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Rh ROE. 

entered the Navy, 28 Oct. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capts. Hon. Michael De Courcy, Jas. Bradby, and Fras. Pickmore, attached to the Channel fleet. In Sept. 1805 (he had previously attained the rating of Midshipman) he joined the 74, Capt. Fras. Pickmore, on the West India station, where, in the course of the same month, he was received on board the 74, bearing the flag of the late Sir Alex. Cochrane, and 38, Capt. Geo. Tobin. In the latter ship he took part, 5 Oct. in the same year, in a severe action of an hour, near Tobago, with La Cyane of 26 and La Naïade of 16 guns, the former of which then surrendered. He continued in the, employed in the occasional escort of convoys, until Feb. 1810. On his return, shortly afterwards, to the West Indies in the 32, Capt. Sir Wm. Bolton, he joined the sloop, Capt. Edw. Dix; and, on 10 May, 1810, at which period he was again serving with Sir Alex. Cochrane in the 98, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. During the next four years he was employed on the West India and Channel stations in the 20, Capts. Wm. Robilliard, Crofton, Frank Gore Willock, and Fras. Newcombe. He served subsequently – in 1814-15, in the and  sloops, Capts. Wm. Kelly and David Braimer, on the coast of Ireland – and, from 1 Sept. 1818 until 1821, in the 46, Capt. Hon. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, on the Mediterranean station. Since 5 March, 1830, he has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard.

 ROEPEL. 

was born 1 Nov. 1793, and died in the early part of 1847.

This officer entered the Navy, 1 Nov. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 100, Capt. Rich. Dalling Dunn, bearing the flag in the Channel of Sir John Thos. Duckworth; previously to following whom, in July, 1809, into the 110, he went in pursuit of the French fleet to the West Indies. After uniting, in the 74, flag-ship of Sir Rich. John Strachan, in the operations against Flushing, he became Midshipman, in Jan. 1810, of the 32, Capts. Sir Wm. Bolton and Sir John Louis, employed at first on the Irish station, and next off Cadiz and Gibraltar. Removing with Sir John Louis, in the spring of 1811, to 36, he served in that ship at the blockade of Toulon, was present in her at the capture of convoys at Pisa, Calvi, and Porto Maurizio, and witnessed the surrender of Genoa and Corsica. He was nominated, 28 April, 1814, Acting-Lieutenant of the 10, Capt. Thos. Colby; was officially promoted 10 Aug. following; and was subsequently appointed to the command – 7 Feb. 1829, of the cutter, on the Jersey station, where he remained, in protection of the oyster fisheries, until July, 1832 – 1 Nov. 1832, for one year, of the  8, in the Channel – 17 Nov. 1834, of the  steamer, in which vessel, employed in the Mediterranean, he continued until July, 1835 – and, 29 Oct. 1839 and 10 June, 1841, of the  steam-packet, and  cutter, stationed in the Channel and North Sea. For his appointment to the Mr. Roepel was indebted to his knowledge of the French language. The zeal and efficiency he displayed in that vessel gained him the approbation of Sir Robt. Stopford, the Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, of Sir Robt. Peel, then Secretary of State for the Home department, and of the Lords of the Admiralty, to whom moreover he was strongly recommended by Lieut.-General Sir Colin Halkett, the Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey. Prior to joining the he officiated for some time as an Agent for Mails in the  and. He was superseded from the in Feb. 1842, having been advanced to the rank of Commander on 23 of the preceding Nov.; and he was lastly, from 25 July, 1845, until posted 6 Nov. 1846, employed, again on the Jersey station, in the  cutter. – Hallett and Robinson.

 ROGERS. 

entered the Navy, 3 Dec. 1803, as A.B., on board the James tender, Lieut.-Commander John Couch, on the Milford station. In Jan. 1804 he attained the rating of Midshipman; and from April, 1805, until Aug. 1811, he was employed in that capacity and as Master’s Mate in the 64, Capt. Hon. Geo. Byng. In Jan. 1806 he assisted, in command of a boat, at the debarkation of the troops prior to the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope; and in the ensuing Nov. he contributed in the boats to the capture and destruction of a Dutch frigate, seven brigs-of-war, and about 20 armed and other merchant-vessels, in Batavia Roads. In Dec. 1811 he rejoined Capt. Byng, then Lord Torrington, on board the 74; and after serving with him for two years and seven months off Flushing and in the Baltic and West Indies, he was nominated, 26 July, 1814, Acting-Lieutenant of the  74, Capt. Robt. Lloyd. On 26 Sept. following he was employed in the boats of a squadron, and was wounded, in an unsuccessful attempt made to cut out from the road of Fayal the American privateer General Armstrong a vessel whose resistance killed 34 and wounded 86 of her assailants, consisting originally of about 180 seamen and marines. He removed, 5 Nov. 1814, to the 38, Capt. Philip Somerville, also in the capacity of Acting-Lieutenant; but left that ship on 22 of the same month, and on 10 Feb. 1815 was advanced, officially, to his present rank. He has since been on half-pay.

 ROGERS. 

was born 8 March, 1794. This officer entered the Navy, 14 Jan. 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 100, Capt. Rich. Dalling Dunn, bearing the flag of Sir John Thos. Duckworth in the Channel, In the course of the same year he joined the 110, flagship of the same Admiral at Plymouth, and  38, Capt. Rich. Raggett, stationed on the coast of North America. Between June, 1810, and April, 1815, he was employed at Newfoundland as Midshipman and Master’s Mate in the 50 and  74, bearing the flags of Sir J. T. Duckworth and Sir Rich. Goodwin Keats; and in Sept. 1815, at which period he was serving with Lord Exmouth in the Mediterranean on board the 98, he was presented with a commission dated 8 of the preceding March. He then joined, for a few weeks, the sloop, Capt. John Miller Adye; and was subsequently appointed – 7 June, 1816, to the  10, Capt. Thos. Carew, stationed in the Channel – 12 July following, to the 100, flag-ship of Lord Exmouth, under whom he fought at Algiers – 13 Nov. 1816, to the  100, bearing the flag of the same nobleman and of Sir J. T. Duckworth at Plymouth, where he remained, latterly as Acting-Flag-Lieutenant, until April, 1821 – for a short time in Nov. 1828, to the  18, Capt. Geo. Lloyd, from which vessel he was sent to sick-quarters at Teneriffe in consequence of a severe injury occasioned by the fall of a block – and, in Oct. 1830, to the 84, Capt. Geo. Burdett, on the Mediterranean station. He attained his present rank 3 June, 1831, and has not been since afloat.

Commander Rogers married, in Oct. 1823, Miss Charlotte Bridgeman Willyams, of Breage, co. Cornwall.

 ROGERS. 

passed his examination in 1830; and obtained his first commission 9 Jan. 1837. His subsequent appointments were – 1 March, 1837, and 23 April, 1838, to the 18, Capt.