Tryon, SIR GEORGE, K.C.B. (1832-93), vice-admiral, entered the navy in 1848, was at Sebastopol, became captain in 1866, and admiral in 1884. He was commander-in-chief on the Australian station in 1884-88, and in the Mediterranean from 1891 till the disastrous collision (29th June 1893) off the coast of Syria, when his flagship, the Victoria, by his mistaken order, collided, capsized, and sank with her commander and great part of her crew. See Life by Penrose Fitzgerald (1897).
Tryon, SIR GEORGE, K.C.B.
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