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Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, Basque Roads, Sep. Boat Service 1810 (Edmund...
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Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, Basque Roads, Sep. Boat Service 1810 (Edmund Pope, Midshipman.) very fine £4,000-£5,000
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Provenance: Hamilton-Smith Collection 1927; Needes Collection 1937; Spink, July 2000.
33 clasps issued for the Boat Service action on 27 September 1810.
The published Naval General Service Medal rolls confirm Edmund Pope as a Midshipman aboard the Valiant for Basque Roads on 11 April 1809 and, although the date ‘27’ does not appear on the clasp and he is not actually shown on the Admiralty rolls for the Boat Service action of 27 September 1810, both verify him as ‘present and entitled’ while employed in the same capacity, thereby making him one of just 34 recipients of this latter clasp.
Edmund Pope entered the Royal Navy in May 1807, passed his examination in 1815 and obtained his Commission as Lieutenant in March 1827. Placed on the half-pay, he was appointed a Commander on the Retired List on 1 July 1864, and was still shown as such in the Navy List for January 1877.
‘On the night of September 27th, the boats of the Caledonia, one hundred-and-twenty, Captain Sir H. Neale, Valiant, seventy-four, Captain R. Oliver; and Armide, thirty-eight, Captain R. Dunn, lying in Basque Roads, were despatched under the orders of First Lieutenant Hamilton of the Caledonia, to take or destroy three brigs laden with Government stores, anchored under the protection of a strong battery at Pointe du Ché. As it was known that the enemy had strengthened the position with field pieces, and that a strong body of troops was assembled for the protection of the vessels, a party of one hundred and thirty marines, commanded by Captains T. Sherman and McLachlan, with Lieutenant Little, was added to the seamen from the three ships.
At half-past two the marines were landed under Pointe du Ché, but the alarm was given by the brigs, and under a smart fire Lieutenant Little advanced, captured the battery and spiked the guns. In the meantime Captain Sherman took position on the main road, facing the village of Angoulin, supported by one of the launches with an eighteen-pounder carronade. The enemy advanced from the village and attacked him, but were driven back with loss. The French then made another attempt with a field piece, but were charged with the bayonet, put to flight, and the gun taken.
While this was going on, the seamen had captured two of the brigs, and destroyed the other, and the party re-embarked without losing a man. Lieutenant Little and one man were wounded. The enemy left fourteen dead in the battery, but what loss they sustained from the fire of Captain Sherman's division and the launch could not be ascertained.’ (Medals of the British Navy by W. H. Long refers).
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Importation Duty
This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK
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Provenance: Hamilton-Smith Collection 1927; Needes Collection 1937; Spink, July 2000.
33 clasps issued for the Boat Service action on 27 September 1810.
The published Naval General Service Medal rolls confirm Edmund Pope as a Midshipman aboard the Valiant for Basque Roads on 11 April 1809 and, although the date ‘27’ does not appear on the clasp and he is not actually shown on the Admiralty rolls for the Boat Service action of 27 September 1810, both verify him as ‘present and entitled’ while employed in the same capacity, thereby making him one of just 34 recipients of this latter clasp.
Edmund Pope entered the Royal Navy in May 1807, passed his examination in 1815 and obtained his Commission as Lieutenant in March 1827. Placed on the half-pay, he was appointed a Commander on the Retired List on 1 July 1864, and was still shown as such in the Navy List for January 1877.
‘On the night of September 27th, the boats of the Caledonia, one hundred-and-twenty, Captain Sir H. Neale, Valiant, seventy-four, Captain R. Oliver; and Armide, thirty-eight, Captain R. Dunn, lying in Basque Roads, were despatched under the orders of First Lieutenant Hamilton of the Caledonia, to take or destroy three brigs laden with Government stores, anchored under the protection of a strong battery at Pointe du Ché. As it was known that the enemy had strengthened the position with field pieces, and that a strong body of troops was assembled for the protection of the vessels, a party of one hundred and thirty marines, commanded by Captains T. Sherman and McLachlan, with Lieutenant Little, was added to the seamen from the three ships.
At half-past two the marines were landed under Pointe du Ché, but the alarm was given by the brigs, and under a smart fire Lieutenant Little advanced, captured the battery and spiked the guns. In the meantime Captain Sherman took position on the main road, facing the village of Angoulin, supported by one of the launches with an eighteen-pounder carronade. The enemy advanced from the village and attacked him, but were driven back with loss. The French then made another attempt with a field piece, but were charged with the bayonet, put to flight, and the gun taken.
While this was going on, the seamen had captured two of the brigs, and destroyed the other, and the party re-embarked without losing a man. Lieutenant Little and one man were wounded. The enemy left fourteen dead in the battery, but what loss they sustained from the fire of Captain Sherman's division and the launch could not be ascertained.’ (Medals of the British Navy by W. H. Long refers).
