Foley Charles Prendergast Vereker

Foley Charles Prendergast Vereker (21 June 1850 – 24 October 1900) was a Royal Navy Officer and hydrographic surveyor.

Vereker was born at Whitehall, London, the second son of the fourth Viscount Gort, and attended Burney's Academy, a Naval preparatory school in Gosport, Hampshire.

[1] Vereker was promoted to sub-lieutenant in 1870, and moved with Nassau to the China Station, where he worked on the survey of the Sulu Archipelago.

[6] He returned to work in the Magellan Strait in HMS Alert, and in 1879 joined the Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert.

[2] Vereker returned to surveying in 1883, taking command of his first ship, HMS Magpie for work on the China Station.

[4]: 345–347  In October they entered the Strait, and Vereker published an illustrated account of his observations on the aftermath of the eruption.

HMS Nassau with Mount Burney in the background. From Cunningham (1871) [ 1 ]
Vereker's illustration of the 1871 Camiguin eruption, from the Illustrated London News
Admiralty Chart of Diego Garcia , surveyed by Vereker in 1885