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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 (1789-1861) | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| 1827 | Born (Kings Lynn, Norfolk) | ||
| 14 August 1867 | Died (Kings Lynn, Norfolk) | ||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 10 September 1849 | Lieutenant | ||
| 21 October 1854 | Commander | ||
| 21 September 1858 | Captain | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| 17 December 1849 | 15 April 1853 | Lieutenant and commander in Talbot, storeship, tender to Investigator, Edward Augustus Inglefield to Beechey Island to re-supply Edward Belcher's expedition searching for Sir John Franklins' ill-fated 1845 North-West Passage expedition | |
| 21 February 1854 | 24 December 1854 | Lieutenant in Archer, commanded by Captain Edmund Heathcote, the Baltic during the Russian War | |
| 13 February 1856 | 5 November 1856 | Commander in Sparrowhawk, Portsmouth | |
| 11 March 1857 | 26 January 1859 | Commander in Surprise, East Indies (including 2nd Anglo-Chinese War) | |
| 9 September 1863 | 25 September 1863 | Captain in Scylla (from commissioning at Sheerness), Sheerness, until superseded because of illness | |
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