Arthur Cecil Curtis R.N. | Explanation | ||
Second son of George Lear Curtis (1805-1853) | |||
Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
27 February 1836 | Born (Southgate, Middlesex, England) | ||
18 October 1886 | Married Arabella Augusta (b1862), second daughter of Ward Chipman Drury (1824-1891), of St. John, New Brunswich, Canada, at Bermuda | ||
10 July 1895 | Died on the steam launch of Repulse (living at Southsea, Hampshire, England) | ||
Date | Rank | ||
27 February 1848 | Entered Navy | ||
12 July 1855 | Mate | ||
25 May 1857 | Lieutenant | ||
28 November 1866 | Commander | ||
16 February 1877 | Captain | ||
29 September 1890 | Retired Captain | ||
17 January 1892 | Retired Rear-Admiral | ||
Date from | Date to | Service | |
12 July 1855 | 24 May 1857 | Mate in Centaur, commanded by Captain William John Cavendish Clifford, Mediterranean, then the Baltic during the Russian War | |
29 December 1857 | 20 July 1858 | Lieutenant in Vulcan, commanded by Commander John Seccombe, Portsmouth | |
21 July 1858 | 6 October 1859 | Lieutenant in Perseverance, commanded by Commander Edward Roche Power, particular service | |
7 October 1859 | 13 January 1863 | Lieutenant in Beagle, commanded by Commander Edward Hay, East Indies and China | |
14 January 1863 | 5 July 1863 | Lieutenant in Sphinx, commanded by Commander Theodore Morton Jones, for passage | |
7 December 1863 | 14 July 1865 | Lieutenant in Black Prince, commanded by Captain James Francis Ballard Wainwright then Captain Lord Frederick Herbert Kerr, Channel squadron (second in command) | |
15 July 1865 | 1 January 1866 | Lieutenant in Scorpion, commanded by Captain John Edmund Commerell, Portsmouth | |
19 April 1866 | 13 May 1866 | Lieutenant in Donegal, commanded by Captain James Aylmer Dorset Paynter, Coast Guard, Liverpool | |
14 May 1866 | 17 November 1866 | Lieutenant in Terrible, commanded by Captain John Edmund Commerell, helping to lay the (third, and finally successful) Atlantic cable | |
15 April 1869 | 24 May 1869 | Commander (2ic) in Agincourt, commanded by Captain Hon. Henry Carr Glyn, Channel squadron | |
25 May 1869 | 29 November 1871 | Commander (2ic) in Monarch, commanded by Captain John Edmund Commerell, Channel squadron | |
22 February 1872 | 31 May 1875 | Commander (2ic) in Duke of Wellington, commanded by Captain Hon. Henry Carr Glyn, flagship of the port admiral, Portsmouth | |
13 January 1876 | 26 March 1876 | Commander in Trincomalee, Royal Naval Reserve drill ship, West Hartlepool | |
27 March 1876 | 6 March 1877 | Commander in Castor, Royal Naval Reserve drill ship, North Shields | |
21 August 1882 | 24 July 1883 | Captain in Thetis (until paying off), Pacific | |
18 August 1884 | 4 November 1886 | Captain in Canada. North America and West Indies | |
12 July 1887 | 31 March 1889 | Captain in Duncan, flag ship, Sheerness | |
1 April 1889 | 15 July 1890 | Captain in Wildfire (purchased 1889 as Hiawatha, yacht), base ship, Sheerness |