The John Goddard Collection of Important Naval Medals and Nelson Letters

Commander John E. Cabburn, R.N., who commanded a party of seamen on shore at the capture of the Isle of France, and took part in the storming of Fort Cornelis at the capture of Java

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Java [10 RN] (J. E. Cabburn, Master’s Mate. R.N.) light edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise good very fine £8000-10000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The John Goddard Collection of Important Naval Medals and Nelson Letters.

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Provenance: Whitaker Collection 1890; Sotheby, March 1980.

Java [10 issued to the Royal Navy] - Henry Banister, A.B., Illustrious (Known); Thomas Birtles, L.M., Scipion (Known); John E. Cabburn, Master’s Mate, Cornelia; Lawrence Dennehy, Master’s Mate, Illustrious; Robert W. G. Festing, Acting Captain, Illustrious; Charles Harris, Ord., Illustrious; Edward Lloyd, Lieutenant R.N., Staff of General Auchmuty; John Norris, Coxswain, Leda; Jeremiah Reynolds, Ord., Minden; William C. Simmons, Midshipman, Illustrious.

John Everrest Cabburn entered the Navy on 5 September 1801, as First Class Volunteer on board the Ardent 64, Captain William Nowell, lying at Sheerness, but was discharged on 12 April 1802. He again embarked, 3 May 1804, as Midshipman, on board the Utrecht 64, Captains John Wentworth Loring, Francis Pickmore, and Henry Inman, stationed in the Downs; and, in January 1805, he removed to the Ramillies 74, Captains F. Pickmore and Robert Tarker, in the West Indies. After witnessing the surrender of M. Linois’ squadron in March 1806, and assisting on shore at the reduction of the Danish islands of St. Thomas and Santa Croix, in December 1807, Mr. Cabburn was transferred in November 1808, to the Cornelia 32, Captain Henry Folkes Edgell, on the East India station; as Master’s Mate of which ship we find him, in 1810-11, contributing to the capture of the Isle of France, and also of the island of Java. On the former occasion he landed in command of a party of seamen; and at Java he was employed in the batteries and took part in the storming of Fort Cornelis. In the course of 1812 he became attached, in succession, to the Illustrious 74, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore William Robert Broughton, and the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, Doris 36, Captain William Jones Lye, and Niobe 40, Captains William Augustus Montagu and Henry Collins Deacon. Under Captain Montagu he served off Cherbourg, escorted a convoy to Quebec, and was employed with the force off Lisbon; and under Captain Deacon, he was at the surrender of Guadeloupe in 1815. Having acted for some time as Lieutenant, Mr. Cabburn was confirmed in that rank by commission dated 13 February 1815. In the following November he was placed on half-pay. His last appointments were, 26 July 1841, to the Ocean 80, guardship at Sheerness, and, 23 January 1844, to the post of Admiralty Agent on board the contract steamer Thames, in which he made three voyages to the West Indies and Mexico. Lieutenant Cabburn, who was not employed after June 1845, received a medal for the capture of Java. He was appointed to the rank of Commander on the Retired List on 1 October 1860.