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Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, Basque Roads, Sep. Boat Service 1810 (Edmund Pope, Midshipman.) very fine £4,000-£5,000
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This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK
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Provenance: Hamilton-Smith Collection 1927; Needes Collection 1937; Spink, July 2000.
33 clasps issued for the Boat Service action on 27 September 1810.
The published Naval General Service Medal rolls confirm Edmund Pope as a Midshipman aboard the Valiant for Basque Roads on 11 April 1809 and, although the date ‘27’ does not appear on the clasp and he is not actually shown on the Admiralty rolls for the Boat Service action of 27 September 1810, both verify him as ‘present and entitled’ while employed in the same capacity, thereby making him one of just 34 recipients of this latter clasp.
Edmund Pope entered the Royal Navy in May 1807, passed his examination in 1815 and obtained his Commission as Lieutenant in March 1827. Placed on the half-pay, he was appointed a Commander on the Retired List on 1 July 1864, and was still shown as such in the Navy List for January 1877.
‘On the night of September 27th, the boats of the Caledonia, one hundred-and-twenty, Captain Sir H. Neale, Valiant, seventy-four, Captain R. Oliver; and Armide, thirty-eight, Captain R. Dunn, lying in Basque Roads, were despatched under the orders of First Lieutenant Hamilton of the Caledonia, to take or destroy three brigs laden with Government stores, anchored under the protection of a strong battery at Pointe du Ché. As it was known that the enemy had strengthened the position with field pieces, and that a strong body of troops was assembled for the protection of the vessels, a party of one hundred and thirty marines, commanded by Captains T. Sherman and McLachlan, with Lieutenant Little, was added to the seamen from the three ships.
At half-past two the marines were landed under Pointe du Ché, but the alarm was given by the brigs, and under a smart fire Lieutenant Little advanced, captured the battery and spiked the guns. In the meantime Captain Sherman took position on the main road, facing the village of Angoulin, supported by one of the launches with an eighteen-pounder carronade. The enemy advanced from the village and attacked him, but were driven back with loss. The French then made another attempt with a field piece, but were charged with the bayonet, put to flight, and the gun taken.
While this was going on, the seamen had captured two of the brigs, and destroyed the other, and the party re-embarked without losing a man. Lieutenant Little and one man were wounded. The enemy left fourteen dead in the battery, but what loss they sustained from the fire of Captain Sherman's division and the launch could not be ascertained.’ (Medals of the British Navy by W. H. Long refers).
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Importation Duty
This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK
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Provenance: Hamilton-Smith Collection 1927; Needes Collection 1937; Spink, July 2000.
33 clasps issued for the Boat Service action on 27 September 1810.
The published Naval General Service Medal rolls confirm Edmund Pope as a Midshipman aboard the Valiant for Basque Roads on 11 April 1809 and, although the date ‘27’ does not appear on the clasp and he is not actually shown on the Admiralty rolls for the Boat Service action of 27 September 1810, both verify him as ‘present and entitled’ while employed in the same capacity, thereby making him one of just 34 recipients of this latter clasp.
Edmund Pope entered the Royal Navy in May 1807, passed his examination in 1815 and obtained his Commission as Lieutenant in March 1827. Placed on the half-pay, he was appointed a Commander on the Retired List on 1 July 1864, and was still shown as such in the Navy List for January 1877.
‘On the night of September 27th, the boats of the Caledonia, one hundred-and-twenty, Captain Sir H. Neale, Valiant, seventy-four, Captain R. Oliver; and Armide, thirty-eight, Captain R. Dunn, lying in Basque Roads, were despatched under the orders of First Lieutenant Hamilton of the Caledonia, to take or destroy three brigs laden with Government stores, anchored under the protection of a strong battery at Pointe du Ché. As it was known that the enemy had strengthened the position with field pieces, and that a strong body of troops was assembled for the protection of the vessels, a party of one hundred and thirty marines, commanded by Captains T. Sherman and McLachlan, with Lieutenant Little, was added to the seamen from the three ships.
At half-past two the marines were landed under Pointe du Ché, but the alarm was given by the brigs, and under a smart fire Lieutenant Little advanced, captured the battery and spiked the guns. In the meantime Captain Sherman took position on the main road, facing the village of Angoulin, supported by one of the launches with an eighteen-pounder carronade. The enemy advanced from the village and attacked him, but were driven back with loss. The French then made another attempt with a field piece, but were charged with the bayonet, put to flight, and the gun taken.
While this was going on, the seamen had captured two of the brigs, and destroyed the other, and the party re-embarked without losing a man. Lieutenant Little and one man were wounded. The enemy left fourteen dead in the battery, but what loss they sustained from the fire of Captain Sherman's division and the launch could not be ascertained.’ (Medals of the British Navy by W. H. Long refers).
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