HMS Delft (1797), formerly the Dutch ship Hercules captured in 1797 during the
Battle of Camperdown. She was sunk as a breakwater in 1822. Because Delft served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the
Naval General Service Medal, which the
Admiralty issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants.[1]
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