A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bruce, Thomas Cuppage
BRUCE. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Thomas Cuppage Bruce is son of the Rev. T. Bruce, of Westbere, near Canterbury. This officer was employed throughout all the operations on the coast of Syria, including the capture of St. Jean d’Acre. He passed his examination 2 June, 1841; served for some years as Mate of the Queen 110, and Formidable 84, flag-ships in the Mediterranean of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen; and, on 26 May, 1846, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant as a reward for the conduct he had previously displayed in the Harpy steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander Edw. Halked Beauchamp Proctor, when under a galling fire from the forts of San Lorenzo, in the river Parana, on which occasion, his Captain being disabled, he took charge of the ship.[1] His name has been since borne on the books of the Vernon 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Sam. Hood Inglefield.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1846, p. 3210.