Jack Aubrey's Career prior to the books.

Submitted by Dick Ellis

RefAgeDate RankShip Comment
 01771   Born
M&C 3091780   nominally at sea
M&C 30121783 Capts. Svt. actually at sea
HMSS 367121783 Capts. Svt. afloat since 12
TH 275121783 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   YoungsterAjaxfought Appolon
C 4   YoungsterBellerophon "W. Indies, with H. Dundas"
FW 19313?  YoungsterAndromache paid off--returned from W Indies
DI 267    Andromache"recognizes seaman shipmate, much later"
FW 203   YoungsterGoliathbefore Resolution
M&C 235   YoungsterResolution most junior mid
IM 277   YoungsterQueen  
M&C 235   YoungsterSuccess  
NC 221   YoungsterSylph  
M&C 87   YoungsterTheseus  
IM 48   ?Theseusshipmates with Edward Calamy
DI 17   YoungsterTonnantsaw 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   OldsterBritanniamidshipman in "Old Ironsides"
HMSS 147    Britannia"Old Ironsides"
MC 33   OldsterCirceat Dry Salvages
OSW 336   OldsterNamurescorting Archangel trade
M&C 144   OldsterResolution Cape
MC 56-57   OldsterResolution Cape
HMSS 42   OldsterSurprisemidshipman
IM 137   OldsterSurpriseW Indies
HMSS 251   ?Surprisecut topmast cap out of greenheart on Spanish Main
HMSS 293   Oldsterpacket mid homeward bound from Nova Scotia
OSW 133   Master's MateFormidable  
TH 48   Master's MateFortitude after Resolution
SM 251-5217  Master's MateResolution storming Camaret battery
HMSS 111   Master's MateSurprise master's mate
HMSS 106   Master's MateSurprise on Leeward Islands Station
HMSS 251   ?Surprisecut topmast cap out of greenheart on Spanish Main
FW 19417-18  Master's MateRomulus passage home with Broke
TH 48181789 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 LieutenantQueen 5th lt--1st commissioned berth
M&C 145   LieutenantHannibal 5th lt.
LM 138 1792   burning of St. Martin's at "beginning of war"
NC 178 1793 LieutenantBellerophon took passage
M&C 375   LieutenantLeander when taken [by Genereux]
DI 188   LieutenantTheseusclawing off Penmarks
M&C 11   LieutenantTheseus kept a watch
IM 48   ?Theseusshipmates with Edward Calamy
C 27   LieutenantArethusa  
  6/1/1794   Ushant--"Glorious First of June"
WDS 50 1796  Surprisetaken from French
IM 67-68 2/14/1797 Lieutenant St Vincents
13GS 88 2/14/1797 LieutenantColossus St. Vincent's
PC 31 2/14/1797 LieutenantOrion 3rd lt. at St. Vincents
TH 193   LieutenantEurotas3rd lt at Zambra
DI 145 8/11/1797 Oldster (?)Ardent Camperdown
LM 136 1797 LieutenantBellerophon Surveyed St. Martin's with master of Bellerophon
M&C 116   Lieutenant Lts together with Clonfert
M&C 10   LieutenantAgamemnon in gunroom
MC 48 1798 LieutenantAgamemnon "W Indies, before Resolution"
M&C 173 1798 LieutenantAgamemnon? "in W. Indies, at time of Irish rebellion"
MC 57 1798 LieutenantLeander shipmates with Eliot
M&C 40 8/1/1798 LieutenantLeander Nile
PC 357 8/1/1798 LieutenantLeander Nile
M&C 395 8/1/1798 LieutenantLeander Nile
PC 75 1799 Lieutenant Ushant
PC 209 1800 LieutenantFoudroyant 2nd lt when took Genereux
M&C 49 1800 LieutenantGenereux brought to Mahon
M&C 10 4/1/1800 CommanderSophie promotion

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

Richard S. Ellis: rellis@brynmawr.edu

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