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Medal commemorating The Tees Navigation Company
Medal commemorating The Tees Navigation Company. Obverse: Starboard bow view of a brig under sail. Legend, (outer) 'TEES NAVIGATION COMPY . MELIORA SPERAMUS'; (inner) 'INCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLT. 1808'. Reverse: View of the new channel with shipping, hills in the distance. Legend: 'IN COMMEMORATION OF THE OPENING OF THE NEW CHANNEL TO NEWPORT ON THE 10 FEB 1831'. Exergue: 'AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS FOR DEEPENING & STRAIGHTENING THE REST OF THE CHANNEL OF THE RIVER BETWEEN STOCKTON & THE SEA.'
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Object details
| ID: | MEC1356 |
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| Collection: | Coins and medals |
| Type: | Medal |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | William Alexander Brooks; Unknown |
| Date made: | 1851 |
| People: | Tees Navigation Company |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: 51 mm |