A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Rowe, James
ROWE. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 12; h-p., 32.)
James Rowe entered the Navy, in 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ville de Paris 110, Capt. Wm. Henry Ricketts, bearing the flag of Hon. Wm. Cornwallis in the Channel. In Sept. 1805 he became Midshipman, at Plymouth, of the Généreux 74; and from March, 1806, until Jan. 1813, he served on the West India, Mediterranean, and Home stations, the latter part of the time in the capacity of Master’s Mate, in the Belleisle and Northumberland 74’s, Capts. Wm. Hargood and Hon. Henry Hotham. In the Belleisle he witnessed the destruction of the French 74-gun ship L’Impétueux, near Cape Henry, 14 Sept. 1806; and in the Northumberland, while cruizing off L’Orient in company with the Growler gun-brig, he assisted at the gallant destruction, 22 May, 1812, of the French 40-gun frigates L’Arienne and L’Andromaque, and 16-gun brig Mamelouck, whose united fire, conjointly with that of a heavy battery, killed 5 and wounded 28 of the Northumberland’s people. After he had been for a short time borne on the books of the Royal William, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Sir Edw. Thornbrough, he joined, in April, 1813, the Wolfe 24, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo on Lake Ontario, where he continued employed in the Star brig, Capts. Fras. Brockill Spilsbury and Chas. Anthony, until taken prisoner, 31 May, 1814, in an unsuccessful boat-attack made under Capt. Stephen Popham upon the enemy’s flotilla at Sandy Creek. Since he returned to England he has been on half-pay. His commission bears date 16 Aug. 1814.[1] Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1B14, p. 1466. His conduct, as will be there seen, was highly creditable.