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Auction: 26001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 5

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, 1 June 1794 (George Anderson), good very fine

George Anderson (a unique name upon the Medal Roll) served as an Ordinary Seaman aboard the 74-gun Third-Rate H.M.S. Tremendous at the Battle of the Glorious First of June. Commanded by Captain James Pigott, he had the unfortunate distinction of being denied a Naval Gold Medal due to his lack of aggressiveness: during the battle he kept his ship (in the centre of the British line) too far to windward of the French fleet and didn't fully engage the enemy as intended by Admiral Lord Howe.

Tremendous continued to see much service during her subsequent career: from action in the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, to the South Pacific as late as 1846 (by now a razeed frigate and renamed H.M.S. Grampus); she was over 100 years old when she was finally sold and broken up in 1897.

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Estimate
£1,800 to £2,200

Starting price
£1400