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Vessel: HMS Minerva
Recipient: Lieut. Charles A.F.N. Menzies (RM)
Type: £50
Action: Storming of Fort Finisterre and cutting out five Spanish vesssels

(22nd June, 1806)

Award Date: 22nd July, 1806
Inscription: From the Patriotic Fund at Lloyds to Lieut. Chas Menzies of the Royal Marines for his Zealous and Active Services as Volunteer upon the Cutting out from under the Fort in Finisterre Bay by the Boats of H.M.S. Minerva of Five Spanish Luggers on the 22nd June as Recorded in The London Gazette of the 15th July 1806


Location: Private Collection (UK)

 

 

 


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