In 1741 Byron was shipwrecked while serving as a midshipman in the Pacific under Commodore Anson, an account of which he published as The Narrative of the Hon. John Byron (1768).

REFERENCES TO WORKS BY Admiral John Byron [Foulweather Jack]:

The Narrative of the honourable John Byron, Commodore in a late Expedition round the World: containing an Account of the great Distresses suffered by himself and his Companions on the Coast of Patagonia, from the Year 1740, till their Arrival in England, 1746, with a Description of St Jago de Chili, and the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants: also, a Relation of the loss of the Wager, Man of War, one of the Admiral Anson's Squadron.