Thomas Staines

Thomas Staines

Sir Thomas Staines, (1776 – 13 July 1830), Captain in the Royal Navy, Knight Commander of the Bath, and of the Sicilian Order of St. Ferdinand and Merit, and Knight of the Ottoman Order of the Crescent. On 17 September 1814 HMS "Briton" under his command, along with HMS "Tagus" were the first British ships to visit Pitcairn Island after the Bounty and discover the fate of the mutineers – this was six and half years after the American ship "Topaz" rediscovered Pitcairn but that discovery was unknown to Staines. [Staff. "The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ...", Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1831, Volume 15 "Chapter X Sir Thomas Staines" [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ENoKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA367#PPA348,M1 pp. 348-374] ] [Staff. "The Gentleman's Magazine" s.n., 1830. Volume 148 (July - Dec. 1830) "Obituary Captain Sir T. Staines". [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kPcRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA280#PPA277,M1 p. 277-280] ] ["The European Magazine, and London Review", Philological Society of London, 1816, Volume 69 (Jan. - June 1816) "Mutineers of the Bounty". [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mOwRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA62#PPA134,M1 p. 134,135] ]

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