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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 Augustus Poland R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| March 1918 | Died (South Kensington) | ||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 19 July 1846 | Entered Navy | ||
| 3 February 1855 | Lieutenant | ||
| 9 November 1863 | Commander | ||
| 24 July 1871 | Captain | ||
| 29 September 1886 | Retired Captain | ||
| 1 January 1888 | Retired Rear-Admiral | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| 7 February 1855 | 25 May 1855 | Lieutenant in Excellent, commanded by Thomas Maitland, gunnery ship, Portsmouth | |
| 25 May 1855 | Lieutenant in Meteor, commanded by Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, the Crimea | ||
| 20 March 1860 | Lieutenant in Pioneer, commanded by Hugh A Reilly, East Indies and China | ||
| (1863) | Lieutenant in Pearl during the bombardment of Kagoshima ("Anglo-Satsuma War") resulting from the "Namamugi Incident", a samurai attack on foreign nationals in Japan on September 14, 1862. | ||
| 24 September 1867 | 1871 | Commander in Plover, west coast of Africa, then North America and West Indies | |
| 4 November 1875 | 23 October 1879 | Captain in Juno (from commissioning at Sheerness until paying off at Sheerness), China | |
| 1 January 1881 | 18 September 1883 | Captain in Valiant | |
| 18 September 1883 | 29 September 1886 | In command of the Naval Barracks, Sheerness | |
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