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Rh MOORE. 

entered the Navy 23 Nov. 1825; passed his examination in 1833; and obtained his commission 15 March, 1841. His succeeding appointments were – 17 March, 1841, as Additional-Lieutenant, to the 50, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. Durnford King, Commander-in-Chief at the Brazils and Cape of Good Hope – 25 Nov. 1841, to the 20, Capt. Rich. Henry Stopford, on the South American station, whence he returned to England and was paid off in 1844 – and, 11 March, 1845, to the 80, Capt. Fairfax Moresby, with whom he was for about 12 months employed on Home service. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 MOORE. 

entered the Navy, 5 Nov. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 98, Capts. Sir Thos. Williams and Thos. Fras. Fremantle, stationed in the Channel and off Cadiz; and from Dec. 1806 until Jan. 1812 was employed, as Midshipman (a rating he had attained in Dec. 1805) and Master’s Mate, in the 98, Capts. Wm. Lechmere, Geo. Burgoyne Salt, Valentine Collard, and Sam. Hood Linzee (flag-ship for some time of Rear-Admiral Thos. Sotheby), in the Channel, off Rochefort and Lisbon, and in the Baltic. During the next two years and seven months we find him serving on the Home and Brazilian stations, in the 74, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Rich. King, 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Manley Dixon, and  42, Capt. Manley Hall Dixon. He was then, 2 Sept. 1814, appointed to the sloop, Capt. Joseph Patey, in which vessel he continued, still at the Brazils, until July, 1815; at which period he took up a commission bearing date 13 of the preeding March. He has since been on half-pay.

 MOORE. 

entered the Navy, in Jan. 1804, as Midshipman, on board the 14, Lieut.-Commander Rich. Spencer, stationed in the Mediterranean; where, from Oct. 1805 until Oct. 1812, he served, as Acting-Master, in the 16, Lieut.-Commanders Wm. Stewart and Wm. Sandford Oliver, 20, Capt. Geo. Jackson, sloop, Capt. Henry Prescott, and  38 Capt. Murray Maxwell. In the we find him, in 1810, employed in the defence of Sicily against Murat, and in constant action with the enemy’s gun-boats and batteries in the Faro of Messina. When in company, in the, with the 38, he landed, 5 May, 1811, and aided in destroying a French national brig lying in the harbour of Parenza, and defended by a galling cross fire from four batteries. On 29 of the ensuing month it was his fortune to be present in an action of 2 hours and 20 minutes, fought with consummate gallantry, between the and the  38 on one side, and the French 40-gun frigates Pauline and Pomone on the other, and which terminated in the capture of the Pomone and escape of the Pauline, after a loss had been occasioned to the  of 7 men killed and 13 wounded. While engaged, in Feb. 1812, in protecting the island of Lissa, Mr. Moore was sent by Capt. Maxwell with two barges under his orders to the coast of Dalmatia, for the purpose of preventing the enemy from conveying supplies to the governor of Ragusa. In carrying out his instructions he fell in with five armed feluccas, and succeeded in effecting the capture of the whole of them, at the end of a desperate struggle, in which he was most gallantly supported by the present Commanders Chas. Croker and John King. In attempting to board one of the vessels he was very severely wounded by a musket-ball passing through his lungs. For this he was awarded, 29 June, 1816, a pension of 91l. 5s. He left the, as above, in Oct. 1812; and was afterwards employed – from July to Nov. 1813, in the 64, Capt. Edw. Sneyd Clay, at Sheerness – and, from 1 Jan. until 16 Jan. 1814, in the Rodne? 74, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Geo. Martin off Lisbon. He has not been since afloat. His commission bears date 27 June, 1814.

 MOORE. 

is son of the late Admiral Sir Graham Moore, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., by Dora, daughter of Thos. Eden, Esq., of Wimbledon, Deputy-Auditor of Greenwich Hospital, sister of, and niece of William, first Lord Auckland. He is nephew of the gallant Lieut.-General Sir John Moore, who fell at Corunna in Jan. 1809, and of the late Fras. Moore, Esq., Under Secretary at War. He descends from Capt. Chas. Moore, an officer in the army, who served in the wars of William III.

This officer entered the Navy 7 Feb. 1834; passed his examination 10 March, 1841; and, on 22 Sept. following, after serving at Plymouth, as Mate, on board the 120, his father’s flag-ship, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. _ On 30 Oct. in the same year he was nominated Additional-Lieutenant of the 110, fitting at Portsmouth for the flag of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen; and he was next, from 26 July, 1842, until advanced to his present rank 22 Nov. 1843, employed on the Mediterranean station in the 24, Capt. Lord Clarence Edw. Paget. He has had command, since 12 Nov. 1846, of the 12, again in the Mediterranean.

 MOORE. 

entered the Navy, 14 Feb. 1793, as A.B., on board the cutter, Lieut.-Commander Jas. Fegen; removed, in the following April, to the 74, Capts. Chas. Morice Pole and John Monckton, successively employed in the Mediterranean and Channel; served next, from Feb. 1796 to May 1797, in the 74, flagship of Rear-Admiral C. M. Pole; and then became Midshipman (a rating he had attained in the preceding Oct.) of the  of 40 guns, Capt. Henry Jenkins. On 14 Dec. 1798 he was Master’s Mate of that frigate when captured, in the Bay of Biscay, by the French ship Baionnaise of 32 guns, 8 swivels, and at least 250 men, after a severe conflict, in which the British sustained a loss, out of 190 men, of 10 killed and 36 wounded, and the enemy of 30 killed and 30 badly wounded. Being received, in March, 1799, on board the 74, Capts. Herbert Sawyer and Wm. Cuming, he served in that ship in the action off Copenhagen 2 April, 1801, and on 27 and 24 of the ensuing June and July was successively constituted an acting and a