A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Rorie, George
RORIE. (Retired Commander, 1847. f-p., 14; h-p., 38.)
George Rorie died 8 Dec. 1847 at Plymouth, aged 60.
This officer entered the Navy 2 Nov. 1795, as A.B., on board the Standard 64, Capts. Joseph Ellison, Wm. Lukin, Geo. Burlton, and Thos. Parr on the books of which ship, employed on the coast of France, off St. Helena, and in the North Sea, he continued until Jan. 1797. In Jan. 1799 he joined, for nearly four months, the Europa, Lieut.-Commander John Gardiner, lying at Plymouth; he served next, between March, 1801, and July, 1802, as Midshipman, in the Zealous 74, Capt. Sam. Hood Linzee, in the Baltic, off Cadiz, and in the West Indies; and from April, 1803, until June, 1807, he was employed, chiefly on the Home Station, in the Salvador del Mundo, Capts. Henry Lane and John Dilkes, Fisgard and Alcmène frigates, Capts. Lord Mark Robt. Kerr, John Stiles, and Jas. Brisbane, Salvador del Mundo again, Capt. John Loring, and, as Master’s Mate (a rating he had held in the Alcmène), in the Alceste 38, Capt. Murray Maxwell. He was then nominated Sub-Lieutenant of the Rebuff gun-brig, Lieut.-Commanders John Whiston and Chas. J. Leaver, with whom he served on the coast of France until advanced to the rank of Lieutenant 25 March, 1809. His last appointments were – 25 May, 1809, to the Leyden 64, Capt. Thos. Usher, lying at Sheerness – 13 June following, to the Royalist sloop, Capts. John Maxwell and Geo. Downie, stationed in the Downs, where his health obliged him, in Oct. 1810, to invalid – 10 April, 1811, to .the Gibraltar 80, Capts. Robt. Plampin and Geo. Scott, attached to the Channel fleet – and, 3 Feb. 1812, to the Ocean 98, Capt. Robt. Plampin, with whom he served in the Mediterranean until July, 1814. He accepted the rank of Commander on the Retired List 9 April, 1847. Agent – J. Hinxman.