John Bythesea R.N.
John Bythesea R.N.

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John Bythesea R.N.Explanation
Son of Rev. George Bythesea (1792-1853)
 
Date (from)(Date to)Personal
15 June 1827 Born (Freshford, Somerset)
12 August 1854 While serving in Arrogant, he - together with stoker William Johnstone - ambushed couriers carrying Russian dispatches on Waldo Island in the Baltic, for this they were subsequently awarded the Victoria Cross
7 July 1866 Married, firstly, Helen Dunbar Milne (1840-1899) ; marriage dissolved 22 July 1873 on the grounds of hed adultry
26 March 1874 Married, secondly, Fanny Belinda (1845-1925), daughter of George Nelson Prior (1806-1866)
2 June 1877 C.B. (Companion of the Bath)
1 January 1878 C.I.E. (Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire)
18 May 1906 Died (South Kensington)
Obituary in the Times newspaper
 
DateRank
1841Entered Navy
6 January 1848Mate
12 June 1849Lieutenant
10 May 1856Commander
15 May 1861Captain
5 August 1877Retired Rear-Admiral
 
Date fromDate toService
26 July 185025 September 1852Lieutenant in Arrogant, commanded by Captain Robert Spencer Robinson, Lisbon
28 September 185213 March 1855Lieutenant in Arrogant, commanded by Captain Stephen Grenville Fremantle then Captain Hastings Reginald Yelverton, Western squadron then (1854) the Baltic during the Russian War
14 March 185519 May 1856Lieutenant and commander in Locust, Flying Squadron, the Baltic
5 March 18581 May 1861Commander in Cruizer (until paying off at Portsmouth), East Indies and China (including 2nd Anglo-Chinese War)
25 February 186211 November 1862Additional Captain in Fisgard, commanded by Captain Frederick William Erskine Nicolson, Woolwich, for service on the Canadian Defence Commission
11 April 18635 April 1864Captain in Archer (from commissioning at Woolwich), west coast of Africa (until invalided)
4 March 18651 May 1867Additional captain in Duncan, for special service (Naval Attache in Washington)
2 May 186729 November 1870Captain in Phoebe (from commissioning at Plymouth until paying off), Channel squadron, then the West Indies, then 1869 flying squadron (joining at Bahia on 4 August 1869)
14 September 187125 April 1872Captain in Lord Clyde, Mediterranean (until, in March 1872, Lord Clyde ran aground on the island of Pantelleria, west of Malta, and had to be towed off by her sister ship, Lord Warden. The subsequent court-martial severely reprimanded Bythesea and the Navigating Officer, dismissed from their ship and neither of them were ever employed at sea again)
18741880Consulting Naval Officer to the Indian Government (until the Indian Navy was restructured)

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