Red Rover, the Herne Bay Steam Packet, launched 1835

Who was the Red Rover?
Sir Thomas Charteris, alias Longueville, was a native of France, and of an ancient family in that country.
If credit can be given to accounts of such remote date, when he was at the court of Philip the Fair, in the end of the thirteenth century, he had a dispute with a nobleman, whom he killed in the King's presence.
He escaped, but was refused pardon.
Having for several years infested the seas as a pirate, known by the name of ' the Red Rover,' from the colour of the flag he bore on his ship, in May 1301 or 1302, Sir William Wallace, on his way to France, encountered and took him prisoner.
At Wallace's intercession, the French King conferred a pardon on him and the honour of knighthood.
Since then, many ships ere baptised “Red Rover”

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