Algernon Lyons
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Sir Algernon Lyons
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| Born |
30 August 1833 Satara, India |
| Died | 9 February 1908 (aged 74) Kilvrough Manor, Glamorgan |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
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| Service/branch |
 Royal Navy
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| Years of service | 1847–1903 |
| Rank | Admiral of the Fleet |
| Commands held |
HMS Firebrand HMS Racer HMS Charybdis HMS Immortalité HMS Monarch Pacific Station North America and West Indies Station Plymouth Command |
| Battles/wars | Crimean War |
| Awards | Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath |
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.
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. 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.
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