A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Moore, Charles (a)
MOORE. (Commander, 1817.)
Charles Moore (a) entered the Navy, in Jan. 1806, as Midshipman, on board the Eagle 74, commanded by the late Sir Chas. Rowley; and, while in that ship (of which he was created a Lieutenant 26 Jan. 1813), he accompanied the expedition of 1809 to the Walcheren, co-operated in the defence of Cadiz in 1810, assisted at the capture, 27 Nov. 1811, of La Corceyre frigate, carrying 28 guns, together with 170 seamen and 130 soldiery and beheld the fall, in 1813, of Flume, Trieste (where he served on shore, and by his courage and activity elicited the admiration of Rear-Admiral Fremantle[1]), and other places in the Adriatic. Being subsequently nominated Flag-Lieutenant to the above officer, on his assuming the chief command at the Nore, he served in that capacity both in the Namur and Bulwark 74’s. In the spring of 1817 he was lent to the Royal Sovereign yacht, Capt. Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, for the purpose of escorting the King of the French from England to Calais; off which place he so distinguished himself by his heroic intrepidity in a boat in saving the lives of part of the crew of a vessel which had been driven on shore during a strong north-west gale, that he was promoted to the rank of Commander 24 June in the same year. His last appointment was to the Coast Guard, in which service he remained from 18 March, 1834, until 1837.
Commander Moore married, in 1819, at Grantham, co. Lincoln, Elizabeth Anne, second daughter of the late Rich. Palmer, Esq. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1813, p. 2478.