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Browse officers in command: A - B; C - E; F - G; H - K; L - O; P - R; S - T; U - Z; ??
| Francis Richard Blackburne R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Son of Rev. Thomas Blackburne (1790-1847) | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| 1835 | Born (Eccles, Lancashire, England) | ||
| 5 October 1902 | Died (Bampton, Oxfordshire, England) | ||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 25 May 1857 | Lieutenant | ||
| 25 October 1867 | Commander | ||
| 25 August 1877 | Captain | ||
| 21 February 1890 | Retired Captain | ||
| 20 February 1892 | Retired Rear-Admiral | ||
| 29 November 1895 | Retired Vice-Admiral | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| 24 March 1856 | 21 August 1856 | Mate in Hannibal, commanded by Captain John Charles Dalrymple Hay, Black Sea during the Russian War, then Mediterranean | |
| 22 August 1856 | 14 March 1857 | Act. Lieutenant commander in Cracker, tender to Royal Albert | |
| 22 November 1857 | 21 January 1862 | Lieutenant in Racoon, commanded by James Aylmer Dorset Paynter then Captain William Charles Chamberlain, Channel squadron then Mediterranean | |
| 25 February 1862 | 25 October 1865 | Lieutenant in Styx, commanded by Commander Hon. William John Ward, North America and West Indies | |
| 24 January 1866 | 1 March 1868 | Lieutenant in Topaze, commanded by William Montagu Dowell then Commodore Richard Ashmore Powell, Pacific | |
| 17 August 1870 | 8 June 1872 | Commander (2ic) in Trafalgar, commanded by Captain Thomas Bridgeman Lethbridge, seagoing naval cadet training ship | |
| 26 September 1872 | 17 April 1875 | Commander (2ic) in Swiftsure, commanded by Captain Hon. William John Ward then Captain John Kennedy Erskine Baird, home waters, then the Mediterranean | |
| 1 June 1875 | 27 September 1877 | Commander (2ic) in Duke of Wellington, commanded by Captain Francis William Sullivan then Walter Cecil Talbot, flagship of the port admiral, Portsmouth | |
| 2 July 1879 | Senior torpedo class on Vernon | ||
| 12 September 1882 | 11 September 1886 | Captain in Heroine , Pacific | |
| 1 November 1886 | 28 February 1889 | Captain in Shannon, Ship of First Reserve, Coastguard, Greenock (with summer cruises in July-August of 1887 and 1888) | |
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