Sir Thomas Troubridge, 1st Baronet
Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Troubridge, 1st Baronet was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer he saw action at the Battle of Sadras in February 1782 during the American Revolutionary War and the Battle of Trincomalee in September 1782 during the Anglo-French War. He commanded the third-rate Culloden at the Battle of Cape St Vincent in February 1797 during the French Revolutionary Wars. He went on to be First Naval Lord and then served as Commander-in-Chief, East Indies, during the Napoleonic Wars.
Troubridge as a rear-admiral, painted 1804–5 by Sir William Beechey
The Battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797 by Robert Cleveley
Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797)
The Battle of Cape St. Vincent was one of the opening battles of the Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808), as part of the French Revolutionary Wars, where a British fleet under Admiral Sir John Jervis defeated a greatly superior Spanish fleet under Admiral Don José de Córdoba y Ramos near Cape St. Vincent, Portugal.
The Battle of Cape St. Vincent, 14 February 1797 by Robert Cleveley
Admiral Sir John Jervis
José de Córdoba
Battle off Cape St. Vincent, 1797 by William Adolphus Knell