Samuel Gurney Cresswell R.N.
Samuel Gurney Cresswell R.N.
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Samuel Gurney Cresswell R.N. | Explanation |
Third son of Francis Cresswell |
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Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal |
1827 | | Born |
14 August 1867 | | Died (Kings Lynn) |
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Date | Rank |
10 September 1849 | Lieutenant |
21 October 1854 | Commander |
21 September 1858 | Captain |
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Date from | Date to | Service |
22 February 1854 | | Lieutenant and commander in Talbot, storeship, together with Investigator, Edward Augustus Inglefield to to Beechey Island to re-supply Edward Belcher's expedition searching for Sir John Franklins' ill-fated 1845 North-West Passage expedition |
(15 March 1854) | | Lieutenant in Archer, commanded by Edmund Heathcote |
(5 April 1856) | | Commander in Sparrowhawk |
11 March 1857 | | Commander in Surprise, East Indies (including 2nd Anglo-Chinese War) |
9 September 1863 | 24 September 1863 | Captain in Scylla (from commissioning at Sheerness), Sheerness, until superseded because of illness |