The Pacific Squadron was a

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of the

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. It was formed in 1813 during the

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. It was subordinate to the South America Station until 1837, when the British naval presence was reorganised into the

Pacific Station The Pacific Station was created in 1837 as one of the geographical military formations into which the Royal Navy divided its worldwide responsibilities. The South America Station was split into the Pacific Station and the South East Coast of ...

and the

South East Coast of America Station The South East Coast of America Station was a formation of the Royal Navy which existed from 1838 until just after the end of the 19th century. History The station was separated from the Pacific Station in 1838 in order to combat the slave trade i ...

Commodores of the Pacific Squadron

The following were commodores of the Pacific Squadron: * Captain

James Hillyar Admiral Sir James Hillyar KCB KCH (29 October 1769 – 10 July 1843) was a prominent British Royal Navy officer of the early nineteenth century, who is best known for his service in the frigate HMS ''Phoebe'' during the Napoleonic Wars and the W ...

1813–14 * Captain Thomas Staines 1814–15 * Captain John Fyffe 1815–16 * Captain William Bowles 1817–18 * Captain

William Henry Shirreff William Henry Shirreff (baptised 4 April 1785 – 1 December 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer, captain of , , , and . He had six children four of whom were daughters. He had two notable daughters, Maria Georgina Grey and Emily Anne Eliza S ...

1818–21 * Commodore Thomas Masterman Hardy 1821–22 * Captain Lord Spencer February 1822 * Captain

Henry Prescott Admiral Sir Henry Prescott (4 May 1783 – 18 November 1874) was an officer of the British Royal Navy who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and was later the Governor of the Newfoundland Colony. Biography Family b ...

July 1822 * Captain Thomas Brown October 1823 * Captain

Thomas James Maling Thomas James Maling (15 July 1778 – 22 January 1849) was a Royal Navy officer, a captain during Napoleonic Wars and later promoted to Rear-Admiral. Biography He was the son of Christopher Thompson Maling, DL, of Worcestershire, and scion of t ...

May 1824 * Captain

Sir John Sinclair Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, 1st Baronet, (10 May 1754 – 21 December 1835), was a British politician, a writer on both finance and agriculture, and was one of the first people to use the word '' statistics'' in the English language, in ...

March 1827 * Captain Jeremiah Coghlan August 1828 * Captain Arthur Bingham November 1829 * Captain William Waldegrave July 1830 * Captain

Lord James Townshend Captain (naval), Captain Lord James Nugent Boyle Bernardo Townshend Royal Guelphic Order, KCH (11 September 1785 – 28 June 1842), was a British naval commander and Tory (political faction), Tory politician. Townshend was the younger son of Ge ...

March 1832 * Captain Francis Mason August 1834 * Captain Thomas Ball Sulivan July 1837

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Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contine ...

1813 establishments in the British Empire