Lieutentant George Mifflin Bache, Sr.

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George Mifflin Bache [Sr.] was a lieutenant in the Navy. His wife was Eliza (Patterson) Bache, daughter of Commodore Daniel Todd Patterson. One of his brothers-in-law was naval officer David Dixon Porter, son of Commodore David Porter. In 1846, the George Mifflin Bache, Sr., was swept overboard during a gale while in command of the U.S.S. Washington (brig), engaged on duty with the Coast Survey.

Their is a monument in the Congressional Cemetery of a broken mast inscribed with the names of Lieutenant Bache and the ten members of the crew who died in the hurricane September 8, 1846 off Cape Hatteras. They were among the first in the United States to lose their lives in the pursuit of scientific knowledge.