Robert John le Mesurier McClure R.N.
Robert John le Mesurier McClure R.N.
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Robert John le Mesurier McClure R.N. | Explanation |
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Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal |
1807 | | Born (Wexford, Ireland) |
1850 | | Wrote 'The Discovery of the North-West Passage by H.M.S. 'Investigator''. |
May 1859 | | C.B. (Companion of the Bath) |
1869 | | Married Constance Ada, daughter of Richard H. Tudor, of Birkenhead |
17 October 1873 | | Died |
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Date | Rank |
30 November 1837 | Lieutenant |
4 November 1849 | Commander |
18 December 1850 | Captain |
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Date from | Date to | Service |
June 1838 | August 1839 | Lieutenant in Niagara, commanded by Williams Sandom, lakes of Canada |
17 August 1839 | | Lieutenant in Pilot, commanded by George Ramsay, North America and West Indies |
18 June 1842 | 1846 | Lieutenant and commander in Romney, receving ship, Havannah |
December 1846 | | Coast Guard |
18 December 1849 | 14 April 1854 | Commander in Investigator, particular service, exploration of the North-West Passage by sailing east from the Bering Strait, until abandoned in the Prince of Wales Strait (returned home in North Star,William John Samuel Pullen, arriving 28 september 1854) |
1 March 1856 | 26 June 1861 | Captain in Esk (from commissioning until paying off at Portsmouth), East Indies and China (Pacific), where McClure commanded the division of the Naval Brigade before Canton during the 2nd Anglo-Chinese War |