Note 131 — Chapter XXVII · THE SEARCH FOR FRANKLIN. I.
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Captain Austin was afterwards Superintendent of Deptford Dockyard during the Crimean War, a post of great importance at that time, Admiral, K.C.B., and Admiral Superintendent of Malta Dockyard in 1863; he died in 1865. Captain Ommanney, in the Eurydice, commanded the squadron in the White Sea. In 1853 he had the Hawke in the Baltic; and the Brunswick in the West Indies until 1860. He was Captain Superintendent at Gibraltar in 1864, retiring a K.C.B. in 1874. He died in December 1904, aged 91.