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Captain Moir, of the Trent, 1861. American Civil War. British seaman James Moir was commander of the Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's ship Trent, when two Confederate Commissioners on board were seized by Captain Charles Wilkes of the US Navy ship San Jacinto. 'The earlier part of his seagoing life was spent in the East India service, where ultimately he commanded one of the finest vessels trading between this company and the East Indies. Subsequently he joined the West India mail service as a junior officer, and at the time of the Russian War he was chief officer of the Royal mail steam-packet Orinoco when that vessel was engaged in towing the disabled men-of-war from the thickest of the fight. Soon after the war he was appointed commander of the Royal mail steam-packet Teviot, then to the Conway, and finally to the Trent'. From "Illustrated London News", 1861.