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Rochfort Maguire
Irish Royal Navy commodore
Rochfort Maguire (18 June 1815 – 29 June 1867) was an Irish Royal Navy officer who served as captain of HMS Plover from 1852 to 1853 during the Franklin search expedition.
Rochfort Maguire | |
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Portrait by Stephen Pearce | |
| Commander-in-Chief, Australia Station | |
| In office 23 May 1866 – 28 May 1867 (1866-05-23 – 1867-05-28) | |
| Preceded by | Sir William Wiseman |
| Succeeded by | Rowley Lambert |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1815-06-18)18 June 1815 County Westmeath, Ireland |
| Died | 29 June 1867(1867-06-29) (aged 52) Gosport, Hampshire, England |
| Awards | Arctic Medal, 1818–55 |
| Military service | |
| Branch |  Royal Navy |
| Service years | 1830–1867 |
| Rank | Commodore |
| Conflict | Oriental Crisis of 1840 |
Royal Navy
Maguire joined the Royal Navy in 1830.[1] He came to notice when he was wounded in action in 1840 at Sidon whilst serving on HMS Wasp under Sir Charles Napier.[2] He was mentioned in despatches and as a result he was promoted to lieutenant on HMS Vernon in the Mediterranean.[2]
Search for Franklin
Maguire was assigned to the Franklin search expedition in 1848. They sailed out of Plymouth on a mission to find the lost remains of John Franklin's ill-fated Northwest Passage expedition of 1845. Maguire was made captain of HMS Plover from 1852 to 1854.[1]
Promoted to captain in 1855, he was given command of HMS Sans Pareil, HMS Imperieuse, HMS Chesapeake, and then HMS Galatea.[1]
He became commander-in-chief of Australian Station on 23 May 1866, before he was invalidated out on 28 May 1867. He died a month later, on 29 June, at Royal Hospital Haslar.[1]
- Rochfort Maguire, Spink.com. accessed August 2009
- O'Byrne, William R. (1849). "Maguire, Rochfort" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary. London: John Murray. p. 709.
- Sabine, E. (1857). "On hourly observations of the magnetic declination made by Captain Rochfort Maguire". Philos. Trans. R. Soc. 147: 497–532. JSTOR 108630.
