2197413Royal Naval Biography — Ratsey, EdwardJohn Marshall


EDWARD RATSEY, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1806.]

Son, we believe, of Lieutenant Robert Ratsey, R.N. who died at Cowes, in 1814.

This officer served as a Lieutenant on board the Culloden 74, bearing the flag of Sir Edward Pellew, now Viscount Exmouth, in the East Indies; on which station he was successively advanced to the rank of Commander and Post-Captain. His commissions were confirmed by the Admiralty, Feb. 4, 1806, and Sept. 5, in the same year.

In Aug. 1805, we find Captain Ratsey commanding the Harrier brig of 18 guns, which vessel had 2 men wounded, and was much cut up in her masts, sails, and rigging, whilst engaged with a French frigate, in the Philippine archipelago; an account of which action will be found in James’s Naval History, 2d edit. Vol. IV, pp. 219–221.