Foley Charles Prendergast Vereker

Foley Charles Prendergast Vereker (21 June 1850 – 24 October 1900) was a Royal Navy Officer and hydrographic surveyor. He is particularly noted as an artist who produced navigational views and illustrations of the places he worked.

Life HMS Nassau with Mount Burney in the background. From Cunningham (1871) 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. He entered the Royal Navy in 1863, and joined the surveying branch in 1868 as a midshipman on HMS Nassau, surveying in the Strait of Magellan. His illustration of Nassau in the Strait was used as the frontispiece of the published account of the natural history of the voyage. In 1875 he took part in the bombardment of Mombasa in support of the Sultan of Zanzibar against a rebel chief. In 1876 he married Ellen Amelia Wilshere. He returned to work in the Magellan Strait in , and in 1879 joined the Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert. He was promoted to Commander in 1881.

Views of Krakatoa after the eruptions of 1883. From Vereker (1883) He was promoted to captain in 1888.