A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Roe, Robert Bradley
ROE. (Lieutenant, 1810. f-p., 32; h-p., 12.)
Robert Bradley Roe entered the Navy, 28 Oct. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Plantagenet 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 Ramillies 74, Capt. Fras. Pickmore, on the West India station, where, in the course of the same month, he was received on board the Northumberland 74, bearing the flag of the late Sir Alex. Cochrane, and Princess Charlotte 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 Princess Charlotte, employed in the occasional escort of convoys, until Feb. 1810. On his return, shortly afterwards, to the West Indies in the Druid 32, Capt. Sir Wm. Bolton, he joined the Cygnet sloop, Capt. Edw. Dix; and, on 10 May, 1810, at which period he was again serving with Sir Alex. Cochrane in the Neptune 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 Wanderer 20, Capts. Wm. Robilliard, Crofton, Frank Gore Willock, and Fras. Newcombe. He served subsequently – in 1814-15, in the Insolent and Castilian sloops, Capts. Wm. Kelly and David Braimer, on the coast of Ireland – and, from 1 Sept. 1818 until 1821, in the Révolutionnaire 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.