Robert Mends

Sir Robert Mends
Born	c. 1767 Pembrokeshire
Died	4 September 1823 HMS Owen Glendower, off the Gold Coast
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	Royal Navy
Years of service	1779–1823
Rank	Royal Navy Captain
Battles/wars	American Revolutionary War Battle of Cape St Vincent Great Siege of Gibraltar Battle of Cape Henry Siege of Yorktown Battle of Dominica French Revolutionary Wars Siege of Toulon Battle of Groix Napoleonic Wars Action of 6 April 1809 Peninsular War
Awards	Spanish Knight of the Order of Charles III

Captain Sir Robert Mends (c. 1767 – 4 September 1823) was a prominent British Royal Navy officer of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, who lost an arm in the American War of Independence, caught in an explosion at the Battle of Groix in 1795 and wounded again at the action of 6 April 1809. In 1815 he was made a Spanish knight for his services in the Peninsular War and was awarded a pension of £300 a year from the British government. He remained in service at the end of the Napoleonic Wars and in 1821 was made commodore on the West African station, on which he died in 1823.