Rear-Admiral George Sayer CB (1773 – 29 April 1831) was a Royal Navy officer who twice became Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies Station.
Sayer joined the Royal Navy at an early age and first saw action in HMS Phoenix in the campaign against Tipu Sultan on the Malabar Coast.
Sayer received promotion to post captain on 14 February 1801, but was appointed to his next command, HMS Proselyte, only in late 1804.
[2] He was given command of HMS Galatea in July 1805 and on 11 September 1805 shared with Circe, Africaine, Hippomenes, Amelia, and the schooner Maria in the proceeds of the capture of the brig Hiram.
[3] On 18 August 1806 Galatea's barge, under Lieutenant M'Culloch, captured a schooner several miles up a river near Puerto Cabello, Venezuela.