Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Navarino (James Mellish.) good very fine £800-£1,200

Provenance: Glendining’s, March 1988.

James Mellish served as an Able Seaman in H.M.S. Genoa 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.’