A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Tyte, Robert William
TYTE. (Retired Commander, 1840. f-p., 14; h-p., 40.)
Robert William Tyte entered the Navy, 19 Feb. 1793, as Ordinary, on board the Iris 32, Capt. Geo. Lumsdaine; and on 13 May following was present in a severe action with the Citoyenne Française French frigate, productive of a loss to the British of 4 men killed and 32 wounded, and to the enemy of 15 killed and 37 wounded. From March, 1794, until transferred, in April, 1800, to the Tigre 74, Capt. Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, he served, part of the time as Midshipman, in the Theseus 74, commanded, amongst others, by Capts. Robt. Calder, Herbert Browell, John Aylmer, and Ralph Willet Miller. In July, 1797, he accompanied (under the flag of Sir Horatio Nelson) the expedition to Teneriffe; and on 1 Aug. 1798 he was present at the battle of the Nile. In the Tigre he shared in Sir Sidney Smith’s operations in Egypt and assisted at the defence of St. Jean d’Acre. From 29 June until 7 Oct. 1801, he served off the latter place and again on the coast of Egypt, as Acting-Lieutenant and Commander, in La Dangereuse: he was confirmed a Lieutenant 22 April, 1802; and was afterwards employed – from 14 May, 1803, until 23 Sept. 1804, in command, off the coast of Kent and Suffolk, of gun-vessel No. 1 – from 25 May until 27 Sept. 1805, in the Romulus 36, Capt. Thos. Burton, off the Naze – and from 28 Sept. 1805 until 31 Aug. 1806, and from 6 Sept. 1811 until 7 June, 1814, in command of the Desperate gun-vessel and Glory, off Boulogne and in the river Medway. He was admitted to the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital 18 Dec. 1823; and placed on the list of Retired Commanders 30 June, 1840. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.