Watch List notes:

*Naval General Service, 1793-1840, 2 clasps, St Vincent, Copenhagen 1801 (Andrew Wells, Midshipman.), officially re-impressed naming, toned very fine / good very fine. Andrew Wells, of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, was born on 17 April, 1774, and entered the Royal Navy on 16 November 1795 as an Able Seaman on board H.M.S. Carnatic (74). As described in O'Byrne, he then came aboard H.M.S. Colossus (74) under Captain George Murray in February 1796. It was with this ship that Wells would see action off Cape St Vincent on 14 February 1797, as well as later whilst serving in her boats during several attacks upon the Cadiz flotilla. Having taken part in the blockade of Malta, the Colossus was wrecked upon rocks near the Scilly Isles on 10 December 1798, after which Andrew Wells, now as a Midshipman, followed Captain Murray aboard the Achille (74). He served in this ship, and in the Edgar (74) as part of the fleet led by Lord Nelson at the Battle of Copenhagen on 2 April 1801, later serving aboard H.M.S. London on the Baltic and Channel stations, reaching the ranks of Master's Mate and then Lieutenant on 29 April, 1802. He was appointed to the Gannet (16), where he cruised the channel and later took part in Admiral Gambier's attack upon Copenhagen in 1807, and then to the Mediterranean. Amongst other appointments, he later commanded the boats of the Naijaden (36) at the capture of the Russian fort on the coast of Lapland, taking several small vessels in the process. He reached the rank of Commander on 25 March, 1834, before being admitted to Greenwich Hospital on 26 October 1848. Acquired at a local auction in Sussex, c.1979. (£3500-4000)