Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (W. H. Emes, Master) good very fine £800-£1,000

Glendining’s 1902 when sold with clasp for Basque Roads; Collin Message Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, August 1999.

William Henry Emes passed for 2nd Master and Pilot of H.M. Sloops and smaller vessels in July 1829, and for Master of the same category of ship in June 1831. In January 1840 he became qualified to take charge as Master of vessels of the Fifth and Sixth rate. He was Master of the sixth rate corvette Magicienne 24 in the Syria operations in 1840. He evidently never progressed to Lieutenant R.N. as he does not appear in O’Byrne, but he is shown in the August 1852 Allen’s Navy List as being awarded an N.G.S. medal with one clasp.