Vice-Admiral Sir John Edmund Commerell, KCB, VC, British naval officer Steam shovel 'The Nymph Salmacis'

'The Nymph Salmacis'

on 19 October 1783

an Irish village and a Senegalese village

Duc d'Orleans

St John's College

Vice-Admiral Sir John Edmund Commerell, KCB, VC, British naval officer Steam shovel 'The Nymph Salmacis'Vice Admiral Sir John Edmund Commerell, KCB, VC, British naval officer, 1883. Commerell won his Victoria Cross during the Crimean War. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (London, 1876 1883).