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Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Algiers (B. W. Tracey. Volr. 1st Class) backstrap...
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Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Algiers (B. W. Tracey. Volr. 1st Class) backstrap of clasp a little distorted, otherwise very fine £1,600-£2,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Sotheby’s, April 1993; Colin Message Collection, August 1999. Benjamin Wheatley Tracey was born on 22 July 1805, at the Cove of Cork, son of George Thomas Tracey, Esq., Purser and Paymaster R.N. (1795); and brother-in-law of Commander John James Hough, R.N., and of Captain Robert Kellow, R.M., who died in 1844. This officer entered the Navy, 14 January 1816, as First.-class Volunteer, on board the Albion 74, Captain John Coode. In that ship, of which his father was at the time Purser, he fought in the ensuing August at the battle of Algiers. Being paid off from her on her return from the Mediterranean in May 1819, he next, in March 1820, joined, in the capacity of Midshipman, the Vigo 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Robert Lambert at St. Helena, where he remained until January 1822. Between the latter date and March 1824, he served at Portsmouth in the Ramillies 74, Captain Edward Brace, and Starling 4, Lieut.-Commander Charles Turner; and he was next from March until October 1824 and from December 1824 until February 1826, employed at Chatham and Plymouth, as Mate, in the Basilisk cutter, Lieut.-Commander John James Hough, and Windsor Castle 74, Captains Hugh Downman and Edward Durnford King. He was then transferred to the Java 52, Captains John Wilson and William Fairbrother Carroll; to which ship, stationed in the East Indies, he continued attached as Mate and Lieutenant (commission dated 30 January 1829) until January 1830. From 29 August 1831 until 1836 he commanded a station in the Coast Guard. This was his last appointment. Lieutenant Tracey was a claimant of the Tracey peerage. He married, 16 April 1831, Elizabeth, daughter of William Howard, Esq., of Cork, and has issue three sons and two daughters.
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Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Algiers (B. W. Tracey. Volr. 1st Class) backstrap of clasp a little distorted, otherwise very fine £1,600-£2,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Sotheby’s, April 1993; Colin Message Collection, August 1999. Benjamin Wheatley Tracey was born on 22 July 1805, at the Cove of Cork, son of George Thomas Tracey, Esq., Purser and Paymaster R.N. (1795); and brother-in-law of Commander John James Hough, R.N., and of Captain Robert Kellow, R.M., who died in 1844. This officer entered the Navy, 14 January 1816, as First.-class Volunteer, on board the Albion 74, Captain John Coode. In that ship, of which his father was at the time Purser, he fought in the ensuing August at the battle of Algiers. Being paid off from her on her return from the Mediterranean in May 1819, he next, in March 1820, joined, in the capacity of Midshipman, the Vigo 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Robert Lambert at St. Helena, where he remained until January 1822. Between the latter date and March 1824, he served at Portsmouth in the Ramillies 74, Captain Edward Brace, and Starling 4, Lieut.-Commander Charles Turner; and he was next from March until October 1824 and from December 1824 until February 1826, employed at Chatham and Plymouth, as Mate, in the Basilisk cutter, Lieut.-Commander John James Hough, and Windsor Castle 74, Captains Hugh Downman and Edward Durnford King. He was then transferred to the Java 52, Captains John Wilson and William Fairbrother Carroll; to which ship, stationed in the East Indies, he continued attached as Mate and Lieutenant (commission dated 30 January 1829) until January 1830. From 29 August 1831 until 1836 he commanded a station in the Coast Guard. This was his last appointment. Lieutenant Tracey was a claimant of the Tracey peerage. He married, 16 April 1831, Elizabeth, daughter of William Howard, Esq., of Cork, and has issue three sons and two daughters.
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