Robertson, Lieutenant John Downie, in the battle of Lake Champlain, iii. 165. Robinson, Captain Isaiah, i. 69; captures the _Racehorse_, _ib._ Rodgers, Rear-admiral John, with Midshipman David Porter and others, sail the captured frigate _Insurgent_ with 173 French on her, i. 323; brings the ship safely into St. Kitts, _ib._; ready to move his fleet in one hour, ii. 28; starts to intercept a big fleet of merchantmen, 29; chases the _Belvidera_, _ib._; fires the first shot of the War of 1812, 30; his leg broken, 31; the frigate escapes him, 32; cruises and captures merchantmen and recaptures an American ship, _ib._; challenged by the _Guerrière_, 72; sails from Boston, 121; chases the British frigate _Nymphe_, 151; chases the _Curlew_, 358; falls in with the British schooner _Highflyer_, and secures her book of private signals and instructions, _ib._; value and usefulness of the book, 359; ordered to report to General Frémont, iv. 241; buys and fits out merchant-vessels, _ib._; relieved of his command, 250; appointed head of Board of Naval Officers, 527. Rodgers, Captain John, iv. 480. Rodgers, Commander George W., killed on the _Catskill_, iv. 480, 491. Rodgers, Captain R. C. P., at Port Royal, iv. 163. Rodman, Captain United States Ordnance Department, his experience with heavy guns, iv. 18, 20. _Rodolph_, Federal wrecking steamer, sunk by a torpedo, iv. 406. _Roebuck_, British frigate, captures the _Confederacy_, i. 298. Roosevelt, Clinton, proposed steel-plated ship, iv. 9. Rooster, a sporting, iii. 155. _Rose_, British ship, captured by Lieutenant Downes, iii. 10; sent to St. Helena as a cartel, 12. _Rota_, British frigate, in the attack on the _General Armstrong_, iii. 188–200. Rowan, Captain Stephen C., iv. 99; destroys the Confederate fleet at Roanoke Island, 110. _Royal Savage_, American schooner, i. 89. _Royal Yacht_, Confederate privateer, blockaded by the _Santee_ in Galveston, iv. 138. Russell, Lieutenant John H., iv. 314. Russell, Lord, correspondence about the _Trent_ affair, iv. 150–152; letter of, on the closing of Charleston Harbor, 471, 472. _S. J. Waring_, merchantman, captured by Confederate privateer _Jefferson Davis_, iv. 91. _Sabine_, Federal sailing ship, rescues the crew of the _Governor_, iv. 167. Sackett’s Harbor, N. Y., chosen as a naval station, ii. 264; attacked by the British, 345. Sailors, kidnapped, cruelty to, on British ships, i. 387. Sailor’s rights ignored by politicians, ii. 18. St. Eustatius, Governor of, gives first salute to the American flag, i. 69. _St. James_, American privateer, beats off a British frigate, i. 206. St. John’s, British fleet built at, i. 87. St. Laurent, Captain, deceived by Captain Bainbridge, i. 317.