A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Falcon, Gordon Thomas
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FALCON. (Rear-Admiral, of the Blue, 1848.)
Gordon Thomas Falcon was at the blockade of the Dutch coast in the Sheerness; and in the Andromeda at the taking of the Danish and Swedish islands in the West Indies in 1801. He was First-Lieutenant of the Barfleur when Lord Wellington occupied the lines of Torres Vedras. His promotion to Flag-rank took place 1 Aug. 1848; on which occasion he was superseded in the Superintendentship of Pembroke Dockyard.