A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Innes, Robert Wintle
INNES. (Lieut., 1813. f-p., 27; h-p., 13.)
Robert Wintle Innes is brother of the late Retired Commander Wm. John Innes, R.N. This officer entered the Navy, 21 April, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Favorite sloop, Capts. John Nairne and Fred. Hoffman, employed at first off the coast of Africa, and then in the West Indies, where he accompanied Capt. Hoffman into the Goelan 18. Proceeding in 1808 to the East Indies in the Cornelia frigate, Capt. Henry Folkes Edgell, he there, in 1810-11, served on shore, as Midshipman, at the taking of the Isle of France, and similarly assisted at the storming of Fort Cornells during the operations connected with the reduction of Java. He returned home in 1812 with Capt. Edgell on board the Piedmontaise 38; and on 6 Dec. 1813, after he had further served on the Home station in the Thisbe 28, Capt. Thos. Dick, and San Josef and Queen Charlotte flag-ships of Lord Keith and Sir Pulteney Malcolm, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His subsequent appointments were – 22 Feb. 1814, to the Harrier 18, Capts. Andw. Pellet Green, John Forbes, and Sir Chas. Thos. Jones, employed off the Canary Islands – in 1815, to the Rifleman 18, and Pique 36, Capts. Henry Edw. Napier and Hon. Anthony Maitland – 21 Feb. 1816, to the Glasgow 40, Capt. Hon. A. Maitland, under whom he fought at Algiers – in April, 1821, to the command of the Ionia colonial vessel – 13 Dec. 1827 and 2 March, 1829, to the Infernal bomb, Capts. Edm. Williams Gilbert and Brunswick Popham – and Madagascar 46, Capt. Hon. Sir Robt. Cavendish Spencer, both on the Mediterranean station – for a short time in 1832 to the Vernon 50, Capt. Sir Fras. Augustus Collier, fitting at Woolwich – and 5 March, 1836, to the command of the Pandora packet on the Falmouth station. He has been on half-pay since Jan. 1842. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.