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Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, 14 March 1795, St. Vincent (Thos. Pile.) minor...
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Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, 14 March 1795, St. Vincent (Thos. Pile.) minor edge bruising, otherwise dark toned, good very fine £4,000-£5,000
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Provenance: Glendining’s, December 1951, Collection of the late Lieutenant-Colonel K. O. N. Foster, D.S.O., O.B.E.; Spink 1972.
Thomas Pile is confirmed on the rolls as an Able Seaman aboard H.M.S. Captain in the action against the French fleet off Genoa, 14 March 1795, and in the same ship against the Spanish fleet in the battle of Cape St. Vincent, 14 February 1797. Nelson, present in both actions, was Commodore aboard the Captain in the latter battle and personally led one of the boarding parties that captured first the San Nicolas and then the San Josef.
In February 1797, Nelson had rejoined Jervis's fleet 25 miles west of Cape St. Vincent at the southwest tip of Portugal, just before it intercepted a Spanish fleet on 14 February. The Battle of Cape St Vincent made both Jervis's and Nelson's names. Jervis was made Earl St Vincent and Nelson was knighted for his initiative and daring.
Nelson had realised that the leading Spanish ships were escaping and wore Captain to break out of the line of battle to attack the much larger Spanish ships. Captain exchanged fire with the Spanish flagship, Santísima Trinidad, which mounted 136 guns on four decks. Later Captain closely engaged the 80-gun San Nicolas, when the Spanish ship was disabled by a broadside from Excellent and ran into another ship, the San Josef of 112 guns. With Captain hardly manoeuvrable, Nelson ran his ship alongside San Nicolas, which he boarded. Nelson was preparing to order his men to board San Josef next when she signalled her intent to surrender. The boarding of San Nicolas, which resulted in the taking of the two larger ships, was later immortalised as 'Nelson's Patent Bridge for Boarding First Rates.'
Captain was the most severely damaged of the British ships as she was in the thick of the action for longer than any other ship.
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Provenance: Glendining’s, December 1951, Collection of the late Lieutenant-Colonel K. O. N. Foster, D.S.O., O.B.E.; Spink 1972.
Thomas Pile is confirmed on the rolls as an Able Seaman aboard H.M.S. Captain in the action against the French fleet off Genoa, 14 March 1795, and in the same ship against the Spanish fleet in the battle of Cape St. Vincent, 14 February 1797. Nelson, present in both actions, was Commodore aboard the Captain in the latter battle and personally led one of the boarding parties that captured first the San Nicolas and then the San Josef.
In February 1797, Nelson had rejoined Jervis's fleet 25 miles west of Cape St. Vincent at the southwest tip of Portugal, just before it intercepted a Spanish fleet on 14 February. The Battle of Cape St Vincent made both Jervis's and Nelson's names. Jervis was made Earl St Vincent and Nelson was knighted for his initiative and daring.
Nelson had realised that the leading Spanish ships were escaping and wore Captain to break out of the line of battle to attack the much larger Spanish ships. Captain exchanged fire with the Spanish flagship, Santísima Trinidad, which mounted 136 guns on four decks. Later Captain closely engaged the 80-gun San Nicolas, when the Spanish ship was disabled by a broadside from Excellent and ran into another ship, the San Josef of 112 guns. With Captain hardly manoeuvrable, Nelson ran his ship alongside San Nicolas, which he boarded. Nelson was preparing to order his men to board San Josef next when she signalled her intent to surrender. The boarding of San Nicolas, which resulted in the taking of the two larger ships, was later immortalised as 'Nelson's Patent Bridge for Boarding First Rates.'
Captain was the most severely damaged of the British ships as she was in the thick of the action for longer than any other ship.
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Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, 14 March 1795, St. Vincent (Thos. Pile.) minor edge bruising, otherwise dark toned, good very fine £4,000-£5,000
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Provenance: Glendining’s, December 1951, Collection of the late Lieutenant-Colonel K. O. N. Foster, D.S.O., O.B.E.; Spink 1972.
Thomas Pile is confirmed on the rolls as an Able Seaman aboard H.M.S. Captain in the action against the French fleet off Genoa, 14 March 1795, and in the same ship against the Spanish fleet in the battle of Cape St. Vincent, 14 February 1797. Nelson, present in both actions, was Commodore aboard the Captain in the latter battle and personally led one of the boarding parties that captured first the San Nicolas and then the San Josef.
In February 1797, Nelson had rejoined Jervis's fleet 25 miles west of Cape St. Vincent at the southwest tip of Portugal, just before it intercepted a Spanish fleet on 14 February. The Battle of Cape St Vincent made both Jervis's and Nelson's names. Jervis was made Earl St Vincent and Nelson was knighted for his initiative and daring.
Nelson had realised that the leading Spanish ships were escaping and wore Captain to break out of the line of battle to attack the much larger Spanish ships. Captain exchanged fire with the Spanish flagship, Santísima Trinidad, which mounted 136 guns on four decks. Later Captain closely engaged the 80-gun San Nicolas, when the Spanish ship was disabled by a broadside from Excellent and ran into another ship, the San Josef of 112 guns. With Captain hardly manoeuvrable, Nelson ran his ship alongside San Nicolas, which he boarded. Nelson was preparing to order his men to board San Josef next when she signalled her intent to surrender. The boarding of San Nicolas, which resulted in the taking of the two larger ships, was later immortalised as 'Nelson's Patent Bridge for Boarding First Rates.'
Captain was the most severely damaged of the British ships as she was in the thick of the action for longer than any other ship.
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Provenance: Glendining’s, December 1951, Collection of the late Lieutenant-Colonel K. O. N. Foster, D.S.O., O.B.E.; Spink 1972.
Thomas Pile is confirmed on the rolls as an Able Seaman aboard H.M.S. Captain in the action against the French fleet off Genoa, 14 March 1795, and in the same ship against the Spanish fleet in the battle of Cape St. Vincent, 14 February 1797. Nelson, present in both actions, was Commodore aboard the Captain in the latter battle and personally led one of the boarding parties that captured first the San Nicolas and then the San Josef.
In February 1797, Nelson had rejoined Jervis's fleet 25 miles west of Cape St. Vincent at the southwest tip of Portugal, just before it intercepted a Spanish fleet on 14 February. The Battle of Cape St Vincent made both Jervis's and Nelson's names. Jervis was made Earl St Vincent and Nelson was knighted for his initiative and daring.
Nelson had realised that the leading Spanish ships were escaping and wore Captain to break out of the line of battle to attack the much larger Spanish ships. Captain exchanged fire with the Spanish flagship, Santísima Trinidad, which mounted 136 guns on four decks. Later Captain closely engaged the 80-gun San Nicolas, when the Spanish ship was disabled by a broadside from Excellent and ran into another ship, the San Josef of 112 guns. With Captain hardly manoeuvrable, Nelson ran his ship alongside San Nicolas, which he boarded. Nelson was preparing to order his men to board San Josef next when she signalled her intent to surrender. The boarding of San Nicolas, which resulted in the taking of the two larger ships, was later immortalised as 'Nelson's Patent Bridge for Boarding First Rates.'
Captain was the most severely damaged of the British ships as she was in the thick of the action for longer than any other ship.
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