Approximate
coverage to date
Individual
appointments &c. |
|
Flag
Officers |
1660
- 1870 (*) |
Command
(Captains of ships) |
1660
- 1814 |
Lieutenants |
1660
- 1688, 1695 - 1763 |
Warrant
Officers |
1695
- 1763 |
Yard
Officers
|
1695
- 1763, [1660-c.1820(*)]
|
Place
'Milestones' |
|
|
1660
- 1845 |
(*)
denotes non-continuous)
Where
possible or practical the guiding principle is to collect data by
source, taking all the information from one before moving on to the
next. This has significant advantages but there are anomalies -
for example, some Sea' officers subsequently became Yard'
officers and some sources have a mixture of ranks/rates and types of
officers. Equally, strays' are entered as found. In
general terms, progress is being controlled by careful selection of
the sources. The completeness or otherwise of an individual's
career is totally dependant on the sources entered to date.
For
Commission Officers, seniority as a Lieutenant of not later than 31
December 1815 is in use as the current cut-off point.