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Auction: 22002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 121

(x) Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Trafalgar (William Lawrence.), good very fine

William Lawrence served as an Ordinary Seaman on board H.M.S. Swiftsure, a 74-gun ship of the line commanded by Captain William Rutherfurd. Swiftsure was a newly-built ship and tenth in Vice-Admiral Collingwood's Lee Column. She suffered comparatively few casualties during the battle (nine killed and eight wounded from a complement of 570), but still played a full and active part in that most famous engagement.
By strange coincidence, there was a Swiftsure in the Franco-Spanish fleet too - she having previously been a Royal Navy vessel captured in 1801.

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Sold for
£7,500

Starting price
£4000