Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Nassau 22 March 1808 (James Moullen, Gunner.) attractively toned, some light scratches to obverse, otherwise nearly extremely fine £4,000-£5,000

Spink N.C. July 1948 and March 1949; Glendinings, June 1952, April 1953, and May 1965; Christie’s, July 1985.

Approximately 30 clasps issued for ‘Nassau 22 March 1808’.

James Moullen is confirmed as a gunner aboard H.M.S. Nassau when, together with H.M.S. Stately, they jointly attacked and destroyed the Danish 74-gun ship Prindts Christian Frederick off Grenaa, Coast of Jutland, Denmark, on 22 March 1808. The Nassau suffered two men killed, and sixteen men wounded, whilst the Stately lost four men killed, and two officers and twenty-six men wounded. The loss to the Danish, out of a crew of five hundred and seventy-six, amounted to fifty-five men killed and eighty-eight wounded.