< Royal Naval Biography
CHRISTOPHER WATSON, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1810.]
Received his first commission about June, 1782; and served as senior Lieutenant of the Lancaster 64, Captain (now Sir John) Wells, at the defeat of the Dutch fleet, near Camperdown, Oct. 11, 1797[1]; immediately after which he was promoted to the rank of Commander. His post commission bears date Oct. 21, 1810; and we subsequently find him employed in the transport service, at Ramsgate. He died in Nov. 1823.
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