Career
Rover won fame with several bold engagements, including a single handed attack on a French convoy but she is most famous for a battle off the coast of South America with the Spanish naval schooner, Santa Rita, and three accompanying gunboats. On the coast of Venezuela in 1800, Rover captured Santa Rita of ten 6 pounders with two carronades and two gunboats, totaling a crew of 125. Rover did not lose a single man of its crew of 55. The capture made Godfrey a hero in British naval circles. He was celebrated in the British Naval Chronicle and offered a commission in the Royal Navy, which he declined.
Later cruises by Rover were less successful. A subsequent captain, Benjamin Collins, lost his letter of marque and created trouble for Rover's owners with the illegal capture of several merchant vessels.
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—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)
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—Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964)