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Vessel: HMS Tartar
Recipient: Lieut. Henry Muller
Type: £50
Action: Capture of French privateer L'Hirondelle, St Domingo

(31st July, 1804)

Award Date: 23rd October, 1804
Inscription: From The Patriotic Fund at Lloyd's To Lieut. Henry Muller of H.M.S. Tartar who on the 31st July 1804 with the Boats of that Ship Boarded and Carried at Noon Day off the Island of San Domingo, the F.S.P. L'Hirondelle of Ten Guns as Recorded in the Gazette 16th October


Location: Lloyds of London 6/13
References: illustrated in JAAS Patriotic Fund Swords by Leslie Southwick Sept 1987; illustrated in Britons Strike Home by Jim Gawler

 

 

 


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