Soon after his return to England, Captain Tancock was tried by a court-martial, and sentenced to be admonished, for having threatened to put a marine officer in irons; but notwithstanding this reproof on the part of his judges, the Lords of the Admiralty markced their sense of his conduct by immediately confirming his appointment to the Iphigenia, and continuing him in that command until an officer of sufficiently long standing on the post list to command so large a frigate was appointed to re-commission her.
Captain Tancock married, in Aug. 1805, Elizabeth Catharine, eldest daughter of Samuel Goodwin, Esq. merchant in the island of Guernsey, by whom he has had seven children, four of whom are now living.
HON. GEORGE ALFRED CROFTON.
[Post-Captain of 1812.]
Third son of the late Sir Edward Crofton, Bart, by Anne, daughter and sole heiress of Thomas Croker, of Backweston, co. Kildare, Esq. which lady was created an Irish baroness, in her own right, Dec. 1, 1707.
This officer’s first commission bears date Oct. 10, 1804. On the 13th June, 1805, being then a lieutenant of the Cambrian frigate, Captain J. Poo Beresford, on the Halifax station, he conducted himself with great gallantry in the command of that ship’s barge at the capture of the Spanish privateer schooner Maria, of 14 guns and 60 men; on this occasion the British had 2 men killed and 2 wounded. At the latter end of June, 1806, he was ordered to act as commander of l’Observateur brig, recently captured by the Tartar frigate; but his actual promotion to that rank did not take place till Feb. 9, 1808, at which period he was appointed to the Goree sloop, on the Leeward Islands’ station. The handsome manner in which he consulted the feelings of a brother officer, by relinquishing his right to command that vessel, has been stated at p. 473 of Suppl. Part I. On the 11th Oct. 1810, while commanding the Fawn sloop, he captured le Temeraire French schooner privateer, of 10 guns and 35 men.
