Llewellyn Styles Dawson R.N.
Llewellyn Styles Dawson R.N.
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Llewellyn Styles Dawson R.N. | Explanation |
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Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal |
1885 | | Wrote 'Memoirs of Hydrography: including Brief Biographes of the Principal Officers who have Served in H.M. Naval Surveying Service between the years 1750 and 1885' . |
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Date | Rank |
September 1861 | Entered Navy |
12 October 1869 | Lieutenant |
30 June 1882 | Commander |
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Date from | Date to | Service |
February 1872 | | The Royal Geographical Society, still unaware that the American journalist Henry Morton Stanley had already 'found' the reportedly lost explorer David Livingstone, organised a Search and Relief Expedition, led by Dawson. Two months later, the expedition arrived in Zanzibar, where their ship was caught in the hurricane of 15 April. A few weeks later Stanley arrived at Bagamoyo, where he met Dawson and told him that Livingstone was safe and would be arriving after a few more months, whereupon Dawson cancelled the Search and Relief Expedition and returned to London. |
15 September 1873 | | Additional Lieutenant in Pearl, commanded by James Graham Goodenough, Australia, for surveying duties |
1 September 1876 | | Additional Lieutenant in Fisgard, for surveying service |
8 September 1881 | | Additional Lieutenant in Euryalus, for service with the India Marine Survey |
28 October 1885 | 22 February 1889 | Commander in Sylvia (until paying off at Sheerness), Mediterranean |
19 March 1889 | 31 July 1891 | Commander in Rambler (until paying off), surveying, China |
7 July 1891 | | Commander (2ic) in Audacious, commanded by Arthur C.H. Paget, coast guard, Humber |
1 January 1894 | | Coast guard, Berwick |
1895 | | Surveying the principal ports of Western Australia |