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Auction: 26002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 12

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Boat Service 1 Nov. 1809 (J. Brutton, Lieut R.M.), very fine

Provenance:
Sotheby’s, July 1981 and November 1985.

110 of these clasps awarded, of which 29 were to Tigre.

John Brutton served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Marines aboard H.M.S. Tigre. Tigre was laid down in 1790 as a 74-gun Téméraire-class ship of the line at Brest for service in the French Navy. Launched in May 1793, she was captured by the British little more than two years later at the Battle of Groix on 22 June 1795 and recommissioned in the Royal Navy for service against those who were her countrymen and she was active in the Napoleonic Wars.

Brutton was aboard her for the action in the Bay of Rosas off north-east Spain on 1 November 1809, for which this clasp was awarded. A French convoy was chased into the Bay in the aftermath of the Battle of Maguelone on 25 October. Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood ordered Captain Benjamin Hallowell, commander of Tigre, to take a squadron to capture or destroy the convoy. Boats of the squadron, under the orders of Lieutenant John Tailour of Tigre, were sent for a cutting out attack on the enemy under the cover of night on 31 October. By dawn the next morning every one of the eleven French vessels had either been carried out or burned.

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Estimate
£6,000 to £8,000

Starting price
£6000