 In 1807 Lyons was transferred to the 74-gun , on which he was involved in the evacuation of the Messina Straits in the winter of 1807.He was involved in the assault on the Castle of Santa Maura on the Greek island of Lefkada in the Ionian Sea.He married Caroline Bowen (b.1789), who was the daughter of Major Bowen R. A., in 1810 at St. Paul's Anglican Cathedral in Malta.