Edward Hawker was an officer of the Royal Navy who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
H.M.S. Theseus Vice Admiral Dacres, in the Hurricane. One of four plates showing HMS Theseus battling to survive the hurricane. 1809 engraving by Edward Burn.
HMS Bellerophon, detail from Scene in Plymouth Sound in August 1815, an 1816 painting by John James Chalon. Hawker commanded her off North America and in the West Indies between 1813 and 1815.
James Hawker (Royal Navy officer)
Captain James Hawker was an English officer in the Royal Navy. After service on the Shrewsbury and Sheerness, he was appointed first lieutenant of the Colchester at the end of 1755, and was posted in 1768. With the Iris he fought a drawn battle with La Touche Treville in the more powerful frigate Hermione off New York in 1780. He commanded the Hero in Porto Praya under Commodore George Johnstone in 1781, after which he had no further service.
James Hawker (Royal Navy officer)