Henry Coey Kane

Admiral Sir Henry Coey Kane KCB (3 December 1843[1] – 30 January 1917) was a Royal Navy officer.

In 1887 he was appointed to command the new cruiser HMS Calliope in the Pacific, and after service in China and Australia was sent to Samoa to watch over a growing international crisis there.

This posting is generally remembered for a remarkable act of seamanship; when Calliope was in harbour, the island was struck by a powerful cyclone.

Of the eleven ships present, only Calliope was able to successfully escape the harbour and ride out the cyclone at sea; the others were beached or wrecked, with over two hundred lives lost.

He was later made CB in the Queen's Birthday Honours for 1891, and given command of HMS Duke of Wellington that year.