| 1774-78 Vice-Admiral Clark Gayton |
| 1778-82 Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Parker |
| 1782-83 Rear-Admiral Joshua Rowley |
| 1783-84 Vice-Admiral James Gambier |
| 1784-86 Rear-Admiral Alexander Innes |
| 1786-89 Commodore Alan Gardner |
| 1789-92 Rear-Admiral Philip Affleck |
| 1792-95 Commodore John Ford |
| 1795-96 Rear-Admiral William Parker |
| 1796-00 Vice-Admiral Sir Hyde Parker |
| 1800-01 Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour |
| 1801 Rear-Admiral Robert Montagu |
| 1801-05 Rear-Admiral Sir John Duckworth |
| 1805-08 Vice-Admiral James Richard Dacres |
| 1808-11 Vice-Admiral Bartholemew Rowley |
| 1811-13 Vice-Admiral Charles Stirling |
| 1813-14 Rear-Admiral William Brown |
| 1814 Rear-Admiral Robert Rolles (Appointed but never left England) |
| 1815-18 Rear-Admiral John Erskine Douglas |
| 1817-20 Rear-Admiral Sir Home Popham |
| 1820-23 Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Rowley |
| 1823-24 Commodore Sir Edward Owen |
| 1824-27 Vice-Admiral Sir Lawrence Halsted |
| 1827-30 Vice-Admiral Hon. Charles Elphinstone Fleeming |
| 1830-33 Commodore Arthur Farquhar |
| 1833-37 Commodore Watkin Owen Pell |
| 1842-43 Commodore Hon. George Byng |
