A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Burnett, William Farquharson
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BURNETT. (Commander, 1846.)
William Farquharson Burnett passed his examination in 1834, and obtained his first commission 28 June, 1838. His subsequent appointments were – 26 July, 1838, to the Rodney 92, Capt. Hyde Parker, employed in the Mediterranean – 21 Aug. following, as First-Lieutenant, to the Vesuvius steam-sloop, Capts. Thos. Henderson, Granville Gower Loch, and Erasmus Ommanney, on the same station – and, 19 Dec. 1844, in a similar capacity, to the Eagle 50, Capt. Geo. Bohun Martin, employed in North America and the West Indies. He was promoted from the latter vessel to the rank of Commander 9 Nov. 1846, and is at present on half-pay.