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Details Vessel: The Hope Recipient: Capt. James Pendergrass Type: £50 Action: Action between a division of the East India Company's fleet and a French squadron, China Seas (15th February, 1804) Award Date: 14th August, 1804 Inscription: From the Patriotic Fund at Lloyds to I. Pendergras Esqr.Comng the H.E.I.CO.s Ship Hope one of the Fleet of Merchantmen which on the 15th Feby 1804 Defeated & Pursued a Squadron of French Men of War Under Command of Adl Linois in the Marengo of 84 Guns as Recorded in the Gazte of the 11th Augst Location: Private collection (UK) Appeared at Auction: San Giorgio March 2009; Phillips 30th Apr 1987 . References: illustrated in JAAS Patriotic Fund Swords by Leslie Southwick Sept 1987