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Browse officers in command: A - B; C - E; F - G; H - K; L - O; P - R; S - T; U - Z; ??
| William Chimmo R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| 23 April 1826 | Born (Cork, Ireland) | ||
| Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society | |||
| 1860 | Wrote 'Euryalus; tales of the sea, a few leaves from the diary of a midshipman ' | ||
| 9 January 1860 | Married Isabella (1837-1919), daughter of James Watson (1790-1855) | ||
| 1870 | Wrote 'Bed of the Atlantic; from one sounding of 12,000 feet deep in the Atlantic Ocean, in latitude 47 north, longitude 23 west, are taken upwards of one hundred (microscopic drawings of) minute organisms' | ||
| 30 October 1891 | Died (Westdown Lodge, Wyke Regis, Dorset, England) | ||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 2 January 1848 | Mate | ||
| 2 October 1850 | Lieutenant | ||
| 4 January 1864 | Commander | ||
| 1 October 1873 | Retired Captain | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| 2 January 1848 | 18 September 1850 | Mate in Herald, commanded by Captain Henry Kellett, Pacific, conducting (together with Pandora, James Wood) a preliminary survey of the British Columbia coast following the Oregon boundary dispute with the United States | |
| 19 September 1850 | 1 October 1850 | Acting lieutenant in Herald, commanded by Captain Henry Kellett, Pacific | |
| 2 October 1850 | 16 June 1851 | Lieutenant in Herald, commanded by Captain Henry Kellett, Pacific | |
| 22 August 1851 | 10 December 1851 | Lieutenant in Fisgard, commanded by Commodore Henry Eden, Woolwich | |
| 18 February 1852 | 11 December 1855 | Lieutenant and commander in Torch, surveying, tender to Herald, Fiji Islands | |
| 10 January 1856 | 9 December 1856 | additional lieutenant in Juno, commanded by Captain Stephen Grenville Fremantle, Australia, for special service | |
| 24 May 1858 | 15 January 1862 | Lieutenant and commander in Seagull, surveying, tender to Porcupine | |
| 16 January 1862 | 3 January 1864 | additional Lieutenant in Fisgard, commanded by Commodore Frederick William Erskine Nicolson, Woolwich, surveying | |
| 4 January 1864 | 31 March 1864 | additinal Commander in Fisgard, commanded by Commodore Frederick William Erskine Nicolson, Woolwich, surveying | |
| 12 May 1865 | 30 June 1865 | Coast Guard | |
| 1 July 1865 | 5 October 1868 | Commander in Gannet (from commissioning at Plymouth until paying off at Plymouth), West Indies | |
| 22 April 1870 | 4 April 1873 | Commander in Nassau, China, surveying | |
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