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A very scarce original Admiralty Communication, H.M. Ship William & Mary, Woolwich, 24 July 1847. Six by eight inches, signed by Gordon Bremer as Commodore, addressed to Captain Hall (Nemesis Hall) of H.M. Steam Vessel Dragon, requiring him to submit to the Admiralty quarterly reports on the state of those articles on which a new “plan of galvanizing” has been tried. This memorandum is addressed to Capt. (later Admiral) William Hutcheon Hall (1797-1878) who served in the First Anglo-Chinese War and the Crimean WAR. In 1816-17, he served as a midshipman under Captain Basil Hall, with whom he attended William Amherst’s embassy to China. In November 1839, Hall obtained command of Nemesis of the British East India Company in China, where he served in the First Anglo-Chinese War (1839-43). The ship’s first engagement was against Chinese forts and a fleet of junks in the Second Battle of Chuenpee on 7 January 1841. He was also present at the Battle of First Bar on the 27th of February. In commemoration of his service, he was commonly known in the navy as “Nemesis Hall.” In very good to near fine conditio............................. $450.00  |