Graham Moore (Royal Navy officer)
Admiral Sir Graham Moore was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer he took part in the Great Siege of Gibraltar during the American Revolutionary War. As captain of the frigate Melampus, he took part in the Battle of Tory Island in October 1798, capturing the Résolue two days later, during the French Revolutionary Wars. He went on to be First Naval Lord, then Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet, and finally, Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth. He was the younger brother of General Sir John Moore.
Oil on canvas portrait, c. 1792, by Sir Thomas Lawrence
Battle of Tory island on 12 October 1798 by Nicholas Pocock; Moore took part in the action
Sir Graham Moore's action off Cape St. Mary, 5 October 1804
Tomb of Sir Graham Moore at St. Andrew's Church, Cobham, Surrey
HMS Melampus was a Royal Navy fifth-rate frigate that served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. She captured numerous prizes before the British sold her to the Royal Netherlands Navy in 1815. With the Dutch, she participated in a major action at Algiers and, then, in a number of colonial punitive expeditions in the Dutch East Indies.
Detail from the painting by Bristol artist Chris Woodhouse of the 36-gun Bristol-built frigate HMS Melampus, commissioned and purchased in 1990 by Bristol City Museum
Melampus at the Battle of Tory Island, 12 October 1798
Melampus flag flown at Algiers
The Bombardment of Algiers, 27 August 1816, painting by George Chambers Sr.
