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STEWART BLACKER, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1821.]

Passed his examination for lieutenant in Mar. 1808; and was promoted to that rank on the 20th of the following month. He was wounded in a boat attack, while serving under Rear-Admiral Sotheby, Sept. 9, 1810[1]; advanced to the rank of commander, Feb. 1, 1812; appointed to the Chanticleer brig, May 3, 1813; to the Lee ship-sloop, Sept. 3, 1818; and posted November, 16, 1821.

Captain Blacker died at Dublin, about June, 1826.

  1. See Captain Thomas Pettman.

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