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Jack Aubrey's Career Prior to the Books

by Dick Ellis
 

Ref Age Date Rank Ship Comment
  0 1771     Born
M&C 30 9 1780     nominally at sea
M&C 30 12 1783 Capts. Svt.   actually at sea
HMSS 367 12 1783 Capts. Svt.   afloat since 12
TH 275 12 1783 Capts. Svt. Resolution  
SM 63   1783     30 yrs since JA felt seasick (1813)
TL 191     Capts. Svt.   "under a nephew of Adm. Boscawen, when 1st in Navy"
WDS 17     Capts. Svt. Minerva "coming back from Cape at Xmas, very young"
MC 159     Capts. Svt. Ramillies first hanging
M&C 147   1784     on shore at Guy Fawkes?
TH 308   1785     at Zambra nearly 30 years ago (1814)
FW 98     Youngster Ajax fought Appolon
C 4     Youngster Bellerophon "W. Indies, with H. Dundas"
FW 193 13?   Youngster Andromache paid off--returned from W Indies
DI 267       Andromache "recognizes seaman shipmate, much later"
FW 203     Youngster Goliath before Resolution
M&C 235     Youngster Resolution most junior mid
IM 277     Youngster Queen  
M&C 235     Youngster Success  
NC 221     Youngster Sylph  
M&C 87     Youngster Theseus  
IM 48     ? Theseus shipmates with Edward Calamy
DI 17     Youngster Tonnant saw Bounty mutineers hang
MC 210     Oldster   brought prize to Plymoth from Finisterre before voice broke
SM 171-72     Oldster   played Ophelia in W Indies before voice broke
PC 191     Oldster Britannia midshipman in "Old Ironsides"
HMSS 147       Britannia "Old Ironsides"
MC 33     Oldster Circe at Dry Salvages
OSW 336     Oldster Namur escorting Archangel trade
M&C 144     Oldster Resolution Cape
MC 56-57     Oldster Resolution Cape
HMSS 42     Oldster Surprise midshipman
IM 137     Oldster Surprise W Indies
HMSS 251     ? Surprise cut topmast cap out of greenheart on Spanish Main
HMSS 293     Oldster packet mid homeward bound from Nova Scotia
OSW 133     Master's Mate Formidable  
TH 48     Master's Mate Fortitude after Resolution
SM 251-52 17   Master's Mate Resolution storming Camaret battery
HMSS 111     Master's Mate Surprise master's mate
HMSS 106     Master's Mate Surprise on Leeward Islands Station
HMSS 251     ? Surprise cut topmast cap out of greenheart on Spanish Main
FW 194 17-18   Master's Mate Romulus passage home with Broke
TH 48 18 1789 Master's Mate   examined for lieutenant
OSW 86   1791 Master's Mate   Nootka Sound--"Spanish Disturbance"
OSW 87   1792 Lieutenant   winter--beginning of Spanish Armament
SM 35   1792     afloat since
WDS 63   1792 Lieutenant   Lieutenant's commission
WDS 62   1792 Lieutenant Queen 5th lt--1st commissioned berth
M&C 145     Lieutenant Hannibal 5th lt.
LM 138   1792     burning of St. Martin's at "beginning of war"
NC 178   1793 Lieutenant Bellerophon took passage
M&C 375     Lieutenant Leander when taken [by Genereux]
DI 188     Lieutenant Theseus clawing off Penmarks
M&C 11     Lieutenant Theseus kept a watch
IM 48     ? Theseus shipmates with Edward Calamy
C 27     Lieutenant Arethusa  
    6/1/1794     Ushant--"Glorious First of June"
WDS 50   1796   Surprise taken from French
IM 67-68   2/14/1797 Lieutenant   St Vincents
13GS 88   2/14/1797 Lieutenant Colossus St. Vincent's
PC 31   2/14/1797 Lieutenant Orion 3rd lt. at St. Vincents
TH 193     Lieutenant Eurotas 3rd lt at Zambra
DI 145   8/11/1797 Oldster (?) Ardent Camperdown
LM 136   1797 Lieutenant Bellerophon Surveyed St. Martin's with master of Bellerophon
M&C 116     Lieutenant   Lts together with Clonfert
M&C 10     Lieutenant Agamemnon in gunroom
MC 48   1798 Lieutenant Agamemnon "W Indies, before Resolution"
M&C 173   1798 Lieutenant Agamemnon? "in W. Indies, at time of Irish rebellion"
MC 57   1798 Lieutenant Leander shipmates with Eliot
M&C 40   8/1/1798 Lieutenant Leander Nile
PC 357   8/1/1798 Lieutenant Leander Nile
M&C 395   8/1/1798 Lieutenant Leander Nile
PC 75   1799 Lieutenant   Ushant
PC 209   1800 Lieutenant Foudroyant 2nd lt when took Genereux
M&C 49   1800 Lieutenant Genereux brought to Mahon
M&C 10   4/1/1800 Commander Sophie promotion

 

Other References

MC 89   in La Reunion
PC 114 Alert from W Indies
FW 264 Euterpe "long ago"
13GS 88 Isis  
PC 72 Marlborough  
FW 44 Resolution played fiddle then
13GS 88 Resolution