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Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Troubridge, 1st Baronet (22 June 1757 – 1 February 1807) was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer he saw action at the Battle of Sadras in February 1782 during the American Revolutionary War and the Battle of Trincomalee in September 1782 during the Anglo-French War.
- 1773–1807
- Royal Navy
Sir Thomas Troubridge, 1st Baronet. The Troubridge Baronetcy, of Plymouth, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 30 November 1799 for Captain Thomas Troubridge, a distinguished officer of the Royal Navy, who later became an admiral.
Troubridge was ‘a true sailor ... risen merely by dint of his own merits’.1 He was a shipmate, on entering the navy, of Horatio Nelson.2 He served in the East Indies until 1785 and again from 1790.
Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Troubridge, 1st Baronet (22 June 1757 – 1 February 1807) was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer he saw action at the Battle of Sadras in February 1782 during the American Revolutionary War and the Battle of Trincomalee in September 1782 during the Anglo-French War.
But the links date much further into the past, and Sir Tom goes back to the 1st Baronet, Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Troubridge, a Royal Navy officer who knew Lord Nelson from childhood.
- fiona.galeadebono@timesofmalta.com
- Journalist
3 de may. de 2022 · Sir Thomas Troubridge, 1st Baronet (c. 1758 – 1 February 1807) was a British naval commander and politician. Troubridge was educated at St Paul's School, London. He entered the Royal Navy in 1773 and, together with Nelson, served in the East Indies in the frigate Seahorse.
In 1792 he was appointed to the CASTOR and was captured on 10 May 1794 by part of the French Brest Fleet whilst conveying fourteen merchant vessels from the Channel Islands to Newfoundland. Troubridge was presented at the battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797 where the CULLODEN (appointed since February 1795) led the British line.
