Examples of Certificates of Service for Commissioned Officers (and those wishing to be commissioned)

 

 

Source: TNA: PRO: ADM 6/100 - Mates and midshipmen passing for lieutenant 1744-1819

 

These volumes are in approximate alphabetical order per year, but care is needed when making searches in these.

 

p.186

'Public Fee, 10s. 6d.

 

IN Purfance of the Directions of the Right Honble, the Lords Commiffioners of the Admiralty, fignified to Us by Mr. Nepean's Letter of the 29 January1802 We have examined Mr. Henry Jones who by Certificate appears to be more than twentty one Years of Age, and find he has gone to Sea more than Seven Years in the Ships, and Qualities under-mentioned, Viz.

 

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Ships

 

Entry

 

Quality

 

Difcharge

Time

Y

M

W

D

Unicorn

30th July 1796

Boy

27 May 1797

2

10

3

1

Endymion

4 June 1797

Boy

30 June 1797

-

-

3

6

Do

1 July 1797

Ordy

15 Jan 1800

2

7

-

3

Belliqueux

16 Jan 1800

Mid

20 Jan 1802

2

-

-

5

7

6

-

1

31 Octr 1801

?Call Book?

 

 

He produceth Journals kept by himfelf in the Belliqueux

and Certificates from Captain Bulteen

 

of his Diligence and Sobriety: He can fplice, knot, reef a Sail, work a Ship in failing, thift his Tides, keep a Reckoning of a Ship's Way by Plane Sailing and Mercator; obferve by Sun or Star, and find the Variation of the Compafs, and is qualified to do the Duty of an able seaman, and Midfhipman. Dated at the Navy-Office the 3rd February 1802

 

A L Hammand                           H Duncan                        F. L. Hartwell

John Wainwright' 

 

 

Source: TNA: PRO: ADM 11/88 - Certificates of Service Mates and Sub-Lieutenants - Candidates for Lieutenant (1847-54)

 

This single volume is alphabetically indexed.

 

p.425

 

C. Le Mesurier

 

Place where born: Guernsey

Age at time of entry: 12

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Ships

 

Entry

 

Quality

 

Discharge

Time

Y

M

W

D

Wanderer

25 Feby 1846

Naval Cadet

3 March 1848

2

-

1

-

Wanderer

4 Mch 1848

Midshipman

20 March 1849

1

-

1

3

Daedalus

13 Aug 1849

Midshipman

13 Mch 1853

3

7

2

3

Daedalus

14 Mch 1853

Acting Mate

13 Sept 1853

-

6

2

2

7

2

-

1

 

'Whitehall 14 Feby 52'

 

 

Source: TNA: PRO: ADM 29/112 - Engineers 1870-73 for pension

 

p.114 (modern stamp 184)

 

Henry Rumble

.

...Y

......D

'Fisgard

H

Asst Engr

2nd Class

30 July 61

5 Aug 61

-

7

...Do

S

....."

6 Aug 61

15 Sepr 63 }

Scylla

S

....."

16 Sep 63

15 Sepr 64 }

3

42

..Do

S

....."

1st Class

16 Sep 64

6 Aug 67

2

325

Cumberland

H

....."

7 Aug 67

13 Aug 67

-

7

......Do

H

....."

14 Aug 67

17 Nov 67 }

Trafalgar

S

....."

18 Nov 67

29 Jan 68 }

-

169

....Do

S

Engineer

30 Jan 68

20 Nov 69

1

296

Asia

H

....."

21 Nov 69

17 Decr 69

-

27

Do

S

....."

18 Decr 69

31 July 70 }

Caledonia

S

....."

1 Aug 70

30 Nov 70 }

1

182

Lynx

S

....."

1 Decr 70

17 June 71 }

Asia

H

....."

18 June 71

27 Sepr 71

date of min

 

-

 

102

. _________

Do

H

....."

28 Sepr 71

11 Oct 71

Pensioned

 

10

 

62

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Sea

3. 42

2. 325

-. 169

Harbour

-. 7

-. 7

. .

Assistant Engineer

6. 171

-. 14

1.    296......

   1. 182 ........

-. 27

-. 102

Engineer

3. 113

-. 129

 

 

???? to Whitehall

5th Octr 1871'

 

N.B. H - Harbour service

S - Sea Service

 

 

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