Date of Birth | 6 March 1706 |
Place of Birth | |
Father's Name | Thomas Pocock |
Mother's Name | |
Child | George Pocock |
Child | Daughter |
Date of Death | 3 April 1792 |
Date | Ship | Notes | |
1718 | Superbe | Under his uncle George Byng in the Mediterranean | 001 |
Date | Ship | Notes | |
April 1725 | Promoted | 001 | |
August 1732 | Namur | Appointed first Lieutenant | B051 |
Date | Ship | Notes | |
1733 | Appointed | 001 |
Date | Ship | Notes | |
1 August 1738 | Aldborough | Commissioned for service in the Mediterranean | B051 |
1741 | Aldborough | Returned to England | B051 |
August 1742 | Woolwich | Until 1744 | B051 |
1744 | Sutherland | B051 | |
April 1745 | Sutherland | Sailed from Plymouth for the East Indies accompanied by the Gosport (44) and four East India Company vessels | B051 |
Sutherland | In the West Indies, bcomoing commanding officer on the death of Commodore John Legge | B051 | |
1748 | Sutherland | Ships under his command took nearly 40 French merchants and other vessels | B051 |
1754 | Cumberland | Commissioned for the East Indies under Rear-Admiral Charles Watson | B051 |
November 1755 | Cumberland | The squadron arrived in Bombay | B051 |
1757 | Cumberland | Took part in the reduction of Chandernagore | B051 |
16 August 1757 | Cumberland | Succeeded to command of the squadron on the death of Rear-Admiral Charles Watson | B051 |
Date | Ship | Notes | |
4 February 1755 | Cumberland | Appointed | B051 |
Date | Ship | Notes | |
4 June 1756 | Cumberland | Appointed | B051 |
Date | Ship | Notes | |
31 January 1758 | Cumberland | Promoted | B051 |
1758 | Yarmouth | Moved his flag to the ship | B051 |
17 April 1758 | Yarmouth | The squadron put to sea | B051 |
28 April 1758 | Yarmouth | Arrived off Negapatam | B051 |
29 April 1758 | Yarmouth | Commanding at the Battle of Cuddalore | B051 |
May 1758 | Yarmouth | The squadron put into Madras for repairs | B051 |
10 May 1758 | Yarmouth | The squadron put to sea | B051 |
26 May 1758 | Yarmouth | The squadron anchored at Alemparve | B051 |
30 May 1758 | Yarmouth | The squadron was off Pondicherry | B051 |
June 1758 | Yarmouth | The squadron put into Madras | B051 |
25 July 1758 | Yarmouth | The squadron put to sea | B051 |
26 July 1758 | Yarmouth | Boats from the squadron destroyed seven Chelingoes and took a snow at Alemparve | B051 |
27 July 1758 | Yarmouth | The squadron was off Pondicherry | B051 |
3 August 1758 | Yarmouth | Commanding at the Battle of Negapatam | |
August 1758 | Yarmouth | The squadron put into Madras for repairs | B051 |
17 April 1759 | Yarmouth | The squadron put to sea | B051 |
2 September 1759 | Yarmouth | Sighted the French squadron | B051 |
10 September 1759 | Yarmouth | Commanding at the Battle of Pondicherry | |
22 September 1760 | Yarmouth | Arrived in the Downs and paid off | B051 |
Date | Ship | Notes | |
1761 | Promoted but not commissioned | B051 | |
1762 | Sandwich | Appointed commander of a squadron for the West Indies | B051 |
5 March 1762 | Sailed for the West Indies | B051 | |
22 April 1762 | Arrived at Martinique and took command of the ships already there | B051 | |
27 May 1762 | The fleet sailed | B051 | |
6 June 1762 | The fleet arrived of Havana | B051 | |
14 August 1762 | Havana surrendered together with 9 ships of the line | B051 | |
1762 | Returned to England | B051 | |
1766 | Resigned from the service | B051 |
1761 | Appointed to the Order of the Bath | B051 |
1762 | Elected as Member of Parliament for Portsmouth | B051 |
Date | Source | |
29 April 1758 | Battle of Cuddalore | |
3 August 1758 | Battle of Negapatam | |
10 September 1759 | Battle of Pondicherry |
Thomas Pocock, George's father was Chaplain to Greenwich Hospital and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
001 | Wikipedia | |
B051 | Biographia Navalis | John Charnock |