A Naval Biographical Dictionary/De Roverea, Frederick Nicholas
DE ROVEREA. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
Frederick Nicholas De Roverea died about the early part of 1847.
This officer entered the Navy, 6 Dec. 1806, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the Malta 80, Capts. Edw. Buller and Wm. Shield, employed off Cadiz and in the Mediterranean. Between Aug. 1808 and June, 1814, he served, under Capt. Rich. Hussey Moubray, in the Montagu and Repulse 74’s; in the former of which ships he assisted at the reduction, in April, 1810, of the island of Sta. Maura, where the Montagu lost 4 men killed and 21 wounded. After a further attachment to the Salvador del Mundo, Impregnable, and St. George, flag-ships of Sir John Thos. Duckworth at Plymouth, Mr. De Roverea (who, while in the Montagu and Repulse, had also seen much active boat-service) obtained a Lieutenant’s commission, dated 24 Feb. 1815. He did not afterwards go afloat. Agent – Fred. Dufaur.