9th Sep, 2014 0:00
AUTUMN COUNTRY HOUSE SALE
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▲ A group of four medals awarded to Captai
The Crimea Medal, with two clasps for Sebastopol and Azov,
engraved Lt Marcus E Smithett RN HMS Tribune 1854;
The Baltic Medal,
engraved Lieut ME Smithett HMS Tribune 1854;
The Turkish Crimea Medal,
engraved Lieut ME Smithett HMS Britannia 1855;
The Order of the Medjidie,
5th Class, silver, gold and enamel, engraved Lieut ME Smithett HM Gunboat Clinker 1855;
with miniatures groups;
together with
an oval porcelain portrait plaque,
believed to beCaptain M E Smithett RN, showing him wearing his medals,
it appears also showing the three clasps on his Crimeamedal,
23 x 17cm
HMS Tribune was built at Sheerness dockyard and was armed with thirty 32-pounder guns on the main and quarter decks and carried a crew of 300 men. Smithett was a Lieutenant on Tribune, commanded by Swynfen Thomas Carnegie in Channel squadron, then the Baltic and then the Black Sea during the Crimean War. Whilst in the Baltic, Smithett had command of the prize crew of the Russian Finland barque 'Phoenix', captured off Gothland on 12 April 1854.
Tribune took part in the bombardment of Sebastopol in 1854.
HMS Britannia was a 120-gun first-rateship-of-the-lineand was launched 1823. She was decommissioned in 1843, before returning to service for the Crimean War, serving as flagship of Admiral Sir James Deans Dundas, commanding the British fleet in the Mediterranean and Black Seafrom 1851-4. Returned to England at the beginning of 1855 and became a hospital ship at Portsmouth, then a cadet training ship in 1859. She was moved to Portlandin 1862, then Dartmouthin 1863.
Captain Marcus Edmiston Smithett is listed as being the captain of HMS Clinker from March 1855.In the summer of 1855, Clinker and other vessels from the British Squadron were involved against Russian shipping at the entrance to the Sea of Azov and destroyed communications between Temryuk and Taman.
He retired as Commander in 1870.
Sold for £2,200
Condition Report
Split and stained grips. Dent to the scabbard. The blade is firm in the hilt. No looseness. Additional images available (upon request).
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Auction: AUTUMN COUNTRY HOUSE SALE, 9th Sep, 2014
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09SEP14 - STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET - BAND
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