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Auction: 14001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 491

Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Gut of Gibraltar 12 July 1801 (Wm. Gilbert.), backstrap of clasp slightly distorted, edge bruise and traces of lacquer, otherwise good very fine

William Gilbert served as Ordinary Seaman in the 80-gun H.M.S. Caesar, the flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir James Saumarez, as part of the successful attack upon the Franco-Spanish squadrons under the enemy batteries in Algeçiras Bay, 12.7.1801, which resulted in the destruction of the Spanish three-decker, 112-gun Real Carlos and San Hermenegildo, together with the French 74-gun St. Antione; one other man of this name appears on the Admiralty Claimants' List for a single clasp award for Syria.

Provenance: Glendining, February 1980
Sotheby, October 1983.

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