Lot Archive

Lot

№ 677

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7 December 2005

Hammer Price:
£470

Transport 1899-1902, 1 clasp, S. Africa 1899-1902 (C. C. Hildyard) extremely fine £400-450

C. C. Hildyard was 2nd Officer aboard the Pacific Steam Navigation Company ship Orissa. The liner, of 5,358 tons, was launched in 1895 and torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine off Skerryvore on 25 June 1918.