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About Constantine Richard Moorsom
Vice-Admiral Constantine Richard Moorsom was a vice-admiral in the Royal Navy. He commanded HMS Fury a Hecla-class bomb vessel which saw wartime service in the Bombardment of Algiers, an attack on Barbary pirates at Algiers in HMS Fury in August, 1816. Moorsom was the son of Admiral Sir Robert Moorsom, a veteran of Trafalgar. Moorsom was on the roster of HMS Revenge, his father's ship, when it was at the Battle of Trafalgar. However records show that Constantine was actually at school at the time of the battle. Moorsom rose to be chairman of the London & North Western Railway.
Everything about Constantine Richard Moorsom →- Occupation
- naval officer, abolitionist
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- September 22, 1792
- Died
- May 26, 1861