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| Cowper Phipps Coles R.N. | Explanation |
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| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal |
| 1819 | | Born |
| 1856 | | Married Emily Pearson |
| 7 September 1870 | | Died (in HMS Captain, an experimental low freeboard, but fully masted, turret ship which he designed, and which was lost with almost all hands when she capsized in a gale off Cape Finisterre) |
| He designed one of the first practicable gun turrets from ideas first developed in the Crimea |
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| Date | Rank |
| 9 January 1846 | Lieutenant |
| 13 November 1854 | Commander |
| 27 February 1856 | Captain |
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| Date from | Date to | Service |
| 5 December 1849 | | Lieutenant in Phaeton, commanded by George Augustus Elliot, particular service |
| 24 October 1853 | | Lieutenant in Agamemnon, as flag-lieutenant to his uncle, Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons |
| (2 August 1855) | | Commander in Stromboli, Black Sea during the Russian War |
| July 1867 | | Captain in Royal Sovereign, temporarily commissioned for the 1867 Naval review |
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