Admiral Thomas Bridgeman Lethbridge (28 October 1829 – 30 December 1892) was a Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, The Nore.

Naval career

Born the son of Captain Robert Lethbridge RN, Thomas Lethbridge joined the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 in 1843. Promoted to Captain

Captain (naval)

Captain is the name most often given in English-speaking navies to the rank corresponding to command of the largest ships. The NATO rank code is OF-5, equivalent to an army full colonel....

 in 1863, he commanded HMS Himalaya, HMS Simoom, HMS Trafalgar

HMS Trafalgar (1841)

HMS Trafalgar was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 June 1841 at Woolwich Dockyard. She was the last to be completed of the successful Caledonia class....

, HMS Northumberland

HMS Northumberland (1750)

HMS Northumberland was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Plymouth Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 1 December 1750....

, HMS Black Prince

HMS Black Prince (1861)

HMS Black Prince was the third ship of that name to serve with the Royal Navy. She was the world's second ocean-going, iron-hulled, armoured warship, following her sister ship, . For a brief period the two s were the most powerful warships in the world, being virtually impregnable to the naval guns...

 and then HMS Duncan. He was appointed Commander-in-Chief, The Nore in 1888. He retired in 1890.