Gilbert Howland Roberts CBE (11 October 1900 – 22 January 1986) was an officer in the Royal Navy.

This unit developed anti-submarine tactics to defend trans-Atlantic merchant convoys from German submarines.

[3] Roberts joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in September 1913, a month shy of his thirteenth birthday.

In December, the Fearless joined a flotilla to patrol the Spanish coast (during Spain's civil war).

[2][4] Roberts convalesced at the King Edward VII Sanatorium in Midhurst until April 1939.

[2] On 1 January 1942 Roberts met with Admiral Cecil Usborne in London.

This organisation developed tactics by which shipping convoys in the Atlantic could defend themselves from German submarine attacks.