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Browse officers in command: A - B; C - E; F - G; H - K; L - O; P - R; S - T; U - Z; ??
| Peter Cracroft R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Second son of Robert Cracroft, of Hackthorn, Lincolnshire | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| 15 March 1816 | Born | ||
| 2 August 1865 | Died | ||
| Entry in O'Byrnes 1849 'Naval Biographical Dictionary' | |||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 4 June 1830 | Entered Navy | ||
| 26 August 1841 | Lieutenant | ||
| 12 October 1846 | Commander | ||
| 20 November 1854 | Captain | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| 6 August 1842 | 12 October 1846 | Lieutenant in Victory, flagship of Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, flag-lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, Admiral-Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard | |
| November 1846 | To study steam at Woolwich | ||
| 4 July 1848 | 31 May 1851 | Commander in Reynard (from commissioning at Woolwich), Sir Charles Napier's western squadron, then the East Indies; acting against pirates in Chinese seas until the vessel was wrecked off Pratas shoal, China, when she struck an unknown rock after she left Hong Kong to return to Woolwich to pay off, but first to go with brig Pilot to rescue the crew of the brig Velocipede on Pratas shoal, 170 miles southeast of Hong Kong (all saved) | |
| 21 May 1853 | 20 April 1854 | Commander (2ic) in St Jean d'Acre, commanded by Henry Keppel, Devonport | |
| May 1854 | 20 November 1854 | Commander in Gorgon, the Baltic during the Russian War | |
| 15 February 1858 | Acting Captain in Diadem, during the ilness of Captain William Moorsom | ||
| 8 September 1858 | 13 September 1861 | Captain in Niger (until paying off at Woolwich), East Indies and China then Australia and New Zealand Wars | |
| 19 September 1862 | 31 March 1865 | Captain in Aboukir, flagship of Commodore Hugh Dunlop, Receiving ship, Jamaica | |
| 1 May 1865 | 2 August 1865 | Commodore in Aboukir, Receiving ship, Jamaica (until he died) | |
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