Robert Brooke Dashiell (July 29, 1860 – March 8, 1899) was an officer in the United States Navy noted for his naval ordnance technical expertise.

[2][4] First assigned to the naval ordnance department,[5] he was transferred in 1885 to the USS Pensacola,[6] under the command of then-Captain George Dewey.

[13] An inventor of important ordnance mechanisms and an authority on dock construction, he was commissioned Assistant Naval Constructor on February 7, 1895.

[17] Another daughter, Nancy, married future Navy vice admiral Thomas Leigh Gatch in June 1917.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.