Named as being off the Cape by Byron in 1811-06-19 to Hobhouse. Next to the Sagres Point, on the so-called
Costa Vicentina (Vincentine Coast), is a headland in the municipality of Sagres, in the Algarve, southern Portugal. Wiki
Byron to Hobhouse 1811-05-15. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Volage_(1807). Captain Phipps Hornby, fought at the Battle Lissa and was decorated. See Royal Museum Greenwich.
Named as being off the Cape St Vincent by Byron in 1811-06-19 to…
Diplomatist and army officer. Mentioned by Byron to Hobhouse in 1811-07-31a and by Hobhouse in 1811-08-02: "Thomas Bruce (1766-1841), seventh earl of Elgin and eleventh earl of Kincardine, was serving as ambassador to the Ottoman Porte when under his…