Rochfort Maguire  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. Maguire joined the Royal Navy in 1830. He came to notice when he was wounded in action in 1840 at Sidon whilst serving on HMS "Wasp" under Sir Charles Napier. He was mentioned in despatches and as a result he was promoted to lieutenant on in the Mediterranean. 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. Promoted to captain in 1855, he was given command of , , , and then . 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.