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158<br />

Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Algiers<br />

(Joseph Smithson.), minor edge nicks, otherwise nearly<br />

extremely fine<br />

£800-1,200<br />

Joseph Smithson served as Able Seaman in H.M.S. Superb<br />

when the combined English <strong>and</strong> Dutch fleets attacked the<br />

heavily fortified town of Algiers, 27.8.1816. British casualties<br />

amounted to 128 killed, 690 wounded; the Dutch suffered<br />

13 killed <strong>and</strong> 52 wounded. The Granicus, Glasgow,<br />

Impregnable, Le<strong>and</strong>er, <strong>and</strong> Superb, had their masts <strong>and</strong> yards<br />

greatly damaged.<br />

<strong>orders</strong>, deCoratioNs, CampaigN medaLs aNd miLitaria<br />

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159<br />

Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Algiers<br />

(Geo. Selby.), minor edge nicks, otherwise extremely<br />

fine<br />

£700-900<br />

George Selby served as Ordinary Seaman in H.M.S. Hebrus<br />

when the combined English <strong>and</strong> Dutch fleets attacked the<br />

heavily fortified town of Algiers, 27.8.1916. British casualties<br />

amounted to 128 killed <strong>and</strong> 690 wounded; the Dutch<br />

suffered 13 killed <strong>and</strong> 52 wounded. One other man with this<br />

name appears on the Admiralty Claimants List, for a single<br />

clasp award for Royalist May & June 1810 (one of only three<br />

recipients of this clasp).<br />

PROVENANCE:<br />

J.B. Hayward, December 1970<br />

<strong>Spink</strong> Numismatic Circular, February 1974

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