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QSA (0) (W. Long. Siglmn: H.M.S. Sybille) small impressed naming

From Noble Numismatics on Friday.

QSA (0) (W.C.French, P.O. 1st Cl: H.M.S.Sybille.) Impressed.

Petty Officer 1st Class W.G.French confirmed on roll of H.M.S.Sybille. The Sybille was lost during bad weather on 16 January 1901 when she struck a reef near the farm at Steenboksfontein about five kilometres south of Lamberts Bay. Fortunately there was only one casualty. Her guns and various other pieces of equipment were salvaged during the following few days.

Hammer Au$380

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QSA (1) Cape Colony (W. Padfield. Armr: Cr: HMS Sybille) small impressed naming;
[ 1914-15 Star ]
BWM and VM (343711 W. Padfield. Ar. Mte. R.N.);
Royal Navy LS&GC EdVII. (343711. William Padfield. Armrs. Mte., HMS Prince of Wales)

Approximately 85 Queen’s South Africa Medals with clasp Cape Colony awarded to HMS Sybille.

William Padfield was born in Bath, Somerset, on 11 August 1877 and joined the Royal Navy on 20 September 1900, having previously served as a Private in the Royal Marine Light Infantry. He joined HMS Sybille in the rate of Armourer’s Crew on 9 October 1900, and served in her during the Boer War.

Joining HMS Prince of Wales on 22 December 1908, he was promoted Armourer’s Mate on 23 June 1910, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 4 October of that year.

He served during the Great War in HMS Prince of Wales from 17 August 1914 to 5 April 1917, and then in various shore based establishments, and was shore demobilised on 4 October 1919.

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QSA (1) South Africa 1902 (T. Johnson, Sto: H.M.S. Sybille)

Medal roll confirms medal without clasp.

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QSA (0) (W. H. Mortley, Siglmn: HMS Sybille);
Royal Navy LS&GC EdVII. (170314 W. H. Mortley, Boatman, H.M. Coast Guard.)

William Henry Mortley was born in the Dover area on 11 May 1877. He joined the Royal Navy as a Boy in October 1892 and soon transferred to the Signal Branch, becoming a Qualified Signaller in July 1899.

In October 1900 he joined the Sybille for what was to be an interesting deployment when Sybille ran aground on the rocks south of Lamberts Bay on the Cape west coast, early on the morning of 16 January 1901. Fortunately the two hundred and fifty odd members of the crew aboard were rescued without mishap. Mortley saw out the rest of the war in Monarch, Forte and Rattler.

In April 1905, he joined the Coastguard serving at Fowey before a transfer to Llantwil in 1906, then Amlwch in 1910. He served here until being moved to Scotland in 1915. However, in August 1917 he was back in Anglesey, being based at Holyhead until his discharge in June 1919.

He was awarded his LS&GC medal on 24 June 1910.

From the next Morton and Eden sale.

QSA (0) (Carp. W. Pibworth, R.N. H.M.S. Sybille.), officially engraved;
[ 1914-15 Trio ]

Shipwright Lieutenant William Pibworth was born on 9 July 1865 at Portsmouth, and had previously worked as a Shipwright befire beginning his naval service on 11 November 1890. He served aboard H.M.S. Sybille during the Boer war (with entitlement as above), and his medal was sent to him aboard HMS Fox on 11 February 1902. He later served during the Somaliland 1902-04 Campaign (also aboard HMS Fox) and during the Great War, rising to the rank of Shipwright Lieutenant at the time of his retirement in February 1920.