Horatio Thomas Austin
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Sir Horatio Thomas Austin was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer.
Austin in 1860
HMS Cyclops (1839)
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HMS Cyclops was a paddle wheel steam frigate built for the Royal Navy and launched in 1839 and taken out of service in 1861 and sold for breaking in January 1864. She saw action in the Syrian War in 1
Horatio Thomas Austin
…Plate, Isla de los Estados and South Georgia, before returning to Falmouth in 1830. During the early 1840s he commanded the steam paddle wheel frigate Cyclops. Following the 1849 failure of Sir James Clark Ross's attempt to locate Franklin's lost expedition, Austin led an expedition in 1850 that also attempted…
HMS Cyclops off Spithead in 1840 – etching from a painting by William Adolphus Knell
The steam-ships Pottinger and Cyclops stranded in Thorness Bay, Cowes, on the Isle of Wight on 1 November 1846
Etching of HMS 'Cyclops in 1851
Cyclops at Sebastopol, during the first day's attack by the allied fleet and armies of France and England on 17 October 1854