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Tryon (SIR GEORGE a British navy)

SIR GEORGE, a British navy in 1848; was at Sebastopol; became captain in 1866, and admiral in 1884. He was commander-in-chief on the Australian station in 1884-1888, and in the Mediterranean from 1891 till the disastrous collision (June 22, 1893) off the coast of Syria, when his flagship, the "Victoria," by his mistaken order, collided, capsized, and sank with her commander and great part of her crew.