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Browse officers in command: A - B; C - E; F - G; H - K; L - O; P - R; S - T; U - Z; ??
| William Henderson Truscott R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| June 1859 | Died (of yellow fever in the mail steamer, Ethiope, returning from Sierra Leone after surviving the loss of his ship) | ||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 3 May 1853 | Lieutenant | ||
| 15 June 1855 | Commander | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| (1854) | 22 May 1854 | Lieutenant in Centaur, commanded by Edward St Leger Cannon, flagship of Rear-Admiral William Willmott Hendersonsouth-east coast of America | |
| 22 May 1854 | Lieutenant in Powerful, commanded by Thomas Lecke Massie, particular service | ||
| March 1855 | Lieutenant and commander in Jasper, as tender to Hastings (but Jasper did not follow that ship to the Baltic during the Russian War, going instead to the Black Sea) | ||
| 3 October 1857 | 9 May 1859 | Commander in Heron, west coast of Africa (until the vessel foundered in a tornado between Ascension and Sierra Leone with the loss of 107 souls; Truscott and 24 other survived, but Triscott and two other survivors died of yellow fever on the passage home) | |
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