8vo, London, 1820), a useful compilation, intended as a continuation of the Naval Chronology of Captain Isaac Schomberg, but on a more extended scale.
He afterwards wrote The Naval Biography of Great Britain, consisting of Historical Memoirs of those Officers of the British Navy who distinguished themselves during the reign of his Majesty George III, (4 vols.
The appendix also contains an account of the battle of Navarino, and in the following year, 1829, Ralfe issued a pamphlet in justification of Sir Edward Codrington's conduct.
The matter of the several memoirs in the Naval Biography seems to have been for the most part contributed by the subjects of them, and may be accepted as correct as to facts.
As a pecuniary venture, it is said to have been unsuccessful, and in 1829 an attempt was made by some of the senior officers of the navy to raise a fund for the author's benefit, the subscriptions to be paid to his publishers, Messrs. Whitmore & Fenn, 6 Charing Cross (advertisement at the end of the Navarino pamphlet).