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Admiral of the Fleet Sir Algernon McLennan Lyons GCB (30 August 1833 – 9 February 1908) was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer he took part in the blockade of the Danube Delta which was being held by the Russians at the start of the Crimean War. After the ship's captain was killed, he took command of his ship's boats, destroyed five enemy signal stations and put the Russians to flight. He then took command of the ship herself and saw action at the bombardment of Sevastopol. After the flagship of the fleet, ''HMS Albion'', was damaged by enemy fire, Lyons attached the burning flagship to his own ship and towed the flagship to safety. He also took part in operations at Kerch and fought at the Battle of Kinburn. Lyons went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station, Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Station and then Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth. ==Early career== Born the second son of Lieutenant General Humphrey Lyons and Eliza Lyons (née Bennett), Lyons was privately educated in Twickenham and then joined the Royal Navy in 1847.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sir Algernon Lyons )〕 He was first appointed to the fifth-rate HMS ''Cambrian'' on the East Indies and China Station and then transferred to the second-rate HMS ''Albion'', flagship of his uncle, Sir Edmund Lyons, who was Second-in-Command of the Mediterranean Fleet, in 1853.〔Heathcote, p. 159〕 Promoted to mate in October 1853, Lyons transferred to the paddle frigate HMS ''Firebrand'' and took part in the blockade of the Danube Delta which was being held by the Russians at the start of the Crimean War.〔 He was promoted to lieutenant on 26 June 1854.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Algernon Lyons )〕 After Captain Hyde Parker, commanding HMS ''Firebrand'', was killed in July 1854, Lyons took command of the ship's boats, destroyed five enemy signal stations and put the Russians to flight.〔 Lyons then took command of HMS ''Firebrand'' herself and saw action at the bombardment of Sevastopol in October 1854.〔 After the flagship, ''HMS Albion'', was damaged by enemy fire later than month, Lyons attached the burning flagship to HMS ''Firebrand'' and towed the flagship to safety.〔 Lyons went on to be flag lieutenant to his uncle, now Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet in the first-rate HMS ''Royal Albert'', in December 1854.〔 Lyons took part in operations at Kerch in October 1854 and fought at the Battle of Kinburn in October 1855.〔Heathcote, p. 160〕 Promoted to commander on 9 August 1858, he became commanding officer of the sloop HMS ''Racer'' on the North America and West Indies Station in May 1860.〔 In HMS ''Racer'' he had the difficult task of protecting British merchant vessels seeking to evade the blockade being imposed by the United States Navy on Confederate ports.〔 Promoted to captain on 1 December 1862, Lyons became commanding officer of the corvette HMS ''Charybdis'' on the Pacific Station in January 1867 and commanding officer of the frigate HMS Immortalité in a detached squadron in October 1872.〔 He went on to be senior naval officer in Jamaica in 1875 and commanding officer of the armoured turret ship HMS ''Monarch'' in the Mediterranean Fleet in April 1878.〔 He was deployed to Constantinople during his tour in HMS ''Monarch''.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Algernon Lyons」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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