Presentation sword, which belonged to Captain the Honourable Robert Gore (1810-1854). The hilt of the sword consists of a dull gilt, solid half-basket guard with raised bars and a crown and anchor badge. There is a folding flap on the inside of guard. The sword has a lion's-head pommel and back-piece, the mane extending one third of the length of the back-piece. The white fish-skin grip is bound with three gilt wires, and there is a small eye at the base of the grip and another on the guard near the lions' mouth to accommodate a sword knot. The sword comes complete with a sword knot made of blue and gold rope with a vellum basketwork head and twelve gold bullions.

The slightly curved, pipe-backed steel blade has a double-edged spear point. The blade is engraved with the words 'Presented by the Merchants & Underwriters of Bombay to Lieut. Honble. Robert Gore, RN of HMS Andromache, To record their Estimation of his Services in the Operations against the Pirates in the Malacca Straits under the Command of Captn H D Chads CB 1836' and below this contained within scrolls are the words 'Bombay, 15th July 1837'. The scabbard is made of polished black material, which is either fine buckram or lizard skin. The scabbard has two gilt lockets and rings made in the grummet pattern and a gilt chape with a shoe. The lockets and chape are embossed with a floral pattern. The back edge of the top locket bears the words 'Dudley. Portsmth'.

Honourable Captain Robert Gore (1810-1854) was the fourth son of the Honourable Colonel William J. Gore by Caroline, the youngest daughter, and co-heir of Sir Thomas Pym-Hale and the grandson of the 2nd Earl of Arran. He entered the Royal Navy on 4 September 1823 and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 18 June 1832. He was in HMS 'Melville' between 1832-1834 and HMS 'Andromache' under Admiral Sir Henry Ducie Chads (1788-1868) then Captain Henry Ducie Chads on the East India Station between 1835-1838. His services here while engaged in action with the Malay pirates, in conjunction with the vessels mentioned above earned him this presentation sword. The sword was given to him by grateful merchants and underwriters. He was promoted to the rank of Commander on 9 May 1839, commanding the 'Serpent' on the West India Station, and attaining Post rank on 9 November 1846. He later became MP for New Ross, Co. Wexford and sometime British charge d'affaires in Uruguay. He died on 4 August 1854.