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Auction: 13002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 77

Naval General Service 1793-1840, two clasps, Lissa, Pelagosa 29 Novr. 1811 (John Collins.), very fine

John Collins served as Landsman in H.M.S. Active as part of the British squadron which engaged a Franco-Venetian squadron off the Island of Lissa, in the Adriatic, 13.3.1811. Captain Hoste's squadron captured two enemy frigates, the 40-gun Bellona, the 40-gun Corona and destroyed the 40-gun frigate Favorite. The combined loss to the British squadron amounted to 190 killed and wounded against an enemy loss of about 430. The original British force was approximately 886 seaman and marines against at least 2,500 Franco-Venetian allies with less than half their gun superiority. Four Small Naval Gold Medals were awarded for this action; Collins later served as the same rate in the same vessel when she in company with H.M. Ships Unité and Alceste engaged three French frigates, capturing two, off the Island of Pelagosa in the Adriatic, 29.11.1811.

Approximately 64 'Pelagosa 29 Novr. 1811' clasps issued.

Provenance: Glendining, November 1927
Glendining, March 1985

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