A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gore, Robert (b)
GORE. (Commander, 1821. f-p., 16; h-p., 26.)
Robert Gore entered the Royal Naval College in April, 1805; and embarked, in Dec. 1808, as Midshipman, on board the Warspite 74, Capt. Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood, with whom he served, until March, 1813, on the Home and Mediterranean stations. After a further attachment to the Defiance and Vigo 74’s, flag-ships in the Baltic of Sir Geo. Hope and Sir Graham Moore, he was there confirmed a Lieutenant, 6 Dec. 1813, in the Orion 74, Capt. Sir Arch. Collingwood Dickson. He subsequently joined – 26 Jan. 1814, the Horatio 38, Capt. Wm. Henry Dillon, successively employed, until paid off in Jan. 1817, in escorting convoy to Newfoundland, protecting the whale-fishery at Greenland against the Americans, cruizing off the coast of France for the interception of Buonaparte after the battle of Waterloo, and in a voyage to China April, 1818, to the Scout 18, Capt. Wm. Kamsden, on the Mediterranean station – and, 6 Aug. 1819, to the Leander 60, flag-ship in the East Indies of Hon. Sir H. Blackwood. He was promoted on that station to the command, 23 July, 1821, of the Satellite 18. He ultimately invalided home, and has since been on half-pay.