Richard Roberts’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Irish sea captain
Was Sea captain 
From Ireland 
Gender male
Birth 1803
Death 1841, sea
(aged 38 years)

Richard Roberts (1803–1841) was an Irish sea captain. He entered the Royal Navy in his youth and served with them until he gained the rank of Lieutenant, and was given command of the SS Sirius. With Roberts at the helm, the Sirius became the first steamship to travel across the Atlantic to America, in April 1838. Shortly afterward, he was transferred to the SS President, which was lost at sea in March 1841. Roberts is presumed to have gone down with the ship. Actor Tyrone Power, great-grandfather of the Hollywood movie star, was also a passenger and perished in the President.

Roberts loved the sea so, that he’s quoted as saying “..I’d go to sea in a bath tub[washing-tub]”.

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