by John Marshall

“ On the 11th Jan. 1808, Lieutenant Rowe obtained a pension for his wounds, the present amount of which is 200l. per annum; and when sufficiently recovered he was ordered out to the Leeward Islands on promotion. He accordingly proceeded thither in the Rosamond sloop, Captain Benjamin Walker; and after serving for a short time in the Abercrombie 74, Captain (now Sir William Charles) Fahie, was advanced by Sir Alexander Cochrane to the command of the St. Christopher sloop, an appointment which appears to have been confirmed by the Admiralty, May 2d, 1810. ”

“ Thus mangled, he fell into the sea at a considerable distance from the spot where the explosion took place, and was in the act of sinking when a seaman caught hold of his hair and dragged him into a boat belonging to the Thunder bomb, on board of which vessel he underwent immediate amputation: the other sufferers by the same unlucky event were thirty in number, of whom the master of the transport and nine men were killed, and a mate of the Valiant (named Philip Tomlinson) and nineteen men wounded, the former mortally. ”

“ During the subsequent operations of the squadron under Sir John T. Duckworth, Lieutenant Rowe served as a volunteer on board the Windsor Castle 98, Captain Charles Boyles, which ship, when returning through the Dardanelles, was struck by several marble shot of great size, one in particular measuring six feet eleven inches in circumference: her total loss, however, did not exceed four men killed, and twenty, including Mr. ”