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Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (A. J. Jenner, Ch. Stoker, H.M.S. Camperdown.) impressed naming, edge bruising and contact marks that has partially obscured the name of the ship, otherwise nearly very fine £80-£100

Alfred James Jenner was born in Southwick, Sussex, on 3 February 1860, and joined the Royal Navy as Domestic 3rd Class on 25 July 1879. Raised Stoker aboard Inconstant 1 November 1880, and Leading Stoker aboard the gunvessel Surprise 12 August 1887, he was serving in this rate aboard Camperdown on 22 June 1893 when she was in collision with the battleship H.M.S. Victoria, flagship of the Royal Navy’s Mediterranean Fleet; Victoria took approximately fifteen minutes to sink, with 358 members of her crew - including Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon, K.C.B. - lost in the disaster. Awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal on 9 December 1892, Jenner was shore pensioned from Victory II on 21 September 1914.