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Browse officers in command: A - B; C - E; F - G; H - K; L - O; P - R; S - T; U - Z; ??
| Samuel Gurney Cresswell R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Third son of Francis Cresswell | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| 1827 | Born | ||
| 14 August 1867 | Died (Kings Lynn) | ||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 10 September 1849 | Lieutenant | ||
| 21 October 1854 | Commander | ||
| 21 September 1858 | Captain | ||
| 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| 9 September 1863 | 24 September 1863 | Captain in Scylla (from commissioning at Sheerness), Sheerness, until superseded because of illness | |
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