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Thursday, 25 - Monday, 29 August 2022
MEDAL GROUP to 146288 G.H.NEEL, CH.STO. HMS BULWARK / R.N. & RIBBON BAR
Current Bid $120 (14 bids, reserve met)
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Lot Details
Chief Stoker. HMS Bulwark. Includes Long Service and Good Conduct medal. HMS Bulwark was one of five London-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy at the end of the 19th century. The Londons were a sub-class of the Formidable-class pre-dreadnoughts. Completed in 1902 she was initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet as its flagship. The ship then served with the Channel and Home Fleets from 1907 to 1910; usually as a flagship. From 1910 to 1914; she was in reserve in the Home Fleet. At the start of WWI in 1914 Bulwark along with the rest of the squadron was attached to the Channel Fleet to protect the British Expeditionary Force as it moved across the Channel to France. On 26 November 1914 she was destroyed by a large internal explosion with the loss of 741 men near Sheerness; only a dozen men survived the detonation. It was probably caused by the overheating of cordite charges that had been placed adjacent to a boiler-room bulkhead.
