Medals for Services at Sea from the Collection of the Late Oliver Stirling Lee Three: Captain’s Coxswain R. Triggs, Royal Navy Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; Abyssinia 1867 (Cap. Coxn., H.M.S. Octavia); Ashantee 1873-74, no clasp (Captns. Coxn., H.M.S. Amethyst, 73-74), the third with minor official correction to rate, edge nicks, otherwise generally good very fine and a scarce combination of awards (3) £500-600 Footnote Reuben Triggs was born at Portsea, Hampshire in January 1838 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in November 1853. His subsequent stints of active service comprised time aboard H.M.S. Vulture in the Baltic operations of 1854-55, service as a Captain’s Coxswain to Commodore 1st Class L. G. Heath, commanding officer of the Octavia, during the Abyssinia operations of 1867, and in a similar capacity to the captain of the Amethyst during the Ashantee operations of 1873-74. Pensioned ashore in March 1876, the same month in which he received his L.S. & G.C. Medal, Triggs rejoined as an Able Seaman (Pensioner) in May of the following year, but was “discharged dead” from the training ship Asia in September 1882.
Medals for Services at Sea from the Collection of the Late Oliver Stirling Lee Three: Captain’s Coxswain R. Triggs, Royal Navy Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; Abyssinia 1867 (Cap. Coxn., H.M.S. Octavia); Ashantee 1873-74, no clasp (Captns. Coxn., H.M.S. Amethyst, 73-74), the third with minor official correction to rate, edge nicks, otherwise generally good very fine and a scarce combination of awards (3) £500-600 Footnote Reuben Triggs was born at Portsea, Hampshire in January 1838 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in November 1853. His subsequent stints of active service comprised time aboard H.M.S. Vulture in the Baltic operations of 1854-55, service as a Captain’s Coxswain to Commodore 1st Class L. G. Heath, commanding officer of the Octavia, during the Abyssinia operations of 1867, and in a similar capacity to the captain of the Amethyst during the Ashantee operations of 1873-74. Pensioned ashore in March 1876, the same month in which he received his L.S. & G.C. Medal, Triggs rejoined as an Able Seaman (Pensioner) in May of the following year, but was “discharged dead” from the training ship Asia in September 1882.
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