| 1773-77 Commodore Sir Edward Hughes |
| 1776-80 Commodore Sir Edward Vernon |
| 1779-84 Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes |
| 1783-85 Commodore Andrew Mitchell
1785-86 Commodore Charles Hughes |
| 1786-88 No Naval presence |
| 1788-93 Commodore Hon. William Cornwallis |
| 1793-94 No Naval presence |
| 1794-04 Rear-Admiral Peter Rainier |
| 1804-09 Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Pellew # |
| 1805-06 Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Troubridge # |
| 1808-11 Vice-Admiral William O’Brien Drury |
| 1811 Commodore William Broughton * |
| 1811-12 Rear-Admiral Hon. Robert Stopford |
| 1812-14 Vice-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood |
| 1814 Captain George Sayer * |
| 1814-15 Rear-Admiral Sir George Burlton |
| 1815-16 Captain George Sayer * |
| 1816-19 Rear-Admiral Sir Richard King |
| 1819-22 Rear-Admiral Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood |
| 1822-25 Commodore Charles Grant |
| 1825-26 Commodore Sir James Brisbane |
| 1825-28 Rear-Admiral William Gage |
| 1828-31 Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Owen |
| Renamed East Indies and China Station |
| 1831-34 Vice-Admiral Sir John Gore |
| 1834-37 Rear-Admiral Hon. Sir Thomas Bladen Capel |
| 1837-39 Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick Maitland |
| 1839-40 Captain Sir James Bremer * |
| 1840 Rear-Admiral Hon. George Elliot |
| 1841 Commodore Sir James Bremer * |
| 1841-44 Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker |
| 1844-46 Rear-Admiral Sir John Thomas Cochrane |
| 1846-47 Rear-Admiral Samuel Hood Inglefield |
| 1848-49 Rear-Admiral Francis Augustus Collier |
| 1850-52 Rear-Admiral Charles Austen |
| 1852-54 Rear-Admiral Hon. Sir Fleetwood Pellew |
| 1854-56 Rear-Admiral Sir James Stirling |
| 1856-59 Rear-Admiral Michael Seymour |
| 1856-62 Rear-Admiral James Hope |
| # Split command |
| * Temporary commander-in-chief |