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Auction: 1025 - The Turl Collection of Naval General Service Medals 1793 - 1840
Lot: 87

Naval General Service 1793-1840, three clasps, 4 Novr. 1805, Martinique, Guadaloupe (Wm. Farley, Master´s Mate.), very fine Estimate £ 4,500-5,000 William Farley served as Midshipman in H.M.S. Hero as part of Commodore Sir Richard Strachan´s squadron, when he captured four French ships of the line, off Ferrol on the north coast of Gallicia, Spain, 4.11.1805. Four Small Naval Gold Medals were awarded for this action; Farley then served as Master´s Mate in H.M.S. Fawn as part of the combined naval and military assault and capture of the French-held island of Martinique in the Caribbean Sea, 24.2.1809; he continued to serve in the same rank and in the same ship during the combined naval and military operations commanded by Vice Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Cochrane and Lieutenant General Sir George Beckwith which culminated in the capture of the French-held Island of Guadaloupe, January-February 1810. William Farley qualified as Master for the 1st Rate ´line-of-battle´ ships, 17.7.1813; served in this capacity in H.M.S. Carnation (Captain G. Bentham), on the West India station, October 1813-April 1816; during which time, ´he witnessed an alarming fire in the dockyard of Port Royal, which was saved in a great measure by the officers and crew of that vessel´ (O´Byrne refers); served in H.M.S. Revolutionnaire (Captain the Hon. Fleetwood Pellew) in the Mediterranean, 1818-1822; served in the Herald, 1824-1830, during which time ´the latter vessel made a voyage to St. Petersburg, conveyed the Bishops of Jamaica and Barbados to their respective sees, brought upwards of a million dollars home from the Havana, took the Earl of Dalhousie to Quebec, landed the Marquis of Hastings at Malta, attended to the Duke of Devonshire on the occasion of his splendid embassy to Russia, conveyed to India Mr. Lushington, the Governor of Madras, brought home Earl Amherst, proceeded to Barbados and Jamaica with Major-General Sir James Lyon and the Earl of Belmore, the Governors of those islands, and was sent with Lord Heytesbury to St. Petersburg, Mr. Turner (Envoy-Extraordinary) to Carthagena, and Lord Aylmer to Quebec, returning from the last place mentioned with Sir James Kempt. Mr. Farley was placed on the reserved list in 1851´ (O´Byrne refers). Provenance: Glendining January 1931 Baldwin February 1954 Glendining June 1987 Spink July 2000

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