Lot Essay
Ex Jubilee Collection, May 1992.
The published Naval General Service Medal rolls confirm James Tooth as a Landsman aboard the Nassau for the action of 22.3.1808, one of just 30 recipients of this clasp on the Admiralty roll. One other man with these names was awarded a Medal with the 'Trafalgar' clasp.
For the destruction of the Danish 74-gun Prins Christian Frederik at Grenaa on the East Coast of Jutland on 22.3.1808.
James Tooth first entered the Royal Navy as a Landsman aboard the Princess of Orange in June 1803, aged 19 years, and transferred to the Ship's Company of the Nassau in February 1806. Subsequently present in her during her engagement with the Prins Christian Frederik off the coast of Denmark on 22.3.1808, Tooth was also lucky to survive a bout of Typhus that May, recovering at Yarmouth Hospital. Rejoining his ship that Summer, he removed to the Rota in November 1809 and remained in her until the end of hostilities, latterly being rated as an Ordinary Seaman (P.R.O. various ADM sources refer).
The published Naval General Service Medal rolls confirm James Tooth as a Landsman aboard the Nassau for the action of 22.3.1808, one of just 30 recipients of this clasp on the Admiralty roll. One other man with these names was awarded a Medal with the 'Trafalgar' clasp.
For the destruction of the Danish 74-gun Prins Christian Frederik at Grenaa on the East Coast of Jutland on 22.3.1808.
James Tooth first entered the Royal Navy as a Landsman aboard the Princess of Orange in June 1803, aged 19 years, and transferred to the Ship's Company of the Nassau in February 1806. Subsequently present in her during her engagement with the Prins Christian Frederik off the coast of Denmark on 22.3.1808, Tooth was also lucky to survive a bout of Typhus that May, recovering at Yarmouth Hospital. Rejoining his ship that Summer, he removed to the Rota in November 1809 and remained in her until the end of hostilities, latterly being rated as an Ordinary Seaman (P.R.O. various ADM sources refer).