Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Navarino (John Raveling.) pawnbroker’s marks to edge at 11 o’clock, minor edge bruising, and light contact marks, therefore very fine £800-£1,200

Provenance: Sotheby’s, May 1908.

John Raveling served as Gunner’s Crew in H.M.S. Glasgow during the battle of Navarino in which the combined fleets of Britain, France and Russia engaged and routed the Turkish fleet, 20 October 1827. The morning after the battle Admiral Sir Edward Codrington described the state of the Turkish fleet as such, ‘Out of a fleet composed of eighty-one men-of-war, only one frigate and fifteen smaller vessels are in a state to ever to put to sea again.’