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Auction: 1025 - The Turl Collection of Naval General Service Medals 1793 - 1840
Lot: 28

Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Nassau 22 March 1808 (James Chapman, Midshipman.), good very fine Estimate £ 5,500-6,500 James Chapman served as Midshipman in H.M.S. Nassau when she and H.M.S. Stately jointly engaged and destroyed the Danish 74-gun ship of the line Prinds Christian Frederick off Grenaa, Coast of Jutland, Denmark, 22.3.1808. The Nassau suffered two men killed, and sixteen men wounded in the action, whilst the Stately lost four men killed, and two officers and twenty-six men wounded. The Prinds Christian Frederick out of a crew of five hundred and seventy-six, had fifty-five men killed, and eighty-eight wounded. Approximately 30 ´Nassau 22 March 1808´ clasps issued for this action. Commander James Chapman, R.N., born 1791; joined the Royal Navy as First Class Volunteer, October 1803, and was appointed to H.M.S. Nassau (Captain R. Campbell) later that year; Midshipman June 1806; he was employed in the latter for two years in blockading the Texel; he also accompanied the expedition against Copenhagen under Admiral Gambier; appointed to H.M.S. Tremendous he served on shore in the batteries at the reduction of Trieste, October 1813; Chapman was detached in charge of the imperial armed vessel Fidele and two of the ships boats to act in co-operation with the Austrian forces under Marshal Bellegarde; between 12th February to 9th April 1814 he was actively employed in preventing supplies from reaching Venice, Chioggia and Malamocco, and on 23rd March Chapman commanded and led the troop-boats which stormed and carried Fort Caranella, near the Po di Levante, on which occasion he took up a formidable position before Brondolo, and in recognition of his conduct received the thanks of Marshal Bellegarde and Generals Marchal and Pulszky; he passed his examination in December 1811, and after service in H.M.S. Malta (bearing the Flag of Rear-Admiral B. Hallowell) he was appointed Lieutenant H.M.S. Orlando (Captain J. Clavell), October 1814; he served with the latter at the blockade of the Chesapeake; he was paid off from her, August 1815; retired Commander 1859, ´Commander Chapman´s name appears, as a supernumerary for passage, on the books of no fewer than 73 ships of war, owing to the circumstances of his having been appointed Master of 18 or 19 different prize-vessels.´ (O´Byrne refers). Provenance: Spink December 1986

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