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| Robert John le Mesurier McClure R.N. | Explanation | ||
| 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 | ||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 30 November 1837 | Lieutenant | ||
| 4 November 1849 | Commander | ||
| 18 December 1850 | Captain | ||
| 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 | |
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