Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: William E. Hyne, Master, Royal Navy

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Navarino (William E. Hyne, Volr.); China 1842 (W. E. Hyne, Actg. Master, H.M.S. Nimrod) original suspension, minor marks, otherwise good very fine (2) £1800-2200

William Ellis Hyne served as a Volunteer in Albion at Navarino. He commanded the boats of Conflict at the capture of the piratical slaver Nympha in 1830, on which occasion he was wounded. Acting Master of Nimrod in the operations on the coast of China, 1840-42, and on the coast of Scinde in 1843. He was commissioned Master, for 5th Rate vessels, on 14 December 1843, and died at Penzance in 1850.