Pair: Acting Chief Petty Officer J. Todd, Royal Navy

Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Near East (P/JX. 882559 J. Todd. A.B. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (JX.882559 J. Todd. A/C.P.O. H.M.S. Vidal.) mounted as worn, light polishing and contact marks, otherwise good very fine (2) £200-£240

H.M.S. Vidal was a survey ship in the Royal Navy and was unarmed except for four 4-pdr saluting guns and the first small ship designed to carry a helicopter. She was launched at Chatham on 31 July 1951, and broken up at Bruges in June 1976. Named after the nineteenth century surveyor Alexander Vidal, who had surveyed much of the coast of Africa, the crew of the ship formally annexed the islet of Rockall on 18 September 1955.