A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Harston, Henry Cooke
HARSTON. (Commander, 1845.)
Henry Cooke Harston entered the Navy 16 Aug. 1826; passed his examination in 1832; and, on his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 26 Oct. 1840, was appointed to the Albert steamer, Capt. Henry Dundas Trotter, employed on an expedition up the river Niger. Quitting the latter vessel towards the close of 1841, he was subsequently appointed First, 15 April, 1842, and 25 Jan. 1845, of the Philomel surveying-vessel, and Eclair steam-sloop, commanded on the Brazilian and African stations by Capts. Bartholomew Jas. Sulivan and Walter Grimston Bucknall Estcourt. Having the good fortune to survive the ravages of the fearful disease which, in Sept. 1845, swept away the Captain and nearly the whole of the crew belonging to the Eclair, Mr. Harston, on his arrival home, was promoted to his present rank by commission bearing date 6 Dec. in the same year. He has since been on half-pay.