Enlisted on the frigate Le Rhin, he took part in the American campaign under the command of Admiral de Villeneuve.
In 1830 he participated in the invasion of Algiers,[3] on the frigate Belle-Gabrielle; he commanded a landing company on the beach of Sidi Fredj.
Captain de Ricaudy then commanded the fluyt La Meuse and then the corvette l'Ariane with which he took part in a South American campaign, lasting two and a half years, to protect and assist French commerce on the coasts of Brazil, Chile and Peru.
Back in France, now a ship’s captain,[5] Ricaudy held various commands before being appointed, in 1842, director of the port at Toulon.
[6] In 1848 he commanded a squadron that deterred an Austrian attack on Venice during the First Italian War of Independence,[7][8] where his conduct and services were recognized with the rank of rear admiral on 16 October, 1848.