action of 1795-09-28
6.1798	8.1800	Sparkler (14) 1797-1802 British 14 Gun Unrated Gunboat 1797 Renamed "Sparkler" , Lieutenant, and Commanding Officer	TNC
26.6.1800		Dismissed from the Navy	TNC

Notes on Officer

From the Naval Gazette Vol IV
June 26 1800
A Court Martial was held on board the Gladiator, for the trial of Lieutenant WILLIAM WALKER, commanding his Majesty's gun-vessel Sparkler, on a charge of having repeatedly answered, at the time of muster, for men who ran away from the boat, and said they were on liberty; and also for having answered for his own child, aged one year, rated A. B. and said he was on shore on duty ; and for having sent one of the ship's company (then on board) assuming the name of William Walker, his son, and received five pounds bounty, in Portsmouth; and of having shortened the fresh provisions from the ship's company, and drew it onshore for the use of his own table, and sent salt herrings on board, which he vended to the crew without a vegetable of any species; and that he also drew the full provisions for fifty men, that complement not being complete.

The Court being of opinion that, the charges had been in part proved against the said Lieutenant William Walker, Did adjudge him to be dismissed from his Majesty's service.

Sources

IDNameAuthorType

ADM 6/25 Archive

CSORNDavid Bonner-Smith, Robert L. DiNardo, David Syrett, Web Site

TNCVarious, Periodical

W005William James, Digital Book

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