William Wharton (Royal Navy officer)

[2] He was born in London, the second son of Robert Wharton, County Court Judge of York.As captain of Shearwater he carried out extensive surveying the Sea of Marmora and the Bosphorus, as well as in the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean.In the Bosphorus he designed ingenious methods to measure the flow at different levels, showing currents and counter-currents.He collaborated with David Gill on this work, who became a lifelong friend, and would later be Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope.In 1885, on the death of Sir Frederick Evans he was appointed to the Royal Society committee studying the effects of the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883.
Admiralty Chart, Africa east coast Kilwa Point to Zanzibar Channel, Surveyed in 1874-7
British Association members of the voyage around Africa 1905. W. Warton in the top row, 6th from right
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