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GORE—GOSLIN.
GORE. (Retired Commander, 1835. f-p., 23; h-p., 29.)
Ralph Gore, born 15 May, 1781, is son of the Hon. Paul Gore, of Wexford (brother of the second Earl of Arran, K.P.), by Anne, daughter of Wm. Leonard, Esq.; uncle of Lieut.-Colonel Arthur Gore; and first-cousin of Commander Hon. Edw. Gore, R.N.
This officer entered the Nayy, 15 May, 1795, as Fst.-cl. Boy, on board the Melampus of 42 guns and 267 men, Capts. Sir Rich. John Strachan and Graham Moore; under the former of whom, when off St. Maloes, in company with the Hebe 38, he assisted at the capture, 3 July following, of six out of 13 French vessels, laden with military stores, and convoyed by a ship of 26 guns, and also by two armed brigs, one of which., La Vésuve, was likewise taken. While employed under Capt. Moore, we find him contributing to the further capture of the French national ships Etonnant of 18 guns, Etna of 20 guns, Volage of 22 guns and 195 men, and Résolue of 40 guns and 500 men, including troops. The latter frigate was taken on 14 Oct. 179S, and was one of a squadron of ships that had been previously defeated under Commodore Bompart during an action in which the Melampus had had but 1 man wounded. After leaving the latter vessel, Mr. Gore joined a 50-gun ship, whose name has escaped us, and was for some time employed, as Master’s Mate, in the conveyance of Russian troops from Revel to Holland. Removing, in 1800, to the Cerberus 32, Capt. Jas. Macnamara, he served, dunng the remainder of the war, in that ship on the Jamaica station, where, on 14 April, 1802, he was engaged in the capture of a pirate. He was confirmed a Lieutenant, 15 Oct. following (after having acted for nearly three months as such), in the Shark sloop, Capt. J. B. Heron; and was subsequently appointed – in 1803, for a short time, to the Bellerophon 74, Commodore John Loring, under whom he witnessed the surrender of Cape François, St. Domingo – 6 Dec. 1804, to the Proselyte 24, Capt. Geo. Sayer, also on the West India station, whence he returned home, as First of L’Alexandre ship of the line – 21 Nov. 1806, as Senior, to the Décade 38, Capt. Stewart, in the Channel – in 1809 to the Sea Fencibles – in 1812, after two years of half-pay, to the Deptford tender, which he commanded, on Impress service, until Aug. 1816 – and, in 1820, to the Coast Guard. He left the latter service in 1826, and accepted his present rank 15 April, 1835.
Commander Gore appears to have been employed for some time previously to Dec. 1841 in the Royal Hospital at Chelsea. He married, 4 Feb. 1809, Frances, daughter of Major Alex. Hay, Esq., of Dublin, and has issue two sons. Agents – Case and Loudonsack.
GORE. (Lieutenant, 1824.)
Ralph Gore (b) entered the Navy 26 Sept. 1808; obtained his commission 15 May, 1824; and was employed, from 27 May, 1830, until paid off, 23 March, 1832, in the Ganges 84, Capts. Edw. Stirling Dickson and Geo. Burdett, on the Mediterranean station. He does not appear to have been since afloat. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
GORE, M.P. (Captain, 1846.)
The Honourable Robert Gore, born in 1810, is fourth son of Colonel Hon. Wm. John Gore, by Caroline, youngest daughter and co-heir of the late Sir Thos. Pym Hales, Bart.; brother of the present Earl of Arran, also of Capt. Hon. Wm. John Pym Gore, and of Hon. Chas. Alex. Gore, Commissioner of Woods and Forests; and uncle of Commander Hon. Edw. Gore, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 4 Sept. 1823; passed his examination in 1829; and obtained his first commission 13 June, 1832. His appointments, as Lieutenant, were – 25 Nov. 1832, to the Melville 74, Capt. Henry Hart, on the East India station – 1 Dec. 1834, to the Andromache 28, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads, in the boats of which frigate he was frequently engaged in action with the Malay pirates – and, 5 Feb. 1838, to the command, in North America and the West Indies, of the Charybdis 3. Ascending the next step in his profession 9 May, 1839, Capt. Gore was immediately appointed to the Serpent 16, also on the North America and West India station, where he served the time required to qualify him for the receipt of Post-rank, to which he was advanced 9 Nov. 1846. He is at present on half-pay.
Capt. Gore is M.P. for New Ross, co. Wexford. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
GORE. (Commander, 1821. f-p., 16; h-p., 26.)
Robert Gore entered the Royal Naval College in April, 1805; and embarked, in Dec. 1808, as Midshipman, on board the Warspite 74, Capt. Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood, with whom he served, until March, 1813, on the Home and Mediterranean stations. After a further attachment to the Defiance and Vigo 74’s, flag-ships in the Baltic of Sir Geo. Hope and Sir Graham Moore, he was there confirmed a Lieutenant, 6 Dec. 1813, in the Orion 74, Capt. Sir Arch. Collingwood Dickson. He subsequently joined – 26 Jan. 1814, the Horatio 38, Capt. Wm. Henry Dillon, successively employed, until paid off in Jan. 1817, in escorting convoy to Newfoundland, protecting the whale-fishery at Greenland against the Americans, cruizing off the coast of France for the interception of Buonaparte after the battle of Waterloo, and in a voyage to China April, 1818, to the Scout 18, Capt. Wm. Kamsden, on the Mediterranean station – and, 6 Aug. 1819, to the Leander 60, flag-ship in the East Indies of Hon. Sir H. Blackwood. He was promoted on that station to the command, 23 July, 1821, of the Satellite 18. He ultimately invalided home, and has since been on half-pay.
GOSLIN. (Lieut., 1827. f-p., 30; h-p., 9.)
William Henry Goslin is of Norman extraction, and immediately descends from Wm. Goslin (or Gosselin), an officer of rank in the army of Cromwell, from whom he obtained a large tract of land in co. Kilkenny.
This officer entered the Navy, 6 Nov. 1808, as. Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ville de Paris 110, Capt. John Surman Carden, in the boats of which, ship he assisted at the embarkation of the army after the battle of Corunna. He subsequently removed for a short time with Capt. Carden to the Ocean 98, and was next employed as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, until the general peace of 1815, in the Weasel 18, Capt. Henry Prescott, Frederickstein 32, Capt. Fras. Beaufort, Fylla 22, and Eridanus 36, both commanded by Capt. H. Prescott, Resolute 10, Capt. J. Green, Orestes 18, Capt. Wm. Rich. Smith, and Aggressor 12, Lieut.-Commander Jas. Morgan, on the Mediterranean and Home stations. He assisted during that period, while in the Weasel, at the capture, besides other armed vessels, of L’Eole privateer, pierced for 20 guns, but mounting only 14, with a complement of 140 men, which surrendered, on 25 Dec. 1809, after a gallant resistance of one hour and thirty minutes, a loss to herself of 5 men killed and 9 wounded, and to her antagonist of only 1 man killed and another wounded. He was also constantly engaged in the same sloop with the French batteries and flotilla on the Calabrian shore during Murat’s meditated invasion of Sicily; and, when with Capt. Beaufort in the Frederickstein, he assisted in the survey of the coast of Karamania, and contributed in the boats to the capture and destruction of a Greek pirate, carrying 1 gun and 40 men, who landed and defended themselves on a barren island in the Archipelago. Between Oct. 1815 and the date of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant 28 April, 1827, Mr. Goslin served, as Admiralty-Midshipman, Second-Master, and Mate, on the Irish, Newfoundland, Channel, East India, and Portsmouth stations, in the Picton 12 Lieut.-
