Admiral Sir George Augustus Elliot was a British Royal Navy flag officer and politician.
Salt print of Elliot, late 1840s
HMS Eurydice (1843)
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HMS Eurydice was a 26-gun Royal Navy corvette which was the victim of one of Britain's worst peacetime naval disasters when she sank in a snowstorm off the Isle of Wight on 24 March 1878. Out of a cre
George Elliot (Royal Navy officer, born 1813)
…its previous captain, returning to England in 1841 with his invalided father on board as a passenger. From 1843 to 1846 Elliot commanded the frigate HMS Eurydice, designed by his father, on the North American station, and in December 1849 he was appointed to the frigate HMS Phaeton. She was removed from active…
HMS Eurydice, painted by William Howard Yorke, Liverpool 1871
The Wreck of the Eurydice
Wreck of Eurydice being towed into Portsmouth Harbour, 1 September 1878
HMS Atalanta. The Graphic 1880