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Browse officers in command: A - B; C - E; F - G; H - K; L - O; P - R; S - T; U - Z; ??
| John Bythesea R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Son of Rev. George Bythesea, of Somerset | |||
| 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 | ||
| 1875 | Married Fanny Prior | ||
| 1878 | 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) | ||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 1841 | Entered Navy | ||
| 12 June 1849 | Lieutenant | ||
| 10 May 1856 | Commander | ||
| 15 May 1861 | Captain | ||
| 5 August 1877 | Retired Rear-Admiral | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| 22 June 1850 | Lieutenant in Arrogant, commanded by Robert Spencer Robinson, particular service | ||
| 28 September 1852 | Lieutenant in Arrogant, commanded by Henry Bartle Edward Frere, Portsmouth | ||
| 24 October 1853 | Lieutenant in Arrogant, commanded by Hastings Reginald Yelverton, Portsmouth, then (1854) the Baltic during the Russian War | ||
| 12 March 1855 | Lieutenant and commander in Locust, Flying Squadron, the Baltic | ||
| 4 March 1858 | 1 May 1861 | Commander in Cruiser (until paying off at Portsmouth), East Indies and China (including 2nd Anglo-Chinese War) | |
| 1862 | Served on the Commission to examine Canadian defences | ||
| 30 March 1863 | 11 April 1864 | Captain in Archer (from commissioning at Woolwich), west coast of Africa (until invalided) | |
| 1 April 1866 | 1867 | Additional captain in Duncan, for special service (Naval Attache in Washington) | |
| 6 May 1867 | 29 November 1870 | Captain 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 1871 | April 1872 | Captain 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) | |
| 1874 | 1880 | Consulting Naval Officer to the Indian Government (until the Indian Navy was restructured) | |
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