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Browse officers in command: A - B; C - E; F - G; H - K; L - O; P - R; S - T; U - Z; ??
| James John Gordon Bremer R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Only son of Lieutenant James Bremer, R.N. (1763-1786) lost in the Halswell East Indiaman, off the coast of Dorset on 6 January 1786 | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| 26 September 1786 | Born (Portsea, Hampshire, England) | ||
| 27 March 1811 | Married Harriet (died 1 March 1846), daughter of Thomas Wheeler of Waterford, and widow of Rev.George Henry Glasse | ||
| 1815 | C.B. (Companion of the Bath) | ||
| 25 January 1836 | K.C.H. (Knight Commander of the Royal Guelphic Order) | ||
| 23 February 1836 | Knighted | ||
| 29 June 1841 | K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath) | ||
| 14 February 1850 | Died (Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England) | ||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 1794 | Entered Navy | ||
| 3 August 1805 | Lieutenant | ||
| 13 October 1807 | Commander | ||
| 7 June 1814 | Captain | ||
| 15 September 1849 | Rear-Admiral | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| 20 August 1815 | Captain in Lee, Irish station | ||
| 30 May 1816 | 24 October 1816 | Captain in Comus, until wrecked on a reef off St Shotts, Newfoundland | |
| 8 September 1823 | Captain in Tamar, Australia (to establish the colony on Melville Island) and India (1824 Anglo-Burmese war) | ||
| 12 July 1837 | Captain in Alligator, Australia (founding the settlement at Port Essington) | ||
| 17 January 1840 | 7 July 1840 | Commander-in-chief, East Indies and China | |
| 30 November 1840 | 7 October 1841 | Commander-in-chief, East Indies and China | |
| 30 April 1846 | Commodore, and second-in-command, Channel squadron (with flag in Queen) | ||
| 24 November 1846 | Commodore in William and Mary, Woolwich, and Superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard | ||
| 24 October 1847 | Commodore in Fisgard, Woolwich | ||
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