Personnel Profile
James Cooke
Marine officer
James Cooke served in a role connected with the Royal Marines during napoleonic era. This career belongs to the broader professional and institutional history of Britain’s maritime world.
He is associated with service representing the military element aboard fighting ships. This formed part of the way maritime service operated through discipline, knowledge, administration, exploration, or specialist expertise.
He is significant because this biography helps widen the personnel record beyond the most familiar names. James Cooke belongs to the broader human history of British naval and maritime service.