A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Rogers, Richard Eales
ROGERS. (Lieutenant, 1828.)
Richard Eales Rogers entered the Navy 11 Feb. 1810; and while serving on board the Castilian 18, Capt. David Braimer, contributed to the cutting out of a brig from under the batteries of Tréport – partook, 21 Sept. 1811, of an action with the Boulogne flotilla, in which the Castilian had her First-Lieutenant and 1 man severely wounded – and was in company with the Bermuda 10, Rinaldo 10, and Phipps 14, at the recapture, 4 May, 1812, of the (lately British) sloop-of-war Apelles under the fire of a battery near Boulogne. He passed his examination in 1816; for his services in the Aetna bomb at the reduction of Morea Castle, the last stronghold of the Turks in the Peloponnesus, and was made Lieutenant, 22 Oct. 1828, into the Wolf 18, Capt. Geo. Hayes. He continued in that vessel as First-Lieutenant until 1830; and has not been since employed.