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Auction: 9022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 101

x Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Off Mardoe 6 July 1812 (Benjn. Dutton.), light contact marks to obverse, therefore very fine Estimate £ 2,500-3,000 Benjamin Dutton served as Lieutenant in H.M.S. Dictator for the action with a Danish squadron, which included the destruction of the 40 gun frigate Nayaden by H.M. Ships Dictator, the brigs Calypso and Podargus and the gun-brig Flamer, off Mardoe, on the Coast of Norway, 6.7.1812. Approximately 47 clasps claimed for this action. Commander Benjamin Dutton (1783-1853), born Sussex; joined the Royal Navy as Able Seaman, October 1799, and was posted to H.M.S. Anacreon (Lieutenant-Commander J. Guyon); appointed Midshipman of the same vessel the following year, ´´and in action with a French brig and cutter-of-war off St. Valery´´ (O´´Byrne refers); served in the gun-brigs Charger and Aggressor on the Home and Baltic Stations, October 1802-August 1808; appointed Acting Sub-Lieutenant of the gun-brig Brevdrageren, August 1808, before being appointed in the same rank to H.M.S Centinel the following month; appointed Acting-Lieutenant H.M.S. Dictator (Captains R. Williams and J.P. Stewart), August 1811; confirmed to that ship by commission, November of the same year, and in that capacity, ´´was subsequently, on 6 July 1812, present, in company with the Calypso, Podargus and Flamer gun-brig, at the gallant capture and destruction within the rocks off Mardoe, on the coast of Norway, of an entire squadron, consisting of the Nayaden of 48 guns, the Laland, Samsoe, and Kiel sloops, and several gun-boats, after a long conflict which occasioned the Dictator a loss of 5 men killed and 24 wounded, and the Danes of 300 killed and wounded.´´ (Ibid); Dutton´´s last appointment was H.M.S. Urgent, October 1813, a position he held until May 1814, when ´´Ill health obliged me to leave Urgent´´; retired Commander April 1853. Provenance: Glendining June 1902

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