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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 Fitzjames R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| 1850 | Died (on Franklin's fatal last expedition to find a North-West passage); exact date unknown | ||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 25 August 1825 | Entered Navy | ||
| 19 January 1838 | Lieutenant | ||
| 23 December 1842 | Commander | ||
| 31 December 1845 | Captain | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| 19 January 1838 | Lieutenant in Excellent, commanded by Thomas Hastings, gunnery ship, Portsmouth | ||
| 13 October 1838 | Lieutenant in Ganges, commanded by Barrington Reynolds, Mediterranean (including operations on the coast of Syria in 1840) | ||
| 27 May 1841 | 23 December 1842 | Lieutenant in Cornwallis, commanded by Peter Richards, flagship of Rear-Admiral William Parker, East Indies (including the first Anglo-Chinese war) | |
| 30 December 1842 | Commander in Clio, East Indies | ||
| 4 March 1845 | Commander (2ic) in Erebus, commanded by James Clark Ross, patricular service (together with Terror, Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier, the ill-fated British Naval Northwest Passage Expedition, 1845-1848, led by Franklin, and sent by the Admiralty to search for a Northwest Passage beyond Lancaster Sound and Barrow Strait in the unexplored region south-west of Barrow Strait) | ||
| 11 June 1847 | 1850 | Acting Captain in Erebus, after Sir John Franklin died, and until he himself died | |
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