Baldwin & Sons
Auction 101 28 September 2016
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS BY SUBJECT, Maritime, India, HMS Hastings, Silvered-metal Reproduction of the Ship's Figurehead, made to celebrate the centenary of C W Kellock & Co, of London and Liverpool, 1920, Hastings in full uniform with epaulettes, wearing Star of Order, on circular plinth with descriptive labels, 178mm. Well modelled, bruise to nose, otherwise very fine.
Francis Rawdon-Hastings (1754-1826), 1st Marquess of Hastings, Governor-General of India (1813-1823). At the Battle of Bunker Hill it was the young Hasings, then Lieutenant Lord Rawdon, who killed the American General Joseph Warren. C W Kellock & Co, international shipbrokers, now only of London. The East Indiaman Hastings, 74 guns was built in India for the East India Company and launched in 1818. The following year it was acquired by the Royal Navy, becoming HMS Hastings, a third rate ship of the line. The actual figurehead, once in Kellock's possession, is now in the Merseyside Maritime Museum.
Estimate: £80-120
Francis Rawdon-Hastings (1754-1826), 1st Marquess of Hastings, Governor-General of India (1813-1823). At the Battle of Bunker Hill it was the young Hasings, then Lieutenant Lord Rawdon, who killed the American General Joseph Warren. C W Kellock & Co, international shipbrokers, now only of London. The East Indiaman Hastings, 74 guns was built in India for the East India Company and launched in 1818. The following year it was acquired by the Royal Navy, becoming HMS Hastings, a third rate ship of the line. The actual figurehead, once in Kellock's possession, is now in the Merseyside Maritime Museum.
Estimate: £80-120