Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier R.N.
Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier R.N.
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Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier R.N. | Explanation |
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Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal |
September 1796 | | Born (Banbridge, Co. Down, Ireland) |
(1850) | | Died (on Franklin's fatal last expedition to find a North-West passage); exact date unknown |
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Date | Rank |
2 March 1826 | Lieutenant |
10 January 1837 | Commander |
16 August 1841 | Captain |
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Date from | Date to | Service |
1818 | 1821 | Mate in Doterel, commanded by John Gore, Cape of Good Hope |
8 May 1821 | 1823 | Mate in Fury, commanded by Edward Perry, discovery ship searching for a North-West passage |
8 May 1824 | 1825 | Mate in Hecla, commanded by Edward Perry, discovery ship, searching for a North-West passage |
25 March 1827 | October 1827 | Lieutenant in Hecla, commanded by Edward Perry, discovery ship, British Naval North Polar Expedition, remaining at Spitsbergen while Perry and James Clark Ross attempted to reach the North Pole |
26 April 1831 | | Lieutenant in Stag, commanded by Edward Thomas Troubridge, off the coasts of Spain and Portugal |
12 October 1832 | | Lieutenant in Stag, commanded by Nicholas Lockyer, off the coast of Portugal |
23 December 1835 | | Lieutenant in Cove, commanded by James Clark Ross, on the British Relief Expedition sent from Hull to rescue the crews of eleven whaling vessels which had been beset and forced to winter in Davis Strait (between Baffin island and Greenland) |
11 May 1839 | | Commander in Terror, particular service (the British Naval Expedition, 1839-1843 (leader James Clark Ross), organized to conduct a series of magnetic observations in the southern hemisphere and to locate and reach the South Magnetic Pole if possible) |
8 March 1845 | | Captain in Terror, particular service (the ill-fated British Naval Northwest Passage Expedition, 1845-1848, led by Sir John Franklin), sent by the Admiralty to search for a Northwest Passage beyond Lancaster Sound and Barrow Strait in the unexplored region south-west of Barrow Strait. |