A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Rideout, Samuel
RIDEOUT. (Commander, 1827, h-p., 23.)
Samuel Rideout entered the Navy, 6 July, 1797, as A.B., on board the Gallant, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Lyall, under whom, after cruizing in the Channel, he accompanied, in the capacity of Midshipman, the expedition of 1799 to Holland. In Nov. 1800 he removed to the Royal George 100, bearing the flag in the Channel of Sir Hyde Parker; and on following that officer into the London 98, he witnessed the battle fought at Copenhagen 2 April, 1801. After visiting the West Indies in the Edgar 74, Capt. Robt. Waller Otway, he was received in succession, in the course of 1802-3, on board the Ambuscade 32, Capt. David Atkins, and Ruby and Galykheid 64’s, Capts. Hon. Francis Farington Gardner and Isaac Wolley. In 1804 he sailed in the Culloden 74, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Pellew, for the East Indies; where he removed, in Jan. 1805, to the Albion 74, Capt. John Ferrier, went back, in the ensuing Sept., to the Culloden, and was nominated, 5 Feb. 1806, Acting-Lieutenant of the Concorde 36, commanded by the present Sir Josiah Coghill Coghill. He was confirmed a Lieutenant 21 Sept. 1807; and was subsequently appointed – 18 Dec. 1807, to the Northumberland 14, Capt. Wm. Hargood, on the Mediterranean station – 17 Sept. 1810, to the Bedford 74, Capt. Jas. Walker, in which ship he served in the North Sea and West Indies, escorted the Allied Sovereigns over from France in the summer of 1814, and accompanied the expedition against New Orleans – 12 Sept. and 31 Dec. 1815, and 17 Aug. 1816, to the Albion, Queen, and Northumberland 74’s, all commanded, as guard-ships at Sheerness, by Capt. Jas. Walker, with whom he remained until paid off in Sept. 1818 – 21 March, 1823, and 6 May, 1824, as Senior Lieutenant, to the Thetis 46, Capt. Sir John Phillimore, and Gloucester 74, Capts. Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen and Joshua Sydney Horton, on the Home station – and 27 March, 1826, again as First, to the Ganges 84, bearing the flag of Sir Robt. Waller Otway in South America. While serving in the latter ship he was promoted to the rank of Commander 11 May, 1827. He continued in her in that capacity until she was put out of commission in Sept. 1829; and has not been since afloat.