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Ex Whittaker Collection, 1890.
The published Naval General Service Medal rolls confirm John Dibben as a Landsman aboard the Tigre for both the Acre operations of May 1799, and Egypt operations of March to September 1801, the former being one of just 41 clasps on the Admiralty roll.
'Early on the morning of 18 March [1799], a Corvette and nine Gunboats were seen from the Tigre, and, after a chase, the whole Flotilla, with the exception of the Corvette, was captured. The Prizes carried 32 guns and 208 men, and were laden with battering guns and every kind of ammunition and stores necessary to prosecute the siege, all of which they had brought from Damietta. The guns were now employed in the defence [of Acre], and the vessels in harassing the enemy'.
'Napoleon confessed to a loss of 3000 men before Acre, and always spoke with bitterness of the defeat inflicted upon him by the English Naval Captain [Sir Sydney Smith], who, he said, 'had made him miss his destiny', which he professed to believe included the subjugation of India. It is related of the Officer who foiled the victor of Austerlitz and Marengo, that during the siege of Acre he challenged this great antagonist to a duel; but the latter sent him a contemptuous refusal, declaring he could only fight an equal, such as Marlborough' (Great Battles of the British Navy, by Lieutenant C.R. Low, R.N., refers).
John Dibben, who was born in Handley, Dorset, joined the Ship's Company of the Tigre as a Landsman at Portsmouth in October 1798, aged 20 years. He was finally paid off from her at Plymouth in September 1802 (Various P.R.O. ADM sources refer).
The published Naval General Service Medal rolls confirm John Dibben as a Landsman aboard the Tigre for both the Acre operations of May 1799, and Egypt operations of March to September 1801, the former being one of just 41 clasps on the Admiralty roll.
'Early on the morning of 18 March [1799], a Corvette and nine Gunboats were seen from the Tigre, and, after a chase, the whole Flotilla, with the exception of the Corvette, was captured. The Prizes carried 32 guns and 208 men, and were laden with battering guns and every kind of ammunition and stores necessary to prosecute the siege, all of which they had brought from Damietta. The guns were now employed in the defence [of Acre], and the vessels in harassing the enemy'.
'Napoleon confessed to a loss of 3000 men before Acre, and always spoke with bitterness of the defeat inflicted upon him by the English Naval Captain [Sir Sydney Smith], who, he said, 'had made him miss his destiny', which he professed to believe included the subjugation of India. It is related of the Officer who foiled the victor of Austerlitz and Marengo, that during the siege of Acre he challenged this great antagonist to a duel; but the latter sent him a contemptuous refusal, declaring he could only fight an equal, such as Marlborough' (Great Battles of the British Navy, by Lieutenant C.R. Low, R.N., refers).
John Dibben, who was born in Handley, Dorset, joined the Ship's Company of the Tigre as a Landsman at Portsmouth in October 1798, aged 20 years. He was finally paid off from her at Plymouth in September 1802 (Various P.R.O. ADM sources refer).