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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 Aylmer Dorset Paynter R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| 17 December 1876 | Died | ||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 1 January 1826 | Entered Navy | ||
| 23 November 1841 | Lieutenant | ||
| 8 July 1846 | Commander | ||
| 17 April 1854 | Captain | ||
| 21 January 1870 | Rear-Admiral | ||
| 1 April 1870 | Retired Rear-Admiral | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| 5 February 1842 | Lieutenant in Agincourt, commanded by Henry William Bruce, flagship of Thomas John Cochrane, East Indies | ||
| 6 July 1846 | Lieutenant and commander in Royalist, East Indies | ||
| 29 March 1848 | 4 February 1852 | Commander in Gorgon (until paying off at Portsmouth), Pacific | |
| 30 May 1856 | 21 November 1857 | Captain in Brilliant (until paying off at Chatham), North America and West Indies | |
| 22 November 1857 | 1 May 1860 | Captain in Racoon (from commissioning at Chatham), Channel squadron | |
| 1 May 1860 | 14 October 1862 | Captain in Exmouth (until paying off), Mediterranean | |
| 14 April 1864 | 5 September 1864 | Captain in Majestic, Coast Guard, Liverpool (replaced by Donegal) | |
| 1 September 1864 | 1 May 1867 | Captain in Donegal (from commissioning at Plymouth), Coast Guard, Liverpool (replacing Majestic). On 6 November 1865 Paynter received the surrender of CSS Shenandoah, the last vessel to fly the Confederate flag in the American civil war, which had completed an epic voyage from the Pacific Ocean. | |
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