Admiral Bartholomew Samuel Rowley (10 June 1764 – 7 October 1811[1]) was a British naval officer who served during the American, French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

[6] She proved to be the former HMS Unicorn, which had been captured on 4 September 1780 by a French frigate and two ships of the line off Tortuga.

[5] However, with the end of the American Revolutionary War in September 1783, Rowley found himself, like many other naval officers, unemployed on half-pay for nearly a decade.

[9] In late 1793 Ford took advantage of the Haitian Revolution to occupy several ports in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti).

[10] On 2 January 1794, Ford sent Penelope into Port-au-Prince under a flag of truce where Rowley demanded the surrender of the island from the French Civil Commissioner Léger-Félicité Sonthonax.

[11] After the capture of Port-au-Prince on 4 June 1794, Rowley and Lieutenant-Colonel John Whitelocke were sent back to England with dispatches aboard the sloop Fly.