A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ross, Thomas Courtis
ROSS. (Lieutenant, 1839.)
Thomas Courtis Ross entered the Navy 6 May, 1824; passed his examination in 1830; obtained his commission 26 March, 1839; was nominated, 7 May following, Additional-Lieutenant of the Melville 72, flag-ship of Hon. Geo. Elliot at the Cape of Good Hope; and assumed command, 8 Dec. in the same year, of the Curlew 10, on the coast of South America; whence, after performing for a short time the duties of First-Lieutenant in the Fantome 16, Capt. Philip Geo. Haymes, he returned, in 1842, to England. He has been employed in the Coast Guard since 1 Aug. 1846.