A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Moore, John James
MOORE. (Lieut., 1809. f-p., 12; h-p., 32.)
John James Moore entered the Navy, 7 Nov. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Culloden 74, Capt. Barrington Dacres, bearing the flag in the Channel of Rear-Admiral Collingwood; and from July, 1804, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 7 Nov. 1809, was employed on the Jamaica station, chiefly as Midshipman, in the Theseus and Hercule 74’s, and Veteran 64, flag-ships of Rear-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres, Argo 44, Capt. Stephen Thos. Digby, and Polyphemus 64, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Bartholomew Sam. Rowley; in the boats of which vessel, under Lieut. Chas. Fraser, he assisted, and obtained high praise for his conduct, at the boarding and capture, 9 March, 1809, with a loss to the British of 7 wounded, of the notorious French national felucca Joseph, of 3 guns and 53 men, and defended by a heavy fire of musketry and grape, as well from the vessel herself as from a whole range of batteries on the island of St. Domingo.[1] He then joined the Elk sloop, Capt. Jeremiah Coghlan, also in the West Indies, whence, in 1810, he returned to England on board the Neptune 98, Capt. Volant Vashon Ballard. He next, from March to Dec. 1811, served off the coast of France in the Pompée 80, Capt. Sir Jas. Athol Wood; and while attached, between Jan. 1812 and Oct. 1815, to the Iphigenia 36, Capts. Lucius Curtis, Hon. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, and Andw. King, he made a voyage to St. Helena, assisted at the reduction of Genoa in 1814, and visited the shores of North America. Since the date last mentioned he has been on half-pay. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1809, p. 787.