Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Plymouth Dockyard Renamed Devonport Medallion 1824, 55mm, white metal, by ‘R. Ellis and J. Ramsey’, the obverse featuring Neptune standing in a marine car pointing towards the dockyard, with Fame flying above holding a scroll inscribed ‘Devonport’, ‘Portus et Ara Tuis [A Harbour and Shrine for your people]’, the reverse inscribed ‘In Grateful Commemoration of the Condescension of his Most Gracious Majesty George IV, who Conferred upon the Town formerly known as Plymouth Dock the name of Devonport. Ann. Dom. MDCCCXXIV’, nearly extremely fine £80-£100

Referenced in British Historical Medals 1244; Eimer 1175.

Devonport, founded as Plymouth Dock in the reign of William III, received its present name as a result of a petition by the inhabitants to George IV in 1823.