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Auction: 15003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 119

Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Gut of Gibraltar 12 July 1801 (Joseph Haine.), extremely fine

Joseph Haines served as Able Seaman in the 74-gun H.M.S. Hannibal, as part of the successful attack under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir James Saumarez 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.

Able Seaman Joseph Haines, born 1773; enlisted as an out-pensioner, Greenwich Hospital, April 1811.

The only Naval General Service Medal awarded to H.M.S. Hannibal.

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£2,700