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№ 641

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4 March 2020

Hammer Price:
£700

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (George Dowrick, A.B., H.M. Brig Linnet, 25 Yrs.) engraved naming, edge nicks and minor contact wear, otherwise very fine £500-£700

Provenance: Jack Deacon Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, June 2002.

George Dowrick was born at St. Mawes, Cornwall, in 1807 and joined the Royal Navy as an Ordinary Seaman aboard the brig H.M.S. Kingfisher on 28 December 1825, a rate that would suggest he had gained at least two years’ experience of the sea elsewhere, probably as a fishing fleet man. His subsequent career was spent entirely aboard similar 8-gun brigs, all of which operated in home waters out of Falmouth. He joined H.M.S. Linnet on 26 February 1848, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal ion 13 February 1851, being shore pensioned five days later. Eight years later, however, he rejoined as a ‘Pensioner’ with the rate of Able Seaman in H.M.S. Asia, being shore pensioned for a final time on 30 November 1861.

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