The Loss Of The Brig Somers Table Medal 1846 GTRexclude enamel flaking

enamel flaking

The Battalion was raised in the Counties of Stormont

well marked with stamped 20 on bottom of optics housing

otherwise in near mint condition

The Loss Of The Brig Somers Table Medal 1846 GTRexclude enamel flakingThe Loss of the Brig Somers Table Medal 1846 Bronze, obverse engraver marked "C. C. Wright" and illustrates the U. S. Brig Somers foundering, with the Latin legend "Somers navis Americana. Ante Vera Cruz, Dec. 10th, 1846." (American ship Somers lost off Vera Cruz), reverse illustrates British boats going to the rescue and the Latin inscription "Pro Vitis Americanorum Conservatis" (For Saving American Lives), museum coded on the rim in red ink, 58 mm,