{"product_id":"admiral-lord-nelson-scouting-trophy-1910","title":"Admiral Lord Nelson Scouting Trophy, 1910","description":"\u003cp\u003eHeight including base: 23cm (9in)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSilver and oak. Small standing figure of Admiral Lord Nelson after Edward Hodges Bailly’s model atop Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square, London. Raised on an integral silver columnar base, engraved ‘Presented to the \/ Royal Naval and Military School \/ Boy Scouts \/ By Lieutenant Kenneth Michell RN’ over Baden-Powell’s Scouting motto ‘Be Prepared’. Further raised on its original octagonal stepped base. Maker’s mark of PK\u0026amp;P. Hallmarked London 1904.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe present trophy was made by the Plymouth silversmiths Page, Keen \u0026amp; Page, probably with an eye to the Trafalgar Centenary of 1905. It was finally purchased by Lieutenant Michell, then of HMS Forth, as a token of gratitude to the Boy Scouts of the Royal Naval and Military School, Devonport, who rescued him from his sinking yacht in the River Lyhner in summer of 1910. The trophy was presented to the school’s head scout with considerable ceremony on Trafalgar Day the same year. (\u003ci\u003eWestern Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e, 22 October 1910).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003eRead more \u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e~section 2~\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCommander Kenneth Michell, MVO, DSO*, DCS, RN (1887-1968) was a pioneer of the fledgling submarine service. Having been saved by the Boy Scouts, he went on to serve as First Lieutenant of the submarine C37 on a record breaking voyage to Hong Kong. From 1912 to 1916 he commanded the submarine C28 in home waters, before being transferred to the Adriatic as part of the reinforcement of the Italian Regia Marina based at the Arsenale, Venice against the Austro-Hungarian Navy. Here he won the Italian Al Valore Militare for his ‘bravery and seaman like skill’, and was further awarded and the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn his return home in 1917,\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003ehe was appointed to the submarine E50 and won his first Distinguished Service Cross near the North Hinder Lightship for ramming a German submarine while submerged and attempting to crush it on the seabed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1919 he commanded the monitor M33 in North Russia, shelling Bolshevik troops in support of the Anglo-Russian Expeditionary Force, and taking fire from both the Reds and a mutinous White Russian battalion. In 1924 he was in command of the new Hunt-class minesweeper HMS Truro and received the thanks of the Admiralty for his part in the search for the submarine L24 which was lost with all hands off Portland. The following year he was among a small group of officers selected to dine with George V and Queen Mary on board the Royal Yacht at Cowes. In 1926 Michell saved a girl from drowning in the River Thames, for which he was awarded a Royal Humane Society Medal. Michell retired from the Navy in 1931, but was recalled to service at the start of the Second World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1941, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order ‘for outstanding gallantry, fortitude and resolution during the Battle of Crete’, and a bar to his DSC for ‘gallantry and distinguished services’. The original recommendation for his DSO stated, ‘In addition to his duties as Senior Sea Transport Officer (S.S.T.O.) … Commander Michell showed a complete disregard of personal danger and took immediate action to put out fires, board damaged ships and organise fire and salvage parties. Commander Michell was an example to every officer at Suda Bay.’ He later was decorated at Buckingham Palace by George VI, with his son, Lieutenant Richard Michell of the destroyer Maori, who received a DSC for making the first torpedo hit on the Nazi battleship Bismarck.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCommander Michell was a lifelong supporter of the Scouting movement, and well into his old age was inspecting Scout troops near his Sussex home and presenting them with prizes that on one occasion included his old sextant.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Armoury St James","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57650495914357,"sku":null,"price":1400.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/7008\/3014\/files\/L1710946.jpg?v=1791896351","url":"https:\/\/armoury.co.uk\/products\/admiral-lord-nelson-scouting-trophy-1910","provider":"The Armoury St James's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}