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Browse officers in command: A - B; C - E; F - G; H - K; L - O; P - R; S - T; U - Z; ??
| Edward Belcher R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| 27 February 1793 | Born | ||
| 11 September 1830 | Married Diana Jolliffe, granddaughter of Colonel Simpson, of Plean House, Falkirk | ||
| 6 May 1841 | C.B. (Companion of the Bath), for service in the first Anglo-Chinese war | ||
| 1843 | Wrote 'Narrative of a Voyage round the World, performed in H.M.S. Sulphur, during the years 1836-42'. | ||
| 13 March 1867 | K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath). | ||
| 18 March 1877 | Died | ||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 21 July 1818 | Lieutenant | ||
| 16 March 1829 | Commander | ||
| 6 May 1841 | Captain | ||
| 11 February 1861 | Rear-Admiral | ||
| 2 April 1866 | Vice-Admiral | ||
| 1866 | Retired Vice-Admiral | ||
| 20 October 1872 | Retired Admiral | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| 27 May 1830 | 10 September 1833 | Commander in Aetna, surveying off the east coast of Africa (including the Arguin shoals on which the French frigate Meduse was wrecked , then (end of 1832) in the River Douro as part of the British squadron under William Glascock ( Orestes) during the Portuguese civil war, then (1833) surveying in the Mediterranean | |
| 9 November 1836 | 2 August 1842 | Commander in Sulphur, South America, later East Indies (including the first Anglo-Chinese war) | |
| 18 November 1842 | 18 January 1847 | Captain in Samarang (until paying off at Sheerness), East Indies | |
| 2 January 1847 | Commander in Mastiff (from commissioning at Woolwich) | ||
| 10 February 1852 | 25 August 1854 | Captain in Assistance, particular service: searching, together with Pioneer (Sherard Osborn, tender to Assistance), Resolute (Henry Kellett) and Intrepid ( McClintock, tender to Resolute) for Sir John Franklins' ill-fated 1845 North-West Passage expedition, until abandoned at Bathurst Island | |
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