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Are posts now screened in Identification Section?

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June 14, 2011 at 9:53 pm #11805

john f.
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Is it new protocol or a glitch that new thread are screened in the Identification section before being posted? That’s what just happened when I tried posting a medal for identification.

June 15, 2011 at 1:06 am #13186

sirius
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John, no not for OMSA members. I see that your signature is indicating you are an OMSA member, and that is excellent. However, you have to realize that on the old Forum there was no name registration required, only a valid email address. Since we have carried over all the userids from the old Forum, it has unfortunately not been possible to correctly identify all OMSA members, such as yourself, up front. I will update your status to OMSA member and there will be no moderation of your posts in the future.

Unfortunately, we had to introduce the moderation step to prevent spammers form flooding the forum. This is hopefully a temporary measure. Sorry that you were hit by this measure. It should be corrected now. You may have to log out and in again for this to take effect.

Thanks, -Peter
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The only information appearing to be available for this unclaimed clasp can be found in the London Gazette issue of 1849, where the approved NGS clasps were published:

Boats of ‘Fawn’ under Lieut. Morgan. Action with cutter and schooner ‘Guadaloupe’, and capture.

A search of the Navy List from 1793-1815 reveals a total of 18 commissioned officers with the surname of Morgan. Of these, 9 have a Lieutenant’s commission date after 25 July 1809 or died before that date and can be ruled out. Of the remaining, three died between 1817-22 before receiving a promotion and must also be ruled out. Out of the remaining six, four have entries in either Marshall’s or O’Byrne’s Naval Biographies, two with service records, but these two do not mention anything about the action, which would be highly unlikely if it resulted in the man’s promotion. This leaves four potential candidates, one being promoted as late as 1827, he is probably not the man. The remaining three were promoted to Commander between 1814-16, and could all have been the man in charge. Unfortunately, all died between 1817-43, and it’s not likely much biographical information on either of them can be found.


Name	Lieut	Cmd	Died
MORGAN, John Fortescue	15 Sep 1806	12 Oct 1814	9 Dec 1843
MORGAN, Thomas	10 May 1809	16 Nov 1814	Apr 1843
MORGAN, Charles	15 Jun 1781	1 Jan 1816	1817
MORGAN, James (1)	2 Sep 1783	25 Apr 1827	1835

One would have to search the muster books for HMS Fawn to identify who the Lieutenant was.