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Stafford Fairborne

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Officer of the British Navy

Sir Stafford Fairborne

Personal Details

Date of Birth	1656
Place of Birth
Father's Name
Mother's Name
Date of Death	11th November 1742

Naval Service Details

Lieutenant

Date	Ship	Notes
1685	Bonaventure	Commanded the ship in operations against the North African corsairs because Captain Henry Priestman was ill and ashore

Captain

Date	Ship	Notes
30 August 1688	Richmond	Appointed captin of this hired 28-gun ship (B051)
	Fairfax	(B051)
1688	Warspite	Commanded at the Battle of Beachy Head (B051)
September 1690		Present at the seige of Cork and took part in the assault (B051)
1693	Monck	As part of the Smyrna convoy escort (W014)
1695	Defiance	(B051)
July 1696	Albemarle	(B051)
	Victory	(B051)
1700	Victory	Commodore of the Newfoundland Fishing Convoys (002)
1700	Tilbury	For service in the Mediterranean (B051)

Rear-Admiral of the Blue

Date	Ship	Notes
30th June 1701		Appointed
April 1702		Sent to Ireland with a small squadron to return English troops (B051)

Rear-Admiral of the White

Date	Ship	Notes
8 May 1702		Appointed (B051)
22 June 1702	Saint George	Detached from the main fleet to cruise of Cape Finisterre (B051)
8 August 1702	Saint George	Joined by Sir George Rooke with the Main Fleet (B051)
12 August 1702	Saint George	The fleet anchored in the Bay of Bulls, off Cadiz (B051)
17 November 1702	Saint George	Arrived in Spithead (B051)

Vice-Admiral of the Red

Date	Ship	Notes
6 May 1703		Appointed
1703	Association	In the Mediterranean as second in command to Sir Cloudesley Shovell (B051)
1 July 1703	Association	Left St Helen's (B051)
24 July 1703	Association	The fleet arrived of Cascais (B051)
July 1703	Association	Sent to Lisbon to inform the Portugese King of th arrival of the combined fleet (B051)
Novmber 1703	Association	Returned to England (B051)
26 November 1703	Association	Forced from her anchorage in the Downs by the Great Storm (B051)
May 1704	Shrewsbury	Second in command to Sir Cloudesley Shovell with the intent to attack the French in Brest (B051)
1705		In the Mediterranean as second in command to Sir Cloudesley Shovell (B051)
November 1705		Returned to England and struck his flag (B051)
April 1706		Appointed Commander of a division of Seven ships of the line and other vessels (B051)
6 May 1706		The Squadron left Plymouth for Rochfort and burnt some vessels there (B051)
17 May 1706		Returned to Plymouth (B051)
30 May 1706		Order to Ostend to support a seige with seven ships of the line, four frigates, a fireship, two bomb ketches and four samller vessels (B051)
25 June 1706		Seige of Ostend was completed

Admiral of the White

Date	Ship	Notes
December 1708		(B051)

Admiral of the Fleet

Date	Ship	Notes
21 December 1708		Appointed, but appears to have held the post for only one day, if at all, as Sir John Leake was appointed on the 22 December 1708 (B051)

Other Details

8 May 1705	Elected as Member of Parliament for Rochester, until 1710 (001)
8 February 1706	Appointed Naval Commissioner on the Council of the Lord High Admiral (until 20 June 1708)
November 1701	Knighted by King William III on board his own ship
1 January 1714	Awarded a pension of £600 per annum (B051)

Actions & Battles

Date		Source
27 June 1693	Battle of Lagos	W014
10 July 1690	Battle of Beachy Head	B051

Notes

Sources

001	List of English MP's
002	List of Officials of Canadian Provinces
W014	Anglo Dutch Wars Blog	Jim Bender
B051	Biographia Navalis Vol II Page	John Charnock

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