A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Rye, George Hubert
RYE. (Retired Commander, 1847. f-p., 11;[1] h-p., 38.)
George Hubert Rye entered the Navy, in May, 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Jalouse sloop, Capt. John Temple, stationed in the North Sea; and in the following year was present as Midshipman of the Ardent 64, Capt. Thos. Bertie, in the expedition to Holland. After participating in the Modeste, Capt. Martin Hinton, in the operations of 1801 in Egypt, he returned home from the Mediterranean in the spring of 1802 on board the Pallas, Capt. Jos. Edmonds. From April, 1803, until the early part of 1809 he served on the North Sea, Newfoundland, Lisbon, and Downs stations, in the Ceres, Lieut.-Commander Johnson, Crescent, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, Terror, Lieut.-Commander Whitaker, Curlew, Capt. Jas. Murray Northey, Capelin, Lieut.-Commander M‘Donald, Elizabeth 74, Capt. Hon. Henry Curzon, and Glommen, Capt. Chas. Pickford. On 8 March, 1809, he was made Lieutenant into the Rolla 10, Capt. Sam. Clarke, lying in the Downs; and between the following Nov. and Dec. 1810 he was employed in Quiberon Bay, off Flushing, and in the Tagus, in the Cadmus 10, Capt. Thos. Fife, Audacious 74, Capt. Donald Campbell, and Romulus frigate, commanded by the present Earl of Leven and Melville. In Nov. 1823 he obtained an appointment in the Water Guard. He accepted his present rank 9 April, 1847.
- ↑ Apart from the time he passed in the Water Guard.