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[Line Crossing Certificate.] By Royal Command. Be it known that J.H. Reynols did, on the 24th Day of Aug.t 1941in His Britannic Majesty's Ship Edinburgh, enter our Realm... Cha.s E. Davis.
Galvin & Sales Ltd. Cape Town [n.d., 1941].
Chromolithographic certificate with matching Gothic mss. name. Sheet 385 x 560mm (15¼ x 22"). Folds reinforced with tape on the reverse.
A 'Crossing the Line' certificate, given at an initiation ceremony for those on a ship crossing the Equator for the first time, a naval tradition recorded by Joesph Banks on Cook's first voyage. This is a war-time example, for H.M.S. Edinburgh, a light cruiser accompanying a convoy to South Africa. It is signed by Charles Ernest Davis, Chief Petty Officer, who died in a German attack on the Edinburgh in the Barents Sea., first by a U-boat then by three destroyers. Badly damaged, the ship was scutttled after the surviving crew were evacuated. Most of the 4.5 tons of gold bullion onboard was recovered in 1981.
[Ref: 55551] £190.00
Chromolithographic certificate with matching Gothic mss. name. Sheet 385 x 560mm (15¼ x 22"). Folds reinforced with tape on the reverse.
A 'Crossing the Line' certificate, given at an initiation ceremony for those on a ship crossing the Equator for the first time, a naval tradition recorded by Joesph Banks on Cook's first voyage. This is a war-time example, for H.M.S. Edinburgh, a light cruiser accompanying a convoy to South Africa. It is signed by Charles Ernest Davis, Chief Petty Officer, who died in a German attack on the Edinburgh in the Barents Sea., first by a U-boat then by three destroyers. Badly damaged, the ship was scutttled after the surviving crew were evacuated. Most of the 4.5 tons of gold bullion onboard was recovered in 1981.
[Ref: 55551] £190.00