A Collection of Naval General Service Medals 1793-1840

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, St. Sebastian (William Robertson.) contact marks, therefore nearly very fine £2,000-£2,600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Naval General Service Medals 1793-1840.

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William Robertson is confirmed on the roll as a Carpenter’s Mate aboard H.M.S. Surveillante at the siege of St Sebastian. He joined Surveillante, from Regulus, as an Ordinary Seaman on 7 June 1807, becoming Carpenter’s Crew from 21 July 1807, and Carpenter’s Mate from 2 November 1807, and remained in this ship until 17 March 1814. After further service in Newcastle and Prince, he appears to have been paid off on 2 September 1815. His service continues again upon his appointment as Carpenter on the recently launched Beagle on 18 April 1823, and would have been closely involved in her conversion to a barque by the addition of a small mizzenmast, a forecastle and a large poop cabin in 1825, and continued in Beagle until 18 November 1827. It was Beagle’s famous second voyage of 1831-36 that conveyed Charles Darwing on his circumnavigation of the globe. Robertson, meanwhile, continued as Carpenter until finally discharged on 14 September 1850. Sold with copied record of service.

The only other recipient of an N.G.S. medal with this name was an officer at Trafalgar.