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Vessel: HMS Mediator
Recipient: Capt. William Furlong Wise
Type: £100
Action: Destruction of fort at Samana

(21st February, 1807)

Award Date: 28th April, 1807
Inscription: From the Patriotic Fund at Lloyd's to William Furlong Wise Esq. Capt. of H.M.S. Mediator for his Gallant Conduct in Storming and Destroying with the Seamen and Marines belonging to His Majesty's Ships Bacchante and Mediator the Fort and Cannon in the Harbour of Samana on 16th of February 1807 as Recorded in the London Gazette of the 25th of April


Location: Private collection
Appeared at Auction: Case sold at Bonhams 5th Jul 2005 .

 

 

 


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