Naval Medals from the Collection of the Late Jason Pilalas (Part I)

The 3-clasp Naval General Service medal awarded to Commander Robert P. Jones, Royal Navy, Able Seaman aboard the Agincourt at Camperdown, and served as Midshipman in Harpy in the action with the French frigate Pallas on 5 February 1800, and in the same ship at Copenhagen

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 3 clasps, Camperdown, Harpy 5 Feby 1800, Copenhagen 1801 (R. P. Jones Midshipman.) nearly extremely fine £18,000-£22,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Naval Medals from the Collection of the Late Jason Pilalas.

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Spink, December 1986.

Confirmed on the roll as Able Seaman aboard H.M.S. Agincourt at Camperdown; and served as Midshipman in Harpy in the action with the French frigate Pallas on 5 February 1800, and in the same sip at Copenhagen, although he is not shown on the roll for these two clasps.

Robert Parker Jones was born on 30 April 1786, and entered the Navy on 5 November 1796, as a Volunteer, on board the Agincourt 64, Captains John Williamson and John Lawford, under the former of whom he bore a part, as Midshipman, in the battle fought off Camperdown, 11 October 1797. In February 1798 he removed to the Nautilus sloop, Captain Henry Gunter, which vessel was wrecked, off Flamborough Head on 2 February 1799. Joining then the Harpy 18, Captains Henry Bazely, William Birchall, and Charles Worsley Boys, he was afforded an opportunity of witnessing in that vessel the capture of the French frigate Pallas, and of participating in the action off Copenhagen, 2 April 1801. He was next employed for a period of three years, on the Irish, African, and West India stations, in the Princess Charlotte frigate, Captain Hon. Francis Farington Gardner, Penguin 18, Captain George Morris, and Inconstant 36, Captain Edward Stirling Dickson; after which he proceeded in the Weymouth to India, and was there (having passed his examination in July 1803) appointed, 25 December 1805, Acting-Lieutenant of the Albion 74, Captain John Ferrier. Being confirmed to that ship on 30 August 1806, he continued in her until he returned to England in June, 1809. His succeeding appointments were, in March and December, 1810, and in February 1812, to the Edgar, Tremendous, and Cressy 74’s, Captains Stephen Poyntz, Robert Campbell, Charles Dudley Pater, and Charles Dashwood, employed on the Baltic, Channel, and West India stations. The Cressy, of which he had been for upwards of two years First-Lieutenant, he left in May 1814. He accepted his present rank on 9 July 1840.
Commander Jones married, 23 July 1819, Jane, second daughter of the late Lieutenant-General Lewis, of the Royal Artillery.