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November 22, 2012 - LoNdoN<br />

173 174<br />

173<br />

Naval General Service 1793-1840, two clasps, Basque<br />

Roads 1809, St. Sebastian (William Jeram.), minor<br />

edge nicks, good very fine<br />

£3,000-3,500<br />

William Jeram served as Cooper in H.M.S. Beagle during<br />

Lord Cochrane’s successful destruction of a number of<br />

French ships, including four ships of the line, in the Basque<br />

Roads, off St. Nazaire, 11-12.4.1809; Jeram served as the<br />

same rate in the same vessel, when she assisted in the capture<br />

of St. Sebastian when some ship’s boats were employed in the<br />

inner blockade, 8.9.1813.<br />

119<br />

174<br />

Naval General Service 1793-1840, two clasps,<br />

Navarino, Syria (John Brown.), minor edge bruising,<br />

good very fine<br />

£1,000-1,200<br />

John Brown served as Able Seaman in H.M.S. Albion during<br />

the battle of Navarino in which the combined fleets of<br />

Britain, France <strong>and</strong> Russia engaged <strong>and</strong> routed the Turkish<br />

fleet, 20.10.1827; Brown served as the same rate in H.M.S.<br />

Cambridge during operations on <strong>and</strong> off the coast of Syria,<br />

1840; there are several men of the same name listed on the<br />

Admiralty Claimant’s List, however, the medal appears<br />

entirely as issued.<br />

PROVENANCE:<br />

Glendining, March 1923

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