Re: Naval Officer's career 1772-1783

First place to look is the work "Commissioned Sea Officers of the Royal
Navy" priduced by the National Maritime Museum - TNA have a copy in their
library. Then the published annual Navy List. After that the various
manuscript records at TNA - look at the Research Guide on their website for
details.

Chris Watts


"cecilia" <myths@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:43652505.14374838@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Robert Vardon was baptised 31 Mar 1754 Royal Hospital, Greenwich,
> Kent, England (source IGI British Isles, batch C020002)
>
> He entered the Royal Navy aged 17 in 1772 (source: transcription of
> obituary from St Andrew's Standard, New Brunswick, Canada, 24 Mar
> 1858)
>
> He was a Lieutenant in command of the sloop Albany when she went down
> in 1782 (source: transcription of 1783 court-martial record from
> PRO, ADM 1/5322, ff. 341-351)
>
> Study of the Albany Muster Rolls, Logs and Pay books led a researcher
> to the fact that Robert Vardon, as Lieutenant, reported for duty on
> board the Albany on 22 August 1779.
>
> The obituary said he "served on board various ships,
> chiefly on the Halifax station".
>
> Is there any easier way of identifying on which ships he served
> between early 1772 and August 1779, short of going through the books
> for all ships on that station (I have been given the names of
> Raisonable, Blondi, Greyhound, Galatea, Camilla, Virginia, but I
> expect thare were other lesser vessels), and hoping that "chiefly"
> meant "entirely"?
>
> (I don't understand why he is not included in David Syrett, R.L.
> DiNardo (Eds), "Commissioned sea officers of the Royal Navy,
> 1660-1815", given they used courts-martial records as sources.)


.

Relevant Pages