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Auction: 1025 - The Turl Collection of Naval General Service Medals 1793 - 1840
Lot: 15

Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Gut of Gibraltar 12 July 1801 (Thomas Cole.), pawn broker´s mark in obverse field, light scratches, good very fine Estimate £ 2,000-2,500 Thomas Cole served as Ordinary Seaman in H.M.S. Thames as part of the successful attack upon the Franco-Spanish squadrons under the enemy batteries in Algerciras Bay, 12.7.1801. This resulted in the destruction of the Spanish three-decker, 112-gun Real Carlos and San Hermenegildo together with the French 74-gun St. Antione. Provenance: Spink March 1993 and April 2004

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