See also:SIR See also:GEORGE See also:TRYON (1832-1893)
, See also:British See also:admiral, a younger son of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Tryon, of Bulwick See also:Park, See also:Northamptonshire, was See also:born on the 4th of See also:January 1832
.
He entered the See also:navy in 1848, on See also:board See also:Lord See also:Dundonald's See also:flagship on the See also:North See also:American station; was subsequently in the " Vengeance" with Lord See also:Edward See also:- RUSSELL (FAMILY)
- RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )
- RUSSELL, JOHN (1745-1806)
- RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)
- RUSSELL, JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL (1792-1878)
- RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT (1808–1882)
- RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM (1639–1683)
- RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD
- RUSSELL, THOMAS (1762-1788)
- RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844– )
Russell in the See also:Black See also:Sea; was landed for service with the See also:naval See also:brigade; and was made a See also:lieutenant in See also:November, but dated back to the 21st of See also:October 1854
.
From 1855 to 1858 he was in the " Royal See also:Albert " flagship of See also:Sir See also:Edmund See also:Lyons; and from 1858 to 186o in the royal yacht, which gave him his promotion to See also:commander on the 25th of October 186o
.
From 1861 to 1864 he was commander of the " See also:Warrior," the first British sea-going ironclad; from 1864 to 1866 he commanded the " Surprise" See also:gun-See also:vessel in the Mediterranean; and was promoted to be See also:captain on the 11th of See also:April 1866
.
In 1867 he was sent out as director of transports and See also:store See also:ships for the Abyssinian expedition, a See also:post which involved a See also:great See also:deal of hard See also:work in a sweltering and unhealthy See also:climate
.
He discharged his duties exceedingly well, but his See also:health See also:broke down, and he returned to See also:England a helpless invalid
.
From 1871 to 1873 he was private secretary to Mr See also:Goschen, then first lord of the See also:admiralty; and from 1874 to 1877 commanded the " See also:Raleigh " in See also:India with the See also:Prince of See also:Wales, and later in the Mediterranean
.
In the years 1878-1881 he had command of the " Monarch," one of the Mediterranean See also:fleet under Sir See also:Geoffrey See also:Hornby and Sir See also:Beauchamp See also:Seymour, afterwards Lord See also:Alcester
.
He was subsequently for two years secretary of the admiralty; and for three years more, on his promotion in April 1884 to the See also:rank of See also:rear-admiral, commanderin-See also:chief on the Australian station
.
On his return in See also:June 1887
he was made R.C.B.; afterwards he was for three years See also:superintendent of reserves, in which capacity it See also:fell to him to command one of the opposing fleets during the summer manoeuvres, when he showed marked ability and originality of ideas
.
In 1889 he was promoted to be See also:vice-admiral; and in See also:August 1891 was appointed to command the Mediterranean fleet, which under him—following the example of his old chief, Sir Geoffrey Hornby—became very distinctly an evolutionary and, in that sense, experimental See also:squadron
.
Some of his methods were afterwards said to be dangerous; but those which were most severely criticized do not appear to have had anything to do with the lamentable See also:accident which ended Tryon's career
.
On the 22nd of June 1893, the fleet being then off See also:Tripoli on•the See also:coast of See also:Syria, in two columns, Tryon made the See also:signal to invert the course, the ships turning inwards in See also:succession
.
By a fatal See also:error, the psychological cause of which has never been explained, he ignored the patent fact that the two columns were so near each other that the manoeuvre, as ordered, must See also:entail the most serious See also:risk, if not certainty, of collision
.
And, in fact, the two leading ships did come into collision, with the result that the " See also:Victoria," Tryon's flagship, was cut open and sank in a few minutes
.
Tryon and 358 See also:officers and men were drowned
.
See the See also:Life, by Rear-Admiral C
.
C
.
Penrose-See also:FitzGerald
.
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