A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Roepel, Juste Peter
ROEPEL. (Captain, 1846. f-p., 16;[1] h-p., 24.)
Juste Peter 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 Royal George 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 San Josef 110, he went in pursuit of the French fleet to the West Indies. After uniting, in the Venerable 74, flag-ship of Sir Rich. John Strachan, in the operations against Flushing, he became Midshipman, in Jan. 1810, of the Druid 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 L’Aigle 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 Sphynx 10, Capt. Thos. Colby; was officially promoted 10 Aug. following; and was subsequently appointed to the command – 7 Feb. 1829, of the Cracker 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 Speedy 8, in the Channel – 17 Nov. 1834, of the Alban steamer, in which vessel, employed in the Mediterranean, he continued until July, 1835 – and, 29 Oct. 1839 and 10 June, 1841, of the Pigmy steam-packet, and Raven cutter, stationed in the Channel and North Sea. For his appointment to the Cracker 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 Pigmy he officiated for some time as an Agent for Mails in the Don Joan and City of Londonderry. He was superseded from the Raven in Feb. 1842, having been advanced to the rank of Commander on 23 of the preceding Nov.; and he was lastly, from 25 July, 1845, until posted 6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 Seaflower cutter. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
- ↑ Exclusive of the time he was afloat as mail-agent.