Rear Admiral Robert George Pedre (born 8 February 1975) is a senior Royal Navy officer and current Commander United Kingdom Strike Force.

[2] He became commanding officer of the Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel HMS Cottesmore, deployed on counter-terrorist operations in the Irish Sea, in 2003.

[5] Pedre then served as Operations Officer on HMS Northumberland and organised NATO’s first counter-piracy deployment to the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden in 2007.

[2] He then became executive officer on the Type 22 frigate HMS Cumberland, where he was involved in the evacuation of personnel from Benghazi, Libya in 2009.

[7] Ocean served as flagship for Standing NATO Maritime Group 2[8] and took part in Operation RUMAN (humanitarian support to the British Overseas Territories), before being decommissioned in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II on 27 March 2018.