A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Shore, Samuel Sparshott
SHORE. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
Samuel Sparshott Shore passed his examination 16 June, 1835; and for his services in China as Mate of the Thalia 42, Capt. Chas. Hope, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 23 Dec. 1842.[1] His next appointments were – 20 Oct. 1843, as Additional, to the Alfred 50, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore John Brett Purvis on the coast of Brazil – 2 Aug. 1844, to the Racer 16, Capt. Arch. Reed, on the coast of Africa – 8 Sept. 1846, again as Additional, to the Devastation steam-sloop. Commodore Sir Chas. Hotham, on the same station – and 30 Sept. 1846, for a few months, to the Coast Guard.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1843, p. 2950.