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Description: | Brass muzzleloading smoothbore brass gun mounted on a carriage. The gun was found in an Arab slave dhow which was captured by 'HMS Penguin' in the 1860s. HMS PENGUIN was a gun boat launched in 1860 and broken up in 1870. Her commanding officer was Lt Cdr E St J Garforth. Edmund St John Garforth was born in 1836 and entered the Navy as a cadet in 1849. Promoted to Sub Lieutenant in 1855; Lieutenant 1857; Commander 1867; Captain 1876. He took part in the Baltic campaign (1854) and the Crimea (1854-56) serving on HMS ALGIERS. Awarded the Baltic, Crimean and Turkish medals. In 1857 he served on HMS PELORUS as part of the Naval Brigade during the Indian Mutiny. He commanded the gun vessel HMS PENGUIN on the east coast of Africa until promoted to Commander in 1867. Captain Garforth conveyed Livingstone on his last expedition to the coast of Africa in 1866. He was presented with a silver telescope by the Emperor of Germany for rescuing passengers from a German passenger ship that ran ashore off Hastings in 1872 -he was Inspecting Commander, Coastguard, Hastings from 1870-1873. Garforth then commanded the PHILOMEL in the East Indies from 1873-6, commanded a Naval Brigade during the Malay campaign 1875-76 and was Captain of HMS ECLIPSE during the Egyptian War 1882 for which he was awarded the Egypt Medal and Khedive Star
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | E. St-John Garforth Other non-Michael Graham-Stewart collection H.M.S. Penguin artillery | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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