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Browse officers in command: A - B; C - E; F - G; H - K; L - O; P - R; S - T; U - Z; ??
| Hugh Talbot Burgoyne R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Only son of Field Marshal Sir John Fox Burgoyne (1782-1871) | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| 19 July 1833 | Born (Dublin) | ||
| 29 May 1855 | In the Sea of Azov, when serving in Swallow during the Russian War, he volunteered to land (with lieutenant Cecil William Buckley of Miranda and gunner John Robarts of Ardent) at a beach where the Russian army were in strength. They were out of covering gunshot range of the ships offshore and met considerable enemy opposition, but managed to set fire to corn stores and ammunition dumps and destroy enemy equipment. For this he was later awarded the Victoria Cross. | ||
| 25 August 1864 | Married Evelyn Laura (1844-1890), daughter of Admiral Sir Baldwin Wake Walker | ||
| 7 September 1870 | Died (when in command of Cowper Phipps Coles' revolutionary masted turret ship, Captain, which capsized off Cape Finisterre during a gale) | ||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 1847 | Entered Navy | ||
| 18 January 1853 | Mate | ||
| 11 January 1854 | Lieutenant | ||
| 10 May 1856 | Commander | ||
| 15 May 1861 | Captain | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| 11 January 1854 | 16 March 1854 | Lieutenant in Britomart, commanded by Commander Albert Heseltine, west coast of Africa (senior officer of the Sierre Leone division) | |
| 20 March 1854 | 4 August 1854 | Lieutenant in Boscawen, commanded by Captain William Fanshawe Glanville, the Baltic during the Russian War | |
| 5 August 1854 | 17 August 1854 | Lieutenant in Waterloo, commanded by Captain Lord Frederick Herbert Kerr, flagship of Vice-Admiral William Gordon, Sheerness | |
| 18 August 1854 | 17 September 1854 | Lieutenant in Curlew, commanded by Commander Rowley Lambert, Mediterranean | |
| 16 September 1854 | 1 July 1855 | Lieutenant in Swallow, commanded by Commander Frederick Augustus Buchanan Craufurd, Mediterranean (and Black Sea during the Russian War) | |
| 2 July 1855 | 8 July 1856 | Lieutenant and commander in Wrangler, Black Sea during the Russian War | |
| 16 July 1857 | 15 May 1861 | Commander (2ic) in Ganges, commanded by Captain John Fulford, flagship of Rear-Admiral Robert Lambert Baynes, Pacific | |
| March 1863 | Second in command (in the screw sloop Pekin, ex-Mohawk) of Sherard Osborn's Chinese squodron | ||
| 4 July 1865 | 27 September 1865 | Additional captain in Victory, commanded by Captain Francis Scott, flag-ship, Commander-in-chief Portsmouth, for service in Wivern | |
| 28 September 1865 | 28 October 1867 | Captain in Wivern (from commissioning at Portsmouth), Channel squadron | |
| 29 October 1867 | 24 December 1868 | Captain in Constance (until paying off at Plymouth), North America and West Indies | |
| 1 January 1869 | 4 August 1869 | Additional captain in Indus, commanded by Captain William Garnham Luard, flagship of Rear-Admiral James Robert Drummond, Flag ship of the Admiral Superintendent, Devonport, for service in Captain | |
| 29 January 1870 | 29 April 1870 | Additional captain in Duke of Wellington, commanded by Captain George Hancock, flagship of Admiral James Hope, Portsmouth, for service in Captain | |
| 30 April 1870 | 7 September 1870 | Captain in Captain, until the ship capsized in a gale whilst cruising off of Cape Finisterre, with the loss of about 480 lives | |
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