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Sir John Moore, named for General Sir John Moore, was laid down on 13 January 1915 at Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company's shipyard in Greenock. The ship was launched on 31 May and commissioned on 22 July. [4] Following the armistice in November 1918, Sir John Moore briefly served as a tender for the gunnery school. She was placed in ...
HMS Prince Rupert: 2 × 12 in (30 cm) 6,150 long tons (6,250 t) 2 × shafts reciprocating steam engines 2 × boilers 12 January 1915 May 1915 Sold for scrap 1923 HMS Sir John Moore: 2 × 12 in (30 cm) 6,150 long tons (6,250 t) 2 × shafts reciprocating steam engines 2 × boilers 13 January 1915 May 1915 Sold for scrap 1921 HMS General Wolfe
John Moore was born in Glasgow, the son of John Moore, a doctor and writer, and the older brother of Admiral Sir Graham Moore.He attended Glasgow High School, but at the age of 11 joined his father and Douglas, the young 16-year-old 8th Duke of Hamilton (1756–1799), his father's pupil, on a grand tour of France, Italy and Germany.
Bacon also proposed an operation on 18 December, which combined Tyrwhitt's landing on the mole with a blocking operation. A monitor, HMS Sir John Moore, was to land 1,000 troops on the mole, the monitor HMS General Craufurd was to bombard the lock gates and fortifications from short range; the blockships were to enter the harbour in the confusion.
Brind served in the First World War on the gunboat HMS Excellent, followed by HMS Malaya, and finally on the monitor HMS Sir John Moore. [1]After the war, Brind was captain of HMS Orion and then of HMS Birmingham.
John's mother, Catherine, was the daughter of Sir Thomas Knatchbull, baronet, and was also the widow of Sir George Rooke. [1] Moore was initially educated at the Whitchurch grammar school, Shropshire but by age 11 he appears on the books of HMS Lion for her voyage to the West Indies in 1729. [ 1 ]
HMS Sir John Moore (1915) HMS Sir Thomas Picton (1915) This page was last edited on 6 March 2013, at 04:53 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Portrait of Sir John Moore by Thomas Lawrence.Moore commanded the British forces at Corunna. In early October 1808, following the scandal in Britain over the Convention of Sintra and the recall of the generals Dalrymple, Burrard and Wellesley, Sir John Moore took command of the 30,000-man British force in Portugal. [14]