A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Moore, William
MOORE. (Lieutenant, 1814. f-p., 11; h-p., 31.)
William Moore was born 13 Oct. 1792. This officer entered the Navy, 25 April, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Isis 50, Capts. John Acworth Oramanney, Wm. Cuming, and John Laugharne, successive flag-ship at Newfoundland of Vice-Admirals Sir Erasmus Gower and John Holloway. In Dec. 1807, upwards of 18 months after he had attained the rating of Midshipman, he removed to the Confiance 22, commanded by the late Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo, in which vessel he first visited Lisbon, and then proceeded to the coast of Brazil. At the reduction of Cayenne, in Jan. 1809, he was intrusted with the charge of a gun-boat, and for his services was presented, in common with the other Midshipmen of the Confiance, with a sword and medal by the Prince Regent of Portugal. Being paid off in the early part of 1810, he next, in Oct. of that year, joined the Salvador del Mundo, bearing the flag of Sir Robt. Calder at Plymouth, and very soon afterwards the Sceptre 74, Capt. Sam. Jas. Ballard, employed off Brest. Transferred by Admiralty order, at the commencement of 1811, to the Southampton, of 38 guns and 212 men, commanded by his former Captain, Yeo, he sailed forthwith for the Jamaica station, and, on 3 Feb. 1812, assisted at the capture of the Haytian frigate Amethyste, of 44 guns and 700 men, at the close of a sharp conflict, in which the enemy sustained a loss of 105 men killed and 120 wounded, and the British of only 1 man killed and 10, including himself, wounded. On 23 of the same month Mr. Moore passed his examination. In the following Aug. an attack of yellow fever rendered it necessary for him to be sent to the hospital at Port Royal, on being discharged from which he was successively placed, as a Supernumerary, on board the Garland 20, Capt. Rich. Plummer Davies, and Shark sloop, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Chas. Stirling. He returned home with Capt. Yeo, in Feb. 1813, in the Brazen 18, Capt. Jas. Stirling, but, from the state of his health, was not able to seek further employment until the ensuing Aug., about which period he became attached, as Supernumerary-Mate, on promotion, to the Medway 74, and Prince 98, flagships of Sir Rich. Bickerton at Spithead. Proceeding in a few weeks to the Cape of Good Hope in the Laurel 38, Capt. Hon. Granville Leveson Proby, he there, in the month of Dec, rejoined the Medway, of which ship, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Tyler, he was created a Lieutenant 12 July, 1814. He returned to England and was paid off in April, 1816; and was lastly, from 23 Oct. 1817 until Sept. 1818, employed on the coast of Africa in the Semiramis 42, bearing the broad pendant of his friend. Sir J. L. Yeo, at whose request he had obtained the appointment.