Ships
- USS Russell (DD-414) Captain, 11 December 1943 – 14 December 1943
Frederick Evans Moore was born on 23 July 1904 in Pennsylvania. He belonged to the United States Naval Academy class of 1928 and was commissioned in the United States Navy that year. He became a lieutenant on 25 December 1936. After the United States entered the Second World War he rose to temporary lieutenant commander on 1 January 1942, to lieutenant commander on 30 June 1942, and to temporary commander on 15 September 1942.
On 11 December 1943, Commander Moore took command of the Sims-class destroyer Russell (DD-414). He relieved Warren Howard McClain, who had held the ship since 14 January 1943. On 14 December 1943, Lewis Robinson Miller relieved Moore. Those three days are his tour as captain of Russell.
Russell had been commissioned on 3 November 1939 at Newport News, with James Carter Pollock as her first commanding officer. Glenn Roy Hartwig succeeded Pollock on 12 July 1941 and stayed until January 1943. Through 1940 and 1941 the destroyer worked the neutrality patrol in the western Atlantic and the Caribbean. After Pearl Harbor the Navy sent her to the Pacific. She passed the Panama Canal, stopped at San Diego, and early in January 1942 left the West Coast escorting reinforcements toward Samoa.
Miller kept Russell until 14 August 1944, when John Edward Wicks assumed command. Wicks remained until 15 September 1945. Over the course of the Pacific war the ship earned sixteen battle stars. The fighting ended while she was in overhaul at Seattle. The Navy decommissioned her on 15 November 1945, struck her from the Navy list on 28 November 1945, and sold her for scrap in September 1947.
Moore came to the bridge between McClain’s long tour and Miller’s. He had then been a naval officer for fifteen years and a temporary commander for more than a year. For three days in December 1943 he was captain of Russell, a destroyer already deep in her Pacific service, with nearly two more years of war still ahead of the ship.