A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dyke, Peché Hart
DYKE. (Commander, 1844. f-p., 21; h-p., 8.)
Peché Hart Dyke, born 21 Nov. 1805, is sixth son of Sir Percival Hart Dyke, Bart., of Lullingstone Castle, co. Kent, by Anne, daughter of Robt. Jenner, Esq., of Chislehurst; brother of Lieut. Octavius Hart Dyke, R.N. (1836), who died 8 July, 1844, as also of Augustus Hart Dyke, Esq., E.I. co.’s army; and nephew of Geo. Hart Dyke, Esq., Lieut.-Colonel in the Guards, who died 6 Nov. 1843.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 5 Nov. 1818; and embarked, 9 Nov. 1821, as Midshipman, on board the Euryalus 42, Capt. Augustus Wm. Jas. Clifford, in which ship, and in the Cambrian 48, Capt. Gawen Wm. Hamilton, he served, on the Mediterranean station, until April, 1826. Passing his examination in the following summer, he next successively joined, as Mate, the Victory 100, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Martin, Hussar 46, Capt. Edw. Boxer, Challenger 28, Capt. Adolphus FitzClarence, Rattlesnake 28, Capts. Chas. Orlando Bridgeman, Sir Thos. Pasley, and Chas. Graham, Pelican 18, Capt. Joseph Gape, and St. Vincent 120, bearing the flag of Hon. Sir Henry Hotham – which ships appear to have been employed on the Home, North American, and Mediterranean stations. As a Lieutenant, to which rank he was promoted 28 Oct. 1831, Mr. Dyke’s appointments, we find, were – 24 July, 1833, to the Wasp 16, Capts. Jas. Burney and John Sam. Foreman, in the West Indies – 24 Jan. 1838, and 11 May, 1839, as Senior Lieutenant, to the Scylla 16, and Tribune 24, Capts. Hon. Joseph Denman and Chas. Hamlyn Williams, under the latter of whom he was wrecked on the Lisbon station, in Jan. 1840 – and, 2 Nov. 1840, in a similar capacity, to the Iris 26, Capts. Hugh Nurse, Wm. Tucker, and Geo. Rodney Mundy. He returned home from the coast of Africa in Aug. 1843; attained his present rank 20 June, 1844; and since 19 May, 1846, has been again employed on the African coast, in command of the Flying Fish 12.