A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lysaght, Thomas Henry
LYSAGHT. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Thomas Henry Lysaght entered the Navy (from the Royal Naval College) 11 Feb. 1830; passed his examination in 1835; and, participating, while Mate of the Samarang 26, Capt. Jas. Scott, in the operations on the coast of China, was in particular mentioned for his gallantry and zeal at the forcing of the inner passage from Macao to Whampoa; during their advance on which place the boats of that ship, in conjunction with the Nemesis steamer, destroyed, between 3 a.m. on 13 and 4 p.m. on 15 March, 1841, five forts, one battery, two military stations, and nine war-junks, in which collectively were 115 guns and 8 ginjalls.[1] He obtained a commission 8 June following; served, from 23 Aug. in the same year until superseded in 1844, in the Spartan 26, Capt. Hon. Chas. Gilbert John Brydone Elliot, on the North America and West India station; and since 10 Nov, 1846 has been in command of the Grappler steamer, of 220 horse-power, on the coast of Africa.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, p. 1509.