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Vessel: HM Sloop Osprey
Recipient: Capt. George Younghusband
Type: £100
Action: Attack on French frigate L'Egyptienne, off Barbadoes

(23rd March, 1804)

Award Date: 29th May, 1804
Inscription: From The Patriotic Fund at Lloyd's to Geo. Younghusband Esqr Commander of H.M.S. Osprey of 18 Guns on the 23rd March 1804 when she Engaged Silenced & Pursued L'Egyptienne F.F.P. of 36 Guns and which Escaped only by Superior Sailing as Recorded in the London Gazte of the 19th May


Location: Private collection
Appeared at Auction: San Giorgio November 2007.

 

 

 


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