Victorian Naval Forces Muster | for the Colony of Victoria. (muster range 1853-1910)*
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Profile| Last Name: | Kensington | | First Name: | Ambrose | | Rank: | Captain Fore Top | | Birth Date: | | | Branch: | Victorian Navy | | Ambrose Kensington
Captain of the Fore Top
Send to gaol for 15 days for drunkenness while on duty in New Zealand.
Victoria. A History of Her Majesty's Steam Sloop Victoria, Ian MacFarlane unpublished manuscript.
Crew member of HMCS Victoria 1860-61. See Victoria & Australia's First War, Ian MacFarlane & Neil Smith, Mostly Unsung Military History, Brighton 2005.
From Crew List of HMCS Victoria as at January 1857.
Article in Journal of Police History, vol. 3 no. 1, March - May 1995 by Ian MacFarlane. |
* 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.
Information & photographs of men who served in the Victorian Naval Forces is eagerly sought. Please contact the webmaster.P0WERED by: DaDaBIK
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