A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Finemore, John
FINEMORE. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 29; h-p., 14.)
John Finemore was born 19 Aug. 1789. This officer entered the Navy, 1 Jan. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Minotaur 74, Capt. Chas. John Moore Mansfield, flag-ship afterwards of Admirals John Child Purvis and Sir Chas. Cotton, in which he served at the battle of Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805, and attended, as Midshipman, the expedition to Copenhagen in Aug. 1807. From Jan. 1808, until May, 1814, he was employed on board the Hibernia 110, San Josef 110, and Queen Charlotte 100, flag-ships in the Mediterranean and Channel of Sir C. Cotton, Rear-Admiral Fras. Pickmore, and Lord Keith. During that period he witnessed the surrender, when on board the Hibernia, of the Russian squadron in the Tagus, in Aug. 1808, and was much engaged in blockading the enemy’s ports. On leaving the Queen Charlotte, Mr. Finemore escorted a body of troops to Canada as Acting-Lieutenant of the Centaur 74, Capt. John Chambers White. He was eventually confirmed to the Philomel 18, Capt. Jas. Hanway Plumridge, 17 Feb. 1815, from which sloop, on his return from a visit to the East Indies, he was paid off 9 Dec. 1816. His appointments have since been – 3 Nov. 1825, to the Coast Blockade, in which service, with the interruption of a year and nine months in 1826-7, he continued, as Supernumerary-Licutenant of the Hyperion 42, and Ramillies and Talavera 74’s, Capts. Wm. Jas. Mingaye and Hugh Pigot, until Dec. 1830 – and 26 Aug. 1834, to the command of a station in the Coast Guard, a post he still holds.
He is married, and has issue. Agents – Messrs. Chard.