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Victorian Naval Forces Muster

for the Colony of Victoria. (muster range 1853-1910)*

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Last Name:Weston
First Name:John
Rank:E R Artificer
Birth Date: 00-01-1860
Branch:Victorian Navy

John Weston

Engine Room Artificer

Date of Entry 3 December 1886. Victorian Navy Certificate of Service, National Archives of Australia.

More details on this person can be found in the Victorian Navy Certificates of Service This is a very large pdf file of 109 mb and takes 13 minutes to download with a 1.5 mbps internet connection.

This person may have a second entry in this Muster Database.

Mentioned in Deeds not Words, Wilson P. Evans, Hawthorn Press, Melbourne 1971.


* 1853 is given as the commencement date for the Victorian Navy as this is the year that Commander Lockyer (RN) went to Britain to superintend the building of HMCS Victoria.
Although the Victorian Navy ended in 1901 the career of Cerbeus etc continued. In 1910 the new ships started arriving & manning levels increased.

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