1826 1842 1846 Great Britian Sovereign and Half Sovereign The Birkenhead SANGS Graded
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SHIPWRECK Coinage - History in your Hands
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WHAT IS THE BIRKENHEAD DRILL ?
THE EVENTS DURING THE SINKING OF THE HMS BIRKENHEAD OFF THE CAPE COAST OF SOUTH AFRICA GAVE RISE TO THE PROTOCOL THAT WOMAN AND CHILDREN ABANDON SHIP FIRST AND THEN THE CREW AND THE CAPTAIN LAST.
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SALVAGED FROM THE FAMOUS BIRKENHEAD SHIP WHICH SANK OFF THE COAST OF DANGER POINT SOUTHERN AFRICA IN 1852
SALVAGE COINAGE
TRUE RARITY WITH SANGS PROVENANCE
THE GREAT BRITISH SOVEREIGNS & 1/2 SOVEREIGN
1826 GOLD SOVEREIGN
S A N G S GRADEAU 50
1842 GOLD SOVEREIGN
S A N G S GRADEAU 50
1846 GOLD 1/2 SOVEREIGN
S A N G S GRADEAU 53
EXTREMELY RARE
A Collectors Dream - A Remarkable Find
A good opportunity to purchase these coins of historical value - salvaged from the HMS Birkenhead.
The salvage expedition expected to find a large treasure of military wages in gold coins however this was not found.
Only a handfull of gold coins were salvaged and it is assumed these came from the personal possessions of the military officers on board.
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1826 GOLD SOVEREIGN
S A N G S GRADE AU 50
The catalogue price for the EF grade is: £ 1 200 or R 28 000
1842 GOLD SOVEREIGN
S A N G S GRADE AU 50
The catalogue price for the EF grade is: £ 570 or R 12 000
1846 1/2 GOLD SOVEREIGN
S A N G S GRADE AU 53
The catalogue price for the EF grade is: £ 600 or R 14 000
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THIS MAGNIFICENT LOT OF 3 SLABBED AND GRADED BRITISH COINS SHOULD HAVE A VALUE R60 000+
NOW OFFERED AT A REMARKABLE PRICE FOR THE SET OF 3 COINS AT ONLY
R 45 000
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Details:
1826 SOVEREIGN Metal Content: Gold Weight: 7.3224 grams Diameter: 22 mm
1842 SOVEREIGN Metal Content: Gold Weight: 7.3224 grams Diameter: 22 mm
1846 1/2 SOVEREIGN Metal Content: Gold Weight: 3.994 grams Diameter: 19.5 mm
Description:
THE EVENTS DURING THE SINKING OF THE HMS BIRKENHEAD
She was wrecked on 26 February 1852, while transporting troops to Algoa Bay at Danger Point near Gansbaai, 140 kilometres from Cape Town, South Africa. There were not enough serviceable lifeboats for all the passengers, and the soldiers famously stood firm, thereby allowing the women and children to board the boats safely.
Only 193 of the 643 people on board survived, and the soldiers' chivalry gave rise to the protocol when abandoning ship,while the "Birkenhead drill" of Rudyard Kipling's poem came to describe courage in face of hopeless circumstances.
The surviving soldiers mustered and awaited their officers’ orders. Salmond ordered Colonel Seton to send men to the chain pumps; sixty were directed to this task, sixty more were assigned to the tackles of the lifeboats, and the rest were assembled on the poop deck in order to raise the forward part of the ship. The women and children were placed in the ship’s cutter, which lay alongside. Two other boats were manned, but one was immediately swamped and the other could not be launched due to poor maintenance and paint on the winches, leaving only three boats available. The two large boats, with capacities of 150 men each, were not among them.
The surviving officers and men assembled on deck, where Lieutenant-Colonel Seton of the 74th Foot took charge of all military personnel and stressed the necessity of maintaining order and discipline to his officers. As a survivor later recounted: “Almost everybody kept silent, indeed nothing was heard, but the kicking of the horses and the orders of Salmond, all given in a clear firm voice”
Ten minutes after the first impact, the engines still turning astern, the ship struck again beneath the engine room, tearing open her bottom. She instantly broke in two just aft of the mainmast. The funnel went over the side and the forepart of the ship sank at once. The stern section, now crowded with men, floated for a few minutes before sinking.
Just before she sank, Salmond called out that “all those who can swim jump overboard, and make for the boats”. Colonel Seton, however, recognising that rushing the lifeboats would risk swamping them and endangering the women and children, ordered the men to stand fast, and only three men made the attempt. The cavalry horses were freed and driven into the sea in the hope that they might be able to swim ashore.
The soldiers did not move, even as the ship broke up barely 20 minutes after striking the rock. Some of the soldiers managed to swim the 2 miles (3.2 km) to shore over the next 12 hours, often hanging on to pieces of the wreck to stay afloat, but most drowned, died of exposure or were taken by sharks.
I remained on the wreck until she went down; the suction took me down some way, and a man got hold of my leg, but I managed to kick him off and came up and struck out for some pieces of wood that were on the water and started for land, about two miles off. I was in the water about five hours, as the shore was so rocky and the surf ran so high that a great many were lost trying to land. Nearly all those that took to the water without their clothes on were taken by sharks; hundreds of them were all round us, and I saw men taken by them close to me, but as I was dressed (having on a flannel shirt and trousers) they preferred the others.
- Letter from Lieutenant J.F. Girardot, 43rd Light Infantry, to his father, 1 March 1852.
The next morning, the schooner Lioness discovered one of the cutters, and after saving the occupants of the second boat made her way to the scene of the disaster. Arriving in the afternoon, she found 40 people still clinging to the rigging. It was reported that of the approximately 643 people aboard, only 193 were saved. Captain Edward WC Wright of the 91st Argyllshire Regiment was the most senior army officer to survive; he was awarded a brevet majority for his actions during the ordeal, dated 26 February 1852.The number of personnel aboard is in some doubt, but an estimate of 638 was published in The Times. It is generally thought that the survivors comprised 113 soldiers (all ranks), 6 Royal Marines, 54 seamen (all ranks), 7 women, 13 children and at least one male civilian, but these numbers cannot be substantiated, as muster rolls and books were lost with the ship. ref wikipedia
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