| 5 February 1906 | Admiral Lindesay Brine, F.R.G.S. died at Torquay on Friday afternoon in his 72nd year. He had been ill since Monday. Admiral Brine, who had lived at Torquay for five years, was a Younger Brother of the Trinity House and one of the Naval Assessors to the House of Lords. He entered the Navy in 1847, and was mate of the Leander during the operations in the Black Sea in 1854. He commanded an outpost battery at Eupatoria at the action. of November 14, was mentioned in despatches and gazetted "for meritorious services," and promoted lieutenant, receiving in addition for his services the Crimean and Turkish medals with the Sevastopol clasp. After serving as lieutenant of the Retribution in the Baltic and Golf of Bothnia he was sent out to China, where he was in charge of a division of boats at the attack on Peiho forts in 1859, and commanded the Opossum at the capture of the forts in the following year. Subsequently he was captain of the Briton and senior officer on the east coast of Africa, and was employed in the suppression of the slave trade, receiving from the Admiralty the expression of "their appreciation of the able manner in which the service had been carried out" In 1875 he accompanied Sir Douglas Forsyth to Mandalay with the mission to the King of Burma, and in the following year he proceeded in the Briton with the Resident at Aden to Tamarida to execute a treaty with the Sultan, of Socotra. At the occupation of Cyprus in 1879 he commanded the Invincible. Admiral Brine received the gold medal of the Royal United Service Institution for 1882, and was the author of "The Taeping Rebellion" and "American Indians: Their Ancient Earthworks and Temples." He retired in 1894. |
