A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Thomas, George (a)
THOMAS. (Retired Commander, 1844. f-p., 22; h-p., 32.)
George Thomas entered the Navy, 28 April, 1793, as A.B., on board the Diadem 64, Capt. Andrew Sutherland; with whom, after assisting at the occupation of Toulon, and at the reduction of the towns of St. Fiorenza, Bastia, and Calvi, he removed as Midshipman, in the summer of 1794, to the Berwick 74; in which ship, commanded at the time by Capt. Adam Littlejohn, he was captured by the French Mediterranean fleet, at the end of a long running-fight, 7 March, 1795. On his restoration to freedom he again, on the following Sept., joined the Diadem; and in her he continued employed in the Mediterranean as Master’s Mate, under Capts. Chas. Tyler and Geo. Henry Towry, until the spring of 1798. During the next three years and a half he served as Master’s Mate and as Acting-Lieutenant and Lieutenant (order and commission dated 9 Feb. and 26 Sept. 1799) in the Europa 50, Capt. Jas. Stevenson in the Channel, on the coast of Ireland, in the North Sea, and, a second time, in the Mediterranean; where he was wounded, in March, 1801, at the landing of the French in Egypt.[1] He was afterwards employed, from Sept. 1801 until March, 1802, in the Egyptienne 40, Capts. Jas. Stevenson and Chas. Ogle, on the station last named – from March to June, 1803, in the Impress service at Bristol – from the latter date until Oct. 1804, in the Ruby 64, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Edw. Thornbrough in the North Sea – from 1 July, 1805, until 20 Nov. 1813, in command of a Signal station – and from 21 Nov. 1813 until July, 1816, as an Agent for Transports in the Mediterranean. He was placed on the Junior List of Retired Commanders 26 Nov. 1830; and on the Senior 3 May, 1844.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1801, p. 498.