Auction: 9022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 120
x Naval General Service 1793-1840, two clasps, Off Tamatave 20 May 1811, Java (Henry Rice, Lieut. R.N.), lacquered, minor edge nicks, good very fine Estimate £ 4,000-4,500 Henry Rice served as Lieutenant in H.M.S. Phoebe as part of Rear Admiral Stopford´´s squadron that engaged three French 40-gun frigates (Renommee, Clorinde and Nereide) off the east coast of Madagascar, May 1811; Rice served as the same appointment in the same ship during the assistance given by the Navy in the capture of the island of Java from July until the surrender, 18th September 1811. Commander Henry Rice, born 1787; joined the Royal Navy as Able Seaman, July 1802, and served aboard the Royal Charlotte yacht (Captain Sir Harry Burrard Neale), stationed off Weymouth; in September 1803, after 8 months employment in a merchantman on a voyage to the Mediterranean, Rice re-embarked as Midshipman in H.M.S. Repulse (Captain the Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge), with whom he fought in Sir Robert Calder´´s action, the battle of Cape Finisterre, when fifteen British ships engaged a Franco-Spanish force of twenty ships, 22.7.1805; appointed Lieutenant H.M.S. Phoebe, November 1808, and he assisted in the latter at the reduction of the Isle of France, December 1810; present in the action off Tamatave, when the Phoebe lost seven men killed and twenty-four wounded; on returning from escorting a convoy to Quebec Rice was invalided, July 1812; later service included in H.M.S.´´s Vengeur, Alban and Phoebe once again; retired Commander 1846. Provenance: Payne Collection 1911 Glendining June 1954 J.B. Hayward June 1975
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£7,500
