James Tillard
d. 1814
Naval officer. Commander of the warship HMS Sabrina, 1810; captain, 1811. Witnessed the eruption in June 1812 that produced a new island off the Azores; he named it Sabrina Island, and claimed it for Great Britain, but it soon disappeared into the ocean.
Sources
Brenton 1837, 2: 438
Syrett and DiNardo eds. 1994
The Times, 15 January 1814, p. 2
Bibliography
Brenton, Edward Pelham. 1837. The naval history of Great Britain. 2 vols. New edition. London: Henry Colburn.
Syrett, David and DiNardo, R. L., eds. 1994. The commissioned sea officers of the Royal Navy 1660–1815. Revised edition. Aldershot, Hants.: Scholar Press.
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