Auction Catalogue

23 November 2009

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Medals from the Collection of the Late Eric Smith (Part II)

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Lot

№ 139

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23 November 2009

Hammer Price:
£170

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (J. 99047 J. E. Wells, L.S., H.M.S. Spearfish), extremely fine £40-60

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the late Eric Smith.

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H.M. Submarine Spearfish won Battle Honours for Norway 1940 and North Sea 1940. Having torpedoed and damaged the pocket battleship Lutzow in the Kattegat on 11 April 1940, she was herself torpedoed and sunk by the U-34 that August. There was only one survivor.