Sherard Osborn R.N.
Sherard Osborn R.N.
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Sherard Osborn R.N. | Explanation |
Son of Colonel Edward Osborn of the Madras army |
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Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal |
25 April 1822 | | Born |
January 1852 | | Married Helen, daughter of John Hinksman of Queen Anne Street, London |
4 February 1856 | | C.B. (Companion of the Bath) |
6 May 1875 | | Died (London) |
Obituary in the Times newspaper |
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Date | Rank |
September 1837 | Entered Navy |
4 May 1846 | Lieutenant |
30 October 1852 | Commander |
18 August 1855 | Captain |
29 May 1873 | Rear-Admiral |
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Date from | Date to | Service |
30 September 1837 | 17 December 1839 | Volunteer 1st class in Hyacinth, commanded by Commander William Warren, East Indies (including the first Anglo-Chinese war) |
18 December 1839 | 14 July 1840 | Midshipman in Volage, commanded by Captain Henry Smith, East Indies (including the first Anglo-Chinese war) |
15 July 1840 | 18 May 1842 | Midshipman in Hyacinth, commanded by Commander George Goldsmith, East Indies (including the first Anglo-Chinese war) |
19 May 1842 | 17 March 1843 | Midshipman in Columbine, commanded by Commander William Henry Anderson Morshead, East Indies (including the first Anglo-Chinese war) |
20 March 1843 | 11 December 1843 | Midshipman in Excellent, commanded by Captain Thomas Hastings, gunnery ship, Portsmouth |
12 December 1843 | 15 June 1844 | Mate in Excellent, commanded by Captain Thomas Hastings, gunnery ship, Portsmouth |
16 June 1844 | 3 May 1846 | Midshipman in Collingwood, commanded by Captain Robert Smart, Pacific |
4 May 1846 | 20 July 1848 | Lieutenant in Collingwood, commanded by Robert Smart, flagship of Rear-Admiral George Francis Seymour, Pacific |
7 September 1848 | 14 November 1849 | Lieutenant in Crocodile, commanded by Lieutenant commander Samuel Rosser Protheroe, receiving ship, Cork, for service in Dwarf |
28 February 1850 | 9 October 1851 | Lieutenant and commander in Pioneer, tender to Resolute (Captain Horatio Thomas Austin), searching for Sir John Franklin's ill-fated 1845 expedition |
10 February 1852 | 29 October 1852 | Lieutenant in Assistance, commanded by Captain Edward Belcher, particular service: searching, together with Pioneer (Sherard Osborn, tender to Assistance), Resolute (Henry Kellett) and Intrepid ( McClintock, tender to Resolute) for Sir John Franklins' ill-fated 1845 North-West Passage expedition, until abandoned at Bathurst Island |
30 October 1852 | 31 May 1854 | Commander in Pioneer, tender to Assistance (Sir Edward Belcher) searching, together with Resolute (Henry Kellett) and Intrepid (M'Clintock) for Sir John Franklin's ill-fated 1845 North-West Passage expedition, until abandoned at Bathurst Island |
1 June 1854 | 17 October 1854 | Commander in North Star in Artic seas |
17 February 1855 | 17 August 1855 | Commander in Vesuvius, Black Sea during the Russian War |
7 January 1856 | 19 July 1856 | Captain in Medusa, senior offcier in the Sea of Azov during the Russian War |
11 March 1857 | 13 June 1859 | Captain in Furious, East Indies and China (escorting a fleet of fifteen gunboats out for the attack on Canton during the 2nd Anglo-Chinese War) |
19 May 1861 | 10 June 1862 | Captain in Donegal (until paying off at Plymouth), Channel squadron then (November 1861) transporting troops to Mexico, toegether with Sans Pareil and Conqueror |
13 June 1862 | 13 July 1862 | Captain in Dauntless, Coast Guard, Southampton Water |
September 1862 | January 1864 | Employed by the Imperial Chinese government as flag-officer of a naval squadron to combat pirates and the Taiping rebellion, but resigned when he learned that he was to be placed under the command of the mandarins at the several ports, and not directly under the Emperor |
6 July 1864 | 14 October 1864 | Captain in Royal Sovereign (from commissioning at Portsmouth), Channel squadron |
1865 | 1866 | Agent to the Great Indian Peninsula Railway |
1867 | 1873 | Managing director of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company |
1869 | | Founding Director of the International Mid-Channel Telegraph Co. Ltd. |
9 October 1871 | 10 January 1872 | Captain in Hercules, Channel squadron |