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Description: | 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.'
caption: Medal commemorating The Tees Navigation Company; obverse
caption: Medal commemorating The Tees Navigation Company; reverse | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | medals Tees Navigation Company | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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