Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, Java, Algiers (Robert W. Innes, Lieut. R.N.)...

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, Java, Algiers (Robert W. Innes, Lieut. R.N.) nearly extremely fine £3,400-£4,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Confirmed on the rolls as Midshipman aboard H.M.S. Cornelia at the capture of Java, and as Lieutenant R.N. aboard H.M.S. Glasgow at the battle of Algiers. Robert Wintle Innes was brother of Retired Commander William John Innes, R.N. This officer entered the Navy on 21 April 1807, as First-class Volunteer on board the Favorite sloop, Captains John Nairne and Frederick Hoffman, employed at first off the coast of Africa, and then in the West Indies, where he accompanied Captain Hoffman into the Goelan 18. Proceeding in 1808 to the East Indies in the Cornelia frigate, Captain Henry Folkes Edgell, he served on shore as Midshipman in 1810-11 at the taking of the Isle of France, and similarly assisted at the storming of Fort Cornelis during the operations connected with the reduction of Java. He returned home in 1812 with Captain Edgell on board the Piedmontaise 38; and on 6 December 1813, after he had further served on the Home station in the Thisbe 28, Captain Thomas Dick, and San Josef and Queen Charlotte flag-ships of Lord Keith and Sir Pulteney Malcolm, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His subsequent appointments were: to the Harrier 18, Captains Andrew Pellet Green, John Forbes, and Sir Charles Thomas Jones, employed off the Canary Islands, on 22 February 1814; in 1815, to the Rifleman 18, and Pique 36, Captains Henry Edward Napier and Hon. Anthony Maitland; on 21 February1816, to the Glasgow 40, Captain Hon. A. Maitland, under whom he fought at Algiers; in April 1821, to the command of the Ionia colonial vessel; on 13 December 1827 and 2 March 1829, to the Infernal bomb, Captains Edmund Williams Gilbert and Brunswick Popham, and Madagascar 46, Captain Hon. Sir Robert Cavendish Spencer, both on the Mediterranean station; for a short time in 1832 to the Vernon 50, Captain Sir Francis Augustus Collier, fitting at Woolwich; and on 5 March 1836 to the command of the Pandora packet on the Falmouth station until January 1842, when he was placed on half-pay. He is understood to have died at Alverstoke, near Gosport, towards the end of 1850. Sold with copied Memorandum of Services and other research.