Baldwin Wake Walker
Royal Navy admiral
Died when: 74 years 37 days (889 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Admiral Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, 1st Baronet, KCB, CMG (6 January 1802 – 12 February 1876) was Surveyor of the Navy from 1848 to 1861. and was responsible for the Royal Navy's warship construction programme during the 1850s naval arms race and at the time of the introduction of the Ironclad warship; it was his decision to build HMS Warrior.
He was created 1st Baronet Wake Walker, of Oakley House in 1856.
Related People
Royal Navy admiral
,_by_Cato_Lowes_Dickinson.jpg?width=300)
Royal Navy admiral
Royal Navy admiral
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License