Edward Tyng

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|battles = King George's War

• Siege of Annapolis Royal (1744)
• Siege of Annapolis Royal (1745)
• Siege of Louisbourg
• Capture of Vigilant

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Edward Tyng (1683 – 1755) was a Royal Navy officer who was captain of the batteries and fortifications of Boston and in command of the first Massachusetts man-of-war Prince of Orange (ship) (1740). He was the son-in-law of Cyprian Southack.{{cite book|last=Chapin|first=Howard M.|title=Privateering in King George's War, 1739-1748|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=txu.059173017850230;view=1up;seq=82|year=1928|publisher=E.A. Johnson Company|page=68}}

He was the son of Edward Tyng, who, during King William's War, was the commander of Fort Loyal, Fort William Henry and later became Governor of Acadia, only to be taken prisoner in the Naval battle off St. John (1691).{{Cite web|url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/tyng_edward_1680_91_1E.html|title=Biography – TYNG, EDWARD (fl. 1680-91) – Volume I (1000-1700) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography|website=www.biographi.ca}}

During King George's War he broke the Mi'kmaq militia, French and Acadian sieges of Annapolis Royal in 1744 and again the following year (1745). As commodore of the fleet, Tyng led 13 armed vessels and about 90 transports in the successful Siege of Louisbourg (1745). He participated in the Capture of the Vigilant and the destruction of Port Dauphin (Englishtown, Nova Scotia) in June 1745.{{cite book|last=Chapin|first=Howard M.|title=Privateering in King Georges̕ War, 1739-1748|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=txu.059173017850230;view=1up;seq=93|year=1928|publisher=E.A. Johnson Company|page=79}}

His son was Col William Tyng who was a soldier in the British army.{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/portlandinpast00gooliala|title=Portland in the past;|first=William|last=Goold|date=January 29, 1886|publisher=Portland, Me. : Printed for the author by B. Thurston & company|via=Internet Archive}}{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/americanloyalist00sabiuoft|title=The American loyalists : or, Biographical sketches of adherents to the British crown in the war of the revolution, alphabetically arranged, with a preliminary historical essay|first=Lorenzo|last=Sabine|date=January 29, 1847|publisher=Boston : Little and J. Brown|via=Internet Archive}}