sentences:  In March 1856 he became Captain of , flagship of Vice Admiral George Francis Seymour, Portsmouth, and in December of that year he was transferred to the 5th-rate 44-gun sailing frigate , for coast guard service.In May 1857 Drummond was appointed Private Secretary to Sir Charles Wood, the First Lord of the Admiralty and was then himself appointed Fourth Naval Lord from March 1858.In December 1858 he was appointed as Commodore in , as Commander-in-Chief, Woolwich.