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A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Watson, Christopher Robert

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2000110A Naval Biographical Dictionary — Watson, Christopher RobertWilliam Richard O'Byrne

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.