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Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Java (William Costor.) fitted with an attractive...
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Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Java (William Costor.) fitted with an attractive contemporary silver ribbon slide engraved ‘Copenhagen 1807’ and ‘Isle of France 1811’, edge bruise and lightly polished, otherwise good very fine £1,600-£2,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 1994. Confirmed on the roll as Captain of the Fore Top aboard H.M.S. Hesper at the capture of Java. William Costor was aged 21 when he entered the Royal Marines as an Able Seaman aboard H.M.S. Goshawk on 7 February 1807. His trade was given as ‘mariner’, which explains his A.B. rating. Goshawk served on the Irish station and in the North Sea, and took part in the seizure of the Danish fleet at Copenhagen in 1807. Costor subsequently served in the Amsterdam from April to September 1809; and the Hesper from September 1809 to July 1812, being rated first as Able Seaman, then Quarter Gunner from October 1809, and Captain of the Fore Top from August 1810, and in this rate saw service at the capture of Java. He was invalided out of Hesper on 4 July 1812, into Doris as Able Seaman for passage home only from 5 July to 23 October, and into his final ship Gladiator from 24 October to 2 November 1812, when paid off. He was placed on the Greenwich Hospital books on 16 November 1843, at the age of 61. Sold with copy of Greenwich Hospital record of service which shows his last ship as Doris and ‘wounded head’.
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Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Java (William Costor.) fitted with an attractive contemporary silver ribbon slide engraved ‘Copenhagen 1807’ and ‘Isle of France 1811’, edge bruise and lightly polished, otherwise good very fine £1,600-£2,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 1994. Confirmed on the roll as Captain of the Fore Top aboard H.M.S. Hesper at the capture of Java. William Costor was aged 21 when he entered the Royal Marines as an Able Seaman aboard H.M.S. Goshawk on 7 February 1807. His trade was given as ‘mariner’, which explains his A.B. rating. Goshawk served on the Irish station and in the North Sea, and took part in the seizure of the Danish fleet at Copenhagen in 1807. Costor subsequently served in the Amsterdam from April to September 1809; and the Hesper from September 1809 to July 1812, being rated first as Able Seaman, then Quarter Gunner from October 1809, and Captain of the Fore Top from August 1810, and in this rate saw service at the capture of Java. He was invalided out of Hesper on 4 July 1812, into Doris as Able Seaman for passage home only from 5 July to 23 October, and into his final ship Gladiator from 24 October to 2 November 1812, when paid off. He was placed on the Greenwich Hospital books on 16 November 1843, at the age of 61. Sold with copy of Greenwich Hospital record of service which shows his last ship as Doris and ‘wounded head’.
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