Gore joined the Royal Navy in August 1781, as a captain's servant, and would have served as a midshipman, before gaining promotion to lieutenant on 26 November 1789 and
commander on 24 May 1794. The Royal Navy had just captured the French corvette
Flèche at the capture of Bastia, in which Gore had played a significant role and had been injured. The British took the corvette into service as HMS
Fleche and commissioned her under Gore. He fitted her out and sailed her to Malta where he negotiated with the
Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc for seamen, supplies, and the like. On 13 September Gore was a witness at the trial of Lieutenant William Walker, commander of the
hired armed cutter Rose, on charges that Walker had accepted money from merchants at Bastia to convoy their vessels to
Leghorn, where the court martial took place. Walker was acquitted. Gore received promotion to
post captain on 14 November 1794. When in command of , he took part in the successful
Action of 16 October 1799, in which two Spanish frigates were captured and more than 2 million silver dollars taken. While commanding the 32-gun frigate , he took part in the
action of 5 October 1804. Promoted to rear-admiral on 4 December 1813, he became
Commander-in-Chief, The Nore, from 1818 to 1821. Promoted to
vice-admiral on 27 May 1825, he served as
Commander-in-Chief, East Indies and China Station, from 1831 to 1834. == Personal life ==