A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Moore, John (c)
MOORE. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 1 1; h-p., 32.)
John Moore entered the Navy 7 Nov. 1804, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the Matilda, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Dorsett Birchall, bearing the flag of Hon. Henry Edwin Stanhope in the Thames; where, in Sept. 1806, on his return from a visit made to the Mediterranean as Midshipman of the Serapis, Master-Commander Wm. Lloyd, he joined the Magnificent 74, Capt. Geo. Eyre. After a servitude of two years and eight months on the Baltic, Lisbon, South American, and Channel stations, in the Solebay 32, Capts. Robt. Howe Bromley, Thos. Brown, and Edw. Henry Columbine, he was received, in Sept. 1809, on board the Orpheus 32, Capts. Pat. Tonyn, Robt. Preston, and Hugh Pigot, attached to the force in the West Indies, whence, in 1812, he came home as Master’s Mate of the Gloire frigate, Capt. Jas. Carthew. Joining then the Seahorse 38, Capt. Jas. Alex. Gordon, he ultimately, after cruizing in the Channel, proceeded to North America, and in Aug. 1814 accompanied the brilliant expedition up the Potomac, where he witnessed the capture of Fort Washington and the surrender of Alexandria. For his services during the operations connected therewith he obtained the official eulogiums of his Captain, and was in consequence promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 19 Oct. in the same year. He was afterwards, we believe, present in the attack upon New Orleans. He has been on half-pay since 1815. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.