A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Wright, George Keith Elphinstone
WRIGHT. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
George Keith Elphinstone Wright was upset and drowned with 8 men, while in pursuit of a slaver, in a boat belonging to the Espoir, in an attempt to cross over the bar on the Benguela station, about Oct. 1846.
This officer passed his examination 3 Nov. 1837; served as Mate, on the Mediterranean and Home stations, in the Implacable 74, Capt. Edw. Harvey, Avon steamer, Lieut.-Commander Chas. Jenkin, Aetna 8, Lieut.-Commander Chas. Geo. Butler, and Caledonia 120, and Queen 110, flag-ships of Sir David Milne and Sir John West; attained the rank of Lieutenant 1 Sept. 1845; was nominated, 15 of the same month, Additional of the Penelope steam-frigate, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Wm. Jones on the coast of Africa; and on 21 Jan. 1846 was there appointed to the Espoir 10, Capt. Geo. Sumner Hand